On March 24th, 1998, Frank applied to the Gay Cowboy WebRing which had been founded on December 31, 1996. However, his page was about Gay Cowboys, and he thought he should have a flag more representative of the western life style.įrank developed a flag with a wood grained background, scanned a small rainbow colored cowboy boot from a bumper sticker, and placed it in the upper left corner. Having been building web pages as a volunteer at the National Park Service for a couple of years, he was not new to web work.Īt first Frank placed a copy of the gay rainbow flag on his site. On MaFrank Harrell (Cowboy Frank) (that's me folks) published his first personal web page.
This story doesn't have the community involvement or thoroughly thought out design elements of some of the other flags, but this is how it really happened.
