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Danh ngôn của Gilbert Baker (Sứ mệnh: 2)

Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history - the academic word for flag making and heraldry.
Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible - to live in the truth, as I say - to get out of the lie.
The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful, all of the colors, even the colors you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colors. Our sexuality is all of the colors. We are all the genders, races, and ages.
A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people.
My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.
The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
Flags are about proclaiming power... that visibility is key to our success and to our justice.
We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
When I was young, they thought I was from outer space. I was the only gay person they probably knew, and they struggled with that. Everybody knew I was gay. They just didn't want to talk about it.
It's not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it's illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It's a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.