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.

the Pride flag is at the forefront. It’s impossible to think of Pride Month without imagining the iconic rainbow Pride flag.

The fired employee called the rainbow a “Judeo-Christian symbol of the scriptural covenant between ... a comment on his employer’s intranet site condemning the rainbow pride flag as an “abomination to ...