I thought a gay nation should have a flag… to proclaim its own idea of power. As a community, both local and international, gay people were in the midst of an upheaval, a battle for equal rights, a shift in status where we were now demanding power, taking it. This was our new revolution: a tribal, individualistic, and collective vision.
– An excerpt from the memoir of the late Gilbert Baker, who created the rainbow flag, which will be published next year.