CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Some history today in San Francisco:



Join the GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, California State Senator Scott Wiener, San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and community leaders for the unveiling of the only known remnant of the original rainbow flags that first flew in San Francisco in 1978.

In April 2021, the GLBT Historical Society received an archival donation of an extraordinary, unique piece of history that we are unveiling during the Pride season: a fragment of one of the two monumental rainbow flags first raised on June 25, 1978 in San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

Displaying the original design’s eight colored stripes, it was created by Gilbert Baker and hand-stitched and dyed with the help of volunteers and friends, including Lynn Segerblom (Faerie Argyle Rainbow), James McNamara, Glenne McElhinney, Joe Duran and Paul Langlotz.

Thought to have been lost for over 40 years, the fragment was recently rediscovered and is the only known surviving remnant of the two inaugural rainbow flags.