Obama’s Gay-Marriage Announcement
May 11, 2012
The New Yorker
“I am honored to be doing this cover. It’s a celebratory moment for our country, and that’s what I tried to capture. (I don’t especially like those rainbow colors, but they are what they are—I had to use them.) I wanted to celebrate the bravery of the President’s statement—a statement long overdue—but all the more appreciated in this political year. We are on the right side of history.”
— Bob Staake, the artist who created “Spectrum of Light,” the cover of next week’s issue.