Gilbert Baker and the Rainbow Flag

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The rainbow flag is the most recognisable symbol of queer pride and community. Listen to the second of our Pride Month episodes to learn about the origins of the flag and the life of its designer, self-described “gay Betsy Ross”, Gilbert Baker. If you enjoy this episode, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queerous Fact. My name is Eli. I'm Jason. I'm Alice. I'm Irene.
0:05.5	And today we're talking about Gilbert Baker and his invention of the rainbow pride flag.
0:18.1	Before we get started, we have some content warnings for this episode.
0:21.8	There are brief mentions of periotypical homophobia existing, as well as brief mentions
0:26.7	of the Nazis and concentration camps.
0:29.2	All of these are incredibly brief.
0:30.6	This is probably as close to a content warning free episode that we'll have.
0:34.3	So, yay.
0:35.6	Yay!
0:35.9	We hope that you all had a wonderful first week of Pride.
0:39.8	This episode is a little short bonus episode that we're bringing out for Pride Month this year.
0:45.7	Also, this is the first time that the four of us have all been all together, apart from
0:49.7	for an announcement episode.
0:51.0	Not in life, just in podcast.
0:52.4	You're just in a podcast.
0:53.7	Yeah, we've never met.
0:54.8	We've never met.
0:56.6	But that's nice.
0:57.7	That's exciting.
0:58.6	Yeah.
0:58.9	We just also happened to be in the same place at the same time.
1:02.1	Yeah, we just recorded the announcement episode you heard last month and we were feeling.
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