In an interview Saturday, Jones recalled the rainbow flag's first appearance at the 1978 gay pride parade. but I knew.'īaker was part of a circle of San Francisco gay activists that included Harvey Milk, the city supervisor who was assassinated in 1978, and Cleve Jones, who created the Names Project AIDS memorial quilt in the 1980s. Baker said in a 2008 interview that he knew instantly from the way people reacted to the flag that it was 'going to be something.
