Quotes from Gilbert Baker

Our movement is evolving. The movement to liberate our sexuality as a human right, that's an ongoing struggle.

The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.

It's not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it's illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It's a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

The rainbow flag is beautiful because it's about love. The Confederate flag is ugly because it's about hate. It's pretty simple from the art level: beautiful versus ugly.

Flags are about proclaiming power... that visibility is key to our success and to our justice.

Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out of the lie.

Harvey Milk was a friend of mine, an important gay leader in San Francisco in the '70s, and he carried a really important message about how important it was to be visible, how important it was to come out, and that was the single most important thing we had to do.