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He said Baker rejected advice to patent the rainbow flag design and never made a penny off it.īaker also designed flags for civic occasions including the inauguration of Dianne Feinstein, now California's senior U.S. The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond flew this rainbow flag at the request of a group of its employees to recognize gay pride month in June 2011. This item: ConversationPrints Gay Pride FIST Symbol Rainbow Flag Glossy Poster Picture Photo Print LGBT. The flag was initially eight colors, but it was cut to six because of the limited availability of fabrics, Jones said. "People looked up and faces lit up and, without any explanation, this was now our flag." "It was quite amazing to stand there and watch all these thousands of people turn off Market Street into San Francisco Civic Center Plaza and march beneath these giant flags that were flapping in the wind," Jones said. In an interview Saturday, Jones recalled the rainbow flag's first appearance at the 1978 gay pride parade. but I knew."īaker was part of a circle of San Francisco gay activists that included Harvey Milk, the city supervisor who was assassinated in 1978, and Cleve Jones, who created the Names Project AIDS memorial quilt in the 1980s. Satan is thumbing his nose at God, using one of God’s own creations the rainbow, as a symbol to provoke Him. Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of gay marriage came on a Friday the 6th day of the week, in June the 6th month of the year, and on the twenty-6th day of June. Baker said in a 2008 interview that he knew instantly from the way people reacted to the flag that it was "going to be something. There are six colored stripes on the gay pride flag.