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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | You may have never heard the name Gilbert Baker before, but you certainly have seen their artwork. |
0:11.0 | Way back in 1978, he designed what we now know as the Pride Flag. |
0:16.0 | And in the summer months, his design is basically inescapable. |
0:20.0 | It hangs off buildings, covers t-shirts, stars and commercials, it's everywhere. |
0:27.0 | But there's one building in San Francisco's Castro district, |
0:30.0 | for pride season is all year long. |
0:33.0 | We get walking tours that come by and they look at the plaque about Gilbert. |
0:36.0 | This is John Inck whistle. |
0:38.0 | He was a long-time friend of Gilbert. |
0:40.0 | And they stop and take pictures of the flag and |
0:43.0 | Instagram it and all the time night and day people pose in front of that flag. |
0:49.0 | It's a it's a powerful symbol. |
0:51.0 | In 2017 artist April Berger was commissioned to transform the garage doors of a gray |
0:57.7 | three-story house into a gorgeous wavy rainbow mural as a tribute to Gilbert and his flag design. |
1:04.0 | It's stunningly eye-catching. Visitors are constantly stopping and staring at it. |
1:09.2 | I happen to be traveling through the Bay Area and wanted to stop by and see it for myself. |
1:14.8 | I'm in the historic Castro District of San Francisco. |
1:21.6 | I just turned right on 17th Street. |
1:24.0 | I'm in front of the house. |
1:26.0 | In front of the mural. |
1:28.0 | If you look up, there's a pride flag. |
1:31.0 | But what I found there was more than just a pretty painting. |
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