Lulu Miller

And they stitched them all together.

And Gilbert Baker was like, oh, I don't want to make this in my house.

I want to go make it in this queer community center because it's like the day it will be born.

And he didn't know it was going to catch on.

There were other flags, other things, but it caught on and I think really took on big power because there's only a few months later that Harvey Milk was assassinated.

And like he had been the one to request, you know, let's have these flags.

Let's have a parade.

So then it just it really took off.

And then, you know, and I think some people are like, and rainbows tacky.

I don't care.

But anyway.

And then it just continues to evolve.

And in 2017 in Philly, they added for a queer pride parade there, they added the black and brown stripes for LGBTQ people of color who had like are sometimes left out of the experience.

And then a year later, it became the progress pride flag, which you've probably seen, which has that like arrow, which also has white, blue, pink and black and brown stripes also for trans individuals, communities of color.

And I'm sure it will continue forever.

To evolve.

And it's still like, you know, again, we think of rainbows as like cheesy and happy, but it is this apparently Gilbert Baker, when he made it, he had been noticed a couple of years before had been the American Bicentennial.

It's been 1976.

And so there were American flags everywhere.

And he had been really thinking about flags and how they express like.