It is worth noting that it also shows an ordinary rainbow flag, hoisted on a building in background - indeed, most rainbow flags used at the event were such, as revealed by the selection of photos from This photo has been much reproduced on the Web, like The pattern (top-down) is: blue, violet, red, orange, yellow, green. One of the best known examples is from the Gay Pride flags sometimes have the rainbow colors in "unordered" pattern - that is, not following the order in which they naturally appear within the rainbow. Image by Tomislav Todorović, 5 October 2014 Most of colors were in rather dark shades, yellow and red being particularly conspicuous in that regard. There, the orange stripe was omitted, while the other colors remained in unchanged order, with purple at the hoist and red at the fly. Image by Tomislav Todorović, 23 August 2019Ī version with five stripes arranged vertically was used in Australia, at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, on 7 March 2015. Another photo, which gives only an incomplete view, can be found here. The photo of this flag can be found here. This flag was used at the 6th Kerala Queer Pride, which took place at Thiruvananthapuram on 11 July 2015. Image by Tomislav Todorović, 25 August 2018Īnother variant with five stripes omits the violet stripe, while the order of others remains unchanged, with blue (lighter than usual) at the top and red at the bottom. The reason for this is unclear, since the usual six-striped rainbow flag is not unknown in India, as some of the above sources reveal. Image by Tomislav Todorović, 26 June 2015Īt least one of the flags seen in Mumbai, India, on 16 August 2009 did replace red and orange stripes with a single orange-red stripe, while keeping the unusual order of other colors, as shown here.
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As Pride points out, a plethora of other flags were designed to represent different groups within the LGBTQIA+ community.Gay Pride/Rainbow Flag - Variations with order and number of stripes Today, there are even more pride flags out there. Here are the meanings behind the colors in the current pride flag: The blue that replaced the indigo now symbolizes harmony.
Baker dropped yet another stripe, which resulted in the six-stripe version of the flag we use most often today-red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. According to Baker's estate, that was because when it was hung vertically from the lamp posts of San Francisco's Market Street, the center stripe (turquoise) was obscured by the similarly-colored lamp post itself. As excerpted on the website for his estate, Gilbert's memoir, Rainbow Warrior, includes his memory of deciding to make the rainbow flag: The trio encouraged Baker to create a positive emblem for the LGBTQIA+ community.īaker agreed and he looked to his community for inspiration, specifically those dancing at San Francisco's music venue Winterland Ballroom one night. In the late '70s, Baker was living in San Francisco when he met writer Cleve Jones, filmmaker Artie Bressan, and rising activist Harvey Milk. The First Rainbow FlagĮnter: Gilbert Baker, the man who would create the first rainbow pride flag. Still, activists recognized the need for a more empowering symbol. "Gay people wear the pink triangle today as a reminder of the past and a pledge that history will not repeat itself," read one 1977 letter to the editor in Time. In the late 1970s, the pink triangle was somewhat reclaimed by the gay community. Throughout the Holocaust, the Nazis forced those whom they labeled as gay to wear inverted pink triangle badges, just as they forced Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David. This triangle, however, had a loaded, anti-gay history. Before the rainbow pride flag was created, there was another symbol for the LGBTQIA+ community: a pink triangle.