Author: BAKER, GILBERT
Title: Rainbow Warrior My Life in Color
Description: Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2019. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 1641601507. B&W and Color; 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.0 inches; 256 pages; Hard cover is black w/ silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated with color and b/w pictures. The never-published memoir of the visual artist and social justice activist who created the Rainbow Flag, which became an international emblem of the modern LGBTQ+ movement". Baker, 1951-2017], first created the Rainbow Flag with a collective in 1978. He refused to trademark it, seeing it as a symbol that was for the LGBT community. [1] In 1979, Baker began work at Paramount Flag Company in San Francisco....In 2003, to commemorate the Rainbow Flag's 25th anniversary, Baker created a Rainbow Flag that stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean in Key West. After the commemoration, he sent sections of this flag to more than 100 cities around the world. Due to his creation of the rainbow flag, Baker often used the drag queen name "Busty Ross", alluding to Betsy Ross.. New in New dust jacket .

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