Each representation wears one unique piece of cloth, a flag. They differ in shapes sometimes, they differ in symbols and what’s pretty obvious, they differ in colors… “A true flag cannot be designed — it has to be torn from the soul of the people.” — Unknown Gilbert Baker, a self-described “geeky kid from Kansas” came to San Francisco as an Army draftee In 1970. San Francisco has often been compared to Oz, but Baker didn’t want to click his heels and go back to Kansas. After an honorable discharge he stayed in San Francisco, free to pursue his dreams of being an artist. He learned to sew, because he couldn’t buy, he makes all the fabulous 70s clothes that he wanted. Baker’s life changed forever when he met Harvey Milk In 1974, who showed him “how action could create change.” Three years after they met, Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors – making him the first openly gay person to hold a high public office in a major American city. Milk, once know