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It was sewn in Key West by Gilbert Baker, the San Francisco artist who created the original rainbow flag in 1978, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his internationally recognized LGBTQ banner's unveiling. To construct the Key West flag, Gilbert (whose friends called him "the gay Betsy Ross") spent three months on the island.


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KEY WEST, Florida Keys โ€” A portion of 2,000 flag carriers reach the harbor in Key West, Fla., Sunday, June 15, 2003, as they dip one end of a 1 1/4-mile-long rainbow flag in the Gulf of Mexico. The mammoth banner, that stretched from the Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean (top of photo) was created by Gilbert Baker and commemorated the 25th.


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Key West Pride Parade: Sunday, 5-7 p.m. on Duval Street.The big parade returns for the first time since 2019. 4/17/10 --- A 100-foot piece of the Key West Rainbow Flag is paraded along Ocean Drive.


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The globally recognized Key West Pride event is scheduled to take place from Wednesday through Sunday, June 7-11, 2023. This year, the festival marks the 20th "birthday" of Key West's iconic 1.25-mile sea-to-sea rainbow flag.


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Film Industry Recommended for you Visitors can celebrate diversity and mark the 20th "birthday" of Key West's famed 1.25-mile sea-to-sea rainbow flag with a three-night laser light show during Key West Pride 2023, scheduled Wednesday


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June 12, 2023 / 7:45 AM EDT / CBS Miami KEY WEST - A Sunday afternoon Key West Pride Parade and three nights of a rainbow of light illuminating the sky above Key West's Duval Street.


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A mile-long rainbow flag lit up the sky above Key West's Duval Street this weekend in honor of Pride 2023. The laser-light flag commemorated the original Pride flag sewn in Key West two decades.


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Europe/Amsterdam World's Longest Rainbow Flag Brought Recognition of Key West's Diversity During Key West Pride in 2003, a 1.25-mile-long rainbow flag sewn by Gilbert Baker, the creator of the original rainbow flag, was unfurled to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the banner's debut.


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Without doubt, the use and recognition of the Rainbow Flag is now worldwide and Key West's very own 25-foot-long Section 93 even made a momentous appearance at last year's National Pride March on Washington, D.C., which took place on June 11, 2017.


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A rainbow flag can now be seen on the 523-foot-long Vandenberg, the second-largest ship in the world to be sunk as an artificial reef. Lying about seven miles off Key West, the "Vandy" draws divers from around the world. and its rainbow flag is believed to be the first one ever displayed on an artificial reef.


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The Key West Pride Parade in Florida celebrated the 20th anniversary of the unfurling of a 1.25-mile-long rainbow flag, which had been displayed along the city's Duval Street from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean during Pride 2003.


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Volunteers reach the Atlantic Ocean June 15, 2003, carrying a 1.25-mile-long rainbow flag down Duval Street in Key West. The mammoth banner was constructed by Gilbert Baker, creator of the original rainbow flag, and unfurled during the island's 2003 Pride festivities. (Photo by Andy Newman, Florida Keys News Bureau)


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Key West's Sea-to-Sea Rainbow Flag stretched along the 1.25-mile length of Duval Street in June 2003, weighed 6,000 pounds and involved 2,000 volunteers to create, then carry it from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean.


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On June 15, 2003, pride revelers unfurled a 1.25-mile long pride flag from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, earning it the name the "Sea-to-Sea Rainbow Flag." Baker and several volunteers spent months sewing the enormous flag.


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On June 15, 2003, volunteers reach the Atlantic Ocean carrying a 1.25-mile-long rainbow flag down Duval Street in Key West. The mammoth banner was created by Gilbert Baker, who developed the flag.