“My parents and I didn’t speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.”— Gilbert Baker, miamiherald.comTagged: Homophobia, Coming out
“[Gay] people were psychopaths, criminals. I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen.”— Gilbert Baker, miamiherald.comTagged: Psychopaths, Criminals, Electroshock Therapy, Homophobia
“We took the gay pride parade with 50,000 people to 500,000. Anita Bryant had the effect of galvanizing the whole gay movement. She was somebody whom everybody could hate. She was easy to hate.”— Gilbert Baker, miamiherald.comTagged: Anita Bryant, Gay Pride Parade, Homophobia, Hate
“It works because the song is beautiful. The lyrics are about the longing to be free.”— Gilbert Baker, miamiherald.comTagged: Songs, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Freedom
“Anita Bryant is an important figure in gay history because she enraged a generation of people who got active.”— Gilbert Baker, miamiherald.comTagged: Anita Bryant, Gay History, Homophobia