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The rainbow flag is a worldwide symbol of the LGBT 

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community, but it's birthplace is in San Francisco and 

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it's creation is thanks to a man named Gilbert Baker. 

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Baker moved to San Francisco as an Army draftee in 

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1970. It was there that he became acquainted with 

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Harvey Milk and they gay rights movement. Gay rights 

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now. 

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After sewing many banners for gay events and 

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marches, the San Francisco Gay and **** Pride Parade 

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commissioned him to design a symbol that could be 

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used for years to come. And this is what Baker came 

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up with the original rainbow flag. The rainbow is a 

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beautiful part of nature. All of the colors and even the 

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colors you can't see. So that really fit us as a people 

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because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of 

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the colors, where all the genders, races and ages. 

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Each color represents something different Pink for sex, 

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red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, 

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green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for 

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harmony, and violet for the human spirit. The flag 

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later evolved to have six stripes. Turquoise was 

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swapped for blue and pink and indigo were taken out. 

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And decades later, the flag can still be seen linked 

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proudly from nearly every pride parade and march 

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around the world.