That's the moment when I knew exactly what kind of flag I would make." "We were all in a swirl of color and light," he writes. Later that week, while he and Jones were dancing to a band at the Cow Palace, Baker was impressed with the diversity of the crowd: hippies, bikers, punks, gay muscle boys, butch lesbians. I thought a gay nation should have a flag too, to proclaim its own idea of power." I thought of the vertical red, white, and blue tricolor from the French Revolution and how both flags owed their beginnings to a riot, a rebellion, or revolution. "I thought of the American flag with its thirteen stripes and thirteen stars, the colonies breaking away from England to form the United States. "As Artie implored, I looked at the flags flying on the various government buildings around the Civic Center," he continues.
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