Gilbert Baker presents President Barack Obama with an original, hand-dyed cotton rainbow flag on June 9, 2016

In his thank-you letter to Baker, President Obama affirmed, “I am proud to stand alongside the countless activists like you who spoke up and came out, blazed trails for others and pushed us closer to our founding ideal of equality for all. Because of this hard work, we now live in an America where all marriages and families are recognized as equal under the law.”