Earlier this month, the GLBT Historical Society Museum unveiled a glass case containing a rare artifact: a segment of the original rainbow gay pride flag, its colors as vibrant as ever. June 2021 Smithsonian Magazine article Long-Lost Fragment of First Rainbow Pride Flag Resurfaces After Four Decades The brilliantly colored banner�now on view in San Francisco�flew on 'Gay Freedom Day' in 1978Ī priceless piece of queer history has returned home to San Francisco, reports Ezra David Romero for KQED. Keywords: rainbow flag | gay pride | baker (gilbert) | steve (tyson) | international congress of flag makers | flag of the race | stripes: 8 | stripes: 7 | stripes: 6 | stripes: 5 | This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website History of the Gay Pride / Rainbow Flag Sexural Orientation Flags