To celebrate the start of Pride Month in early June, the hand-stitched and dyed 28ft-long banner, which has become an important symbol of queer identity, has been permanently installed in the museum.
A segment of the original rainbow flag, designed and created by the late artist Gilbert Baker for the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade in June 1978 and thought to be lost since then, was recently rediscovered and donated to the city’s GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archives.
