“What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us. I can go to another country, and if I see a rainbow flag, I feel like that’s someone who is a kindred spirit or [that it’s] a safe place to go.” Hand-stitched by 30 volunteers, Gilbert Baker’s Rainbow Flag was first unfurled on June 25, 1978, at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade. In 2015, when the flag design entered MoMA’s collection, we talked to Baker (who died in 2017) about his creation. Read the full interview → https://mo.ma/3H3Y0F4