“I knew how to sew—as I said, it came from being the drag queen that couldn’t afford the clothes I liked so I had to make them all. That translated, because I was in San Francisco in the early ’70s, into being the guy that would make banners for protest marches. I was in the army and got out in 1972 and that became my role, if you will. My craft became my activism.”
–Gilbert Baker

Submitted by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, and Director, Research & Development; Andrew Gardner, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design; and Roxana Marcoci, Senior Curator, Department of Photography