#GilbertBaker, known as the creator of the #rainbowflag, landed on the idea of a flag as an appropriate symbol to proclaim power for his "tribe," and a rainbow to represent his community's diversity. This tweet was posted on April 25, 2018.
Happy #ComingOutDay! The creator of the rainbow flag, Gilbert Baker, worked tirelessly to ensure the #rainbowflag would become a powerful and enduring symbol of pride and inclusion that transcended languages and borders, gender, and race. #ALegacyofPrideThis tweet was posted on October 11, 2018.
Happy #Pride Weekend!
Let’s flashback to 2018, when we presented "A Legacy of Pride: Gilbert Baker and the 40th Anniversary of the #Rainbow Flag,” which featured one of the final creations from Baker, who sowed the first rainbow flag for SF Pride in 1978. https://t.co/WPVjvz0HKF This tweet was posted on June 24, 2022.
In 1994, Gilbert Baker, the original creator of the #rainbowflag and a team of volunteers created a mile-long rainbow flag for the 25th Anniversary of the 1969 #Stonewall riots. The flag was carried by 5,000 people on First Avenue in New York City. #ALegacyOfPrideThis tweet was posted on September 19, 2018.
In the late 1960s, Pan American World Airways commissioned renowned psychedelic artist @Peter_Max to create a promotional poster that showed the new Boeing 747 taking off through rainbow rays of the solar system. Do you have a favorite airline advertisement? #WidebodyAVThis tweet was posted on February 10, 2020.
Irises, hydrangeas, chrysanthemums, and wild dahlias are featured in rich deep shades of the rainbow. See “Pond in Golden Gate Park,” “Garden in San Andreas Valley,” & “Garden Outside Gate” by #MarkAdams, on display, pre-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/LXKlwQ178c #PublicArtThis tweet was posted on October 27, 2022.
Los-Angeles-based filmmaker Ryan Maxey’s How to Make a Rainbow documents a young daughter’s unconditional love for her transgender mother over the course of two challenging years. #VideoArtsSFO#HowtoMakeaRainbow#Pride https://t.co/UtjjeyWz0IThis tweet was posted on June 15, 2023.
RT @flySFO: 🌈✈️ Somewhere over the rainbow... Have you seen one above #SFO?
📸 Alper Sarikasap This tweet was posted on September 27, 2019.
RT @panamhistory: 03-05-1949, a #PanAm 1st: B-377 Stratocruiser Clipper Rainbow (N1025V) tops record, SF to DC."The America’s 6-hour and 22…This tweet was posted on March 05, 2018.
This week on #SFOMat40: In 2018, we presented “A Legacy of Pride: Gilbert Baker and the 40th Anniversary of the Rainbow Flag” featuring a rainbow flag sewn by Gilbert Baker, the original designer of what has now become the universal symbol of queer pride. #TBTSFOM#MuseumFromHomeThis tweet was posted on July 09, 2020.
To others, the word "home" may be a feeling or sensation, either well-known or sought after. Home can be a place of solitude and introspection, or one of engagement with family and community. #PhotoAllianceHome
Rainbow, Vallejo, California 2017
Amanda Boe (b. 1978) This tweet was posted on May 13, 2018.
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Harvey Milk at Castro Camera; c. 1976
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Castro Camera with rainbow in the background; 1976
Photograph by Harvey Milk (1930–78)
Both: courtesy of the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, @SFPublicLibraryThis tweet was posted on August 01, 2022.
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pocket calendar: Pan American World Airways; 1967
Gift of the Captain John B. Russell Family
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menu: Pan American World Airways, Rainbow (economy) class; 1962
In memory of Jane Anne Thoe-Meyer
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https://t.co/BXzuQvRIhcThis tweet was posted on March 07, 2023.