for the 25th anniversary of the stonewall riots in 1994, flag creator baker, aka sister chanel 2001 of the sisters of perpetual indulgence, was commissioned to create the world's largest rainbow flag. the mile-long flag, dubbed “raise the rainbow”, took months of planning and teams of volunteers to coordinate every aspect. the flag utilized the basic six colors and measured wide. after the march, foot-wide () sections of the flag were given to individual sponsors after the event had ended. additional large sections of the flag were sent with activists and used in pride parades and lgbtq marches worldwide. one large section was later taken to shanghai pride in 2014 by a small contingent of san francisco sisters of perpetual indulgence, and documented in the film “stilettos for shanghai”. the "guinness book of world records" confirmed it as the world's largest flag.