Rainbow warrior : my life in color /
Baker, Gilbert, 1951-2017,
Rainbow warrior : my life in color / Gilbert Baker. - xiv, 232 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Foreword / by Dustin Lance Black -- A bolt of lightning -- Dreaming of a life over the rainbow -- I am not a homosexual -- A door opens -- Stitching a rainbow -- Victory and backlash -- Raining on my parade -- Life at the Clown Hotel -- The birth of Sister Chanel 2001 -- Bobbi took off his socks -- Working for the enemy -- Stoning the Pope -- Rock bottom and rebel rebirth -- Pink Jesus and the holy war -- Spreading my wings -- Dorothy goes to Gotham -- Defending the rainbow -- Russians, bobbins, flashbulbs, and tears -- The winter of my discontent -- Clash of the divas -- An affair to remember, a night to forget -- Last shift at the sequin mine -- A bump in the road -- The chiffon rebellion -- A day in court, a night at Stonewall -- A magician, a mile of scarf, and a pair of scissors -- The hatchet is buried -- Invisible, with liberty and justice for all -- Epilogue: Gilbert Baker's later years / by Charley Beal.
"The never-published memoir of the visual artist and social justice activist who created the Rainbow Flag, which became an international emblem of the modern LGBTQ+ movement"--
9781641601504 1641601507
2018061304
Baker, Gilbert, 1951-2017.
Gay activists--United States--Biography.
Artists--United States--Biography.
Gay liberation movement--History.--United States
Flags--History.--United States
Rainbows in art.
Autobiographies.
Rainbow warrior : my life in color / Gilbert Baker. - xiv, 232 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Foreword / by Dustin Lance Black -- A bolt of lightning -- Dreaming of a life over the rainbow -- I am not a homosexual -- A door opens -- Stitching a rainbow -- Victory and backlash -- Raining on my parade -- Life at the Clown Hotel -- The birth of Sister Chanel 2001 -- Bobbi took off his socks -- Working for the enemy -- Stoning the Pope -- Rock bottom and rebel rebirth -- Pink Jesus and the holy war -- Spreading my wings -- Dorothy goes to Gotham -- Defending the rainbow -- Russians, bobbins, flashbulbs, and tears -- The winter of my discontent -- Clash of the divas -- An affair to remember, a night to forget -- Last shift at the sequin mine -- A bump in the road -- The chiffon rebellion -- A day in court, a night at Stonewall -- A magician, a mile of scarf, and a pair of scissors -- The hatchet is buried -- Invisible, with liberty and justice for all -- Epilogue: Gilbert Baker's later years / by Charley Beal.
"The never-published memoir of the visual artist and social justice activist who created the Rainbow Flag, which became an international emblem of the modern LGBTQ+ movement"--
9781641601504 1641601507
2018061304
Baker, Gilbert, 1951-2017.
Gay activists--United States--Biography.
Artists--United States--Biography.
Gay liberation movement--History.--United States
Flags--History.--United States
Rainbows in art.
Autobiographies.