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The title song is the first recording of what was described in Newsday ? 3/3/99 as honoring "people who have passed away from anti-gay violence." The same piece characterized Rapp as "a long-time folkie and lesbian activist who uses music to get a message across." As author Jack Nichols wrote in the Gay Today 6/16/03 "?Flag and the Rainbow? evokes the spirit of an era that all fundamentalist religious loonies and Republican zealots despise. This cyclical spirit of the 1960s lives in Sandy Rapp's songs. It is certainly the spirit of the Stonewall... evolving into anthems such as Sandy Rapp herself has composed." The CD presents a host of catchy, issue-oriented originals, including 'Ballad Of Billy Baird,' which bios the reproductive rights pioneer. 'Roilin' Waters' and ?Ill, The Winds? decry nukes. An updated 'Everyone Was At Stonewall' chronicles the gay movement; and a new version of 'Remember Rose: A Song For Choice' protests the first fatality of the 1977 Medicaid-Abortion cutoff and features a cameo vocal by the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug. Another tune provides an intimate look into Bella?s remarkable Marlene Dietrich impressions. Other songs celebrate Mississippi?s Camp Sister Spirit; and ?Manhattan Cowgirl? salutes Eleanor Roosevelt biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook.