The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement by Margaret Cruikshank

Three years later and more than 16,000 kilometres from Midtown Manhattan, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) also acquired a mass-produced version of the rainbow flag. 5 The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Gilbert Baker, Rainbow Flag’, Art and Artists, accessed 1 Dec. In the extended label text for the flag, the department’s curators explained that its addition to MoMA’s collection celebrated the ‘accessibility and worldwide adoption of this humble masterpiece of design’. For more information, see: Michelle Millar Fisher, ‘Remembering Gilbert Baker, designer of the Rainbow Flag’, MoMA Stories, /remembering-gilbert-baker-designer-of-the-rainbow-flag-94ea801be826, accessed 10 Jan. Hodges case on same-sex marriage of 26 June 2015. The flag was a late addition to the exhibition, and an immediate response to the US Supreme Court’s verdict on the Obergefell v. When the flag was hung on 26 June 2015, it joined other ‘universal symbols’, like the symbol and the recycling symbol, in the collection based exhibition, This is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good (which opened on 14 February 2015). MoMA’s acquisitions committee unanimously approved the proposal on 4 June 2015.

4 Paola Antonelli and Michelle Millar Fisher proposed the rainbow flag for acquisition in late 2014. In a blog post announcing MoMA’s acquisition of a mass-produced version of the flag, Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, and Michelle Millar Fisher, Curatorial Assistant, described it as one of several ‘universal symbols’ recently collected by the Museum. On 26 June 2015, the rainbow flag was hung in the design galleries on the third floor of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, to celebrate the United States Supreme Court’s decision to legalise same-sex marriage nationwide (below). – Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York I think that’s why it’s endured.’ 3 Meg Slater, interview with Paola Antonelli, 9 Jan. ‘There is something innocent about the rainbow flag that gets under your skin and above your head. – Andy Campbell, Author of Queer x Design ‘The design that Baker conceived has very few peers in the history of LGBTIQ design.’ 2 Andy Campbell, Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, New York, 2019, p. – Gilbert Baker, Artist, designer and creator of the rainbow flag ‘What the rainbow has given our people is a thing that connects us.’ 1 Paola Antonelli & Michelle Millar Fisher, ‘MoMA acquires the Rainbow flag’, Inside/Out: A MoMA/MoMA PS1 Blog, accessed 9 Sep.

The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement by Margaret Cruikshank