They were soon mass-produced and flown at Pride events around the country, and the rainbow flag has become a ubiquitous ...

Gilbert Baker created the original pride flag in 1978. Baker was urged by Harvey Milk to create a symbol for the LGBT community and he chose a flag, which he saw as the most powerful symbol of pride.

(CN) — An Iowa man fired for posting a comment on his employer’s intranet site condemning the rainbow pride flag as an “abomination to God ... Raymond Gruender and Michael Melloy, both George W. Bush ...