Gilbert Baker, an artist and activist credited with creating the LGBT community’s iconic rainbow flag, died Thursday night in his sleep at his home in New York City. He was 65. Baker ...

KRISTIN SCHWAB, BYLINE: The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan is bursting with famous work - Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol. Among those is a name you might not recognize - Gilbert Baker.

Also in the city during that time, Cleve's roommate and best friend, artist Gilbert Baker. "He has these big eyes, and big ideas and big hair and big dresses," chuckled Jones. "He was like this ...

Artist Gilbert Baker, designer of the Rainbow Flag, is draped with the flag while protesting at the St. Patrick's Day parade, Monday, March 17, 2014 in New York. Baker died Friday. Mark Lennihan ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. It will be the centerpiece of the exhibition “Performance, Protest and Politics: The Art of Gilbert Baker.” In a joint statement, Charley Beal ...

“He was a genius at political theater, at political art,” Jeff Sheehy ... But he was relentless.” Gilbert Baker was born June 2, 1951, in Chanute, Kan., and graduated from high school ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

And it exists thanks to an artist from small-town Kansas. Gilbert Baker was an artist, activist and army medic born in Chanute, Kansas, and raised in Parsons, both in the southeast corner of the ...

First Lady of the Castro” Donna Sachet welcomed guests to the unveiling at Napa Valley College on Friday, May 9, 2025, of the ...

Gilbert Baker created the rainbow flag (originally with eight colors, now six) in San Francisco in 1978 as a visual representation of gay pride.

Gilbert Baker, the designer of the iconic rainbow ... “Gilbert was a trailblazer for LGBT rights, a powerful artist and a true friend to all who knew him. Our thoughts are with his friends ...

Gilbert Baker, the artist and civil rights activist who created the iconic rainbow symbol for the gay rights movement, died of natural causes in New York City Friday. He was 65. Baker sewed the ...