Savage Lovecast Episode 951

435.169 - 460.98 Dan Savage

Somewhere Over the Rainbow was already the gay national anthem in 1967, and the rainbow was already a symbol. The man who designed the rainbow flag in 1978, Gilbert Baker, insists he wasn't inspired by Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, but I don't believe him. Gay men in the late 70s were collectively going through one of our butchered-up, mask-for-mask, straight-acting phases.