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LGBTQ+ Pride Flags
In the LGBTQ+ community, we signify our pride with flags. With many other identities in the collective, there comes many unlike flags to know. We have collected all of the flags and a guide to learn about all of the other colors of our community’s rainbow. We know that this may not be all of the flags that represent our people, but we will update the page as modern flags become popular!
Explore the flag collection below! Observe a flag's name by hovering or clicking on the flag.
Umbrella Flags
Gilbert Baker Pride Flag
Traditional Pride Flag
Philadelphia Pride Flag
Progress Pride Flag
Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag
Queer Pride Flag
The original Pride Flag was created in 1978 after activist Harvey Milk asked artist Gilbert Baker to design a symbol of gay pride. Each color represents a unlike part of the Gay community: hot pink represents sex, red symbolizes animation, orange stands for healing, yellow equals sunlight, emerald stands for nature, turquoise symbolizes magic and art, indigo represents serenity, while violet symbolizes the liveliness of LGBTQ+ people.
After the assass
You might be familiar with the six-colored rainbow flag that is widely used to represent the LGBTQ+ community. But did you comprehend that this is a relatively unused rendition of the original?
The original flag (shown here) was designed by activist, veteran, drag queen, and artist, Gilbert Baker, and made its debut at the San Francisco Gay and Queer woman Freedom Day Pride in 1978. He was inspired by the Rolling Stones song She’s a Rainbow, and the 1960s hippies movement, assigning each paint with a specific meaning:
Pink: Sex (later removed)
Red: Life
Orange: Healing
Yellow: Sunlight
Green: Nature
Turquoise: Magic (later removed)
Indigo: Serenity
Violet: Spirit
The evolution to the six-colored flag used today happened out of practicality.
After the parade in 1978, demand for the Pride Flag increased, but the hot pink fabric was difficult to find in big quantities. Then, the Paramount Flag Business started making a version out of the standard rainbow colors to aid meet demand, and a seven-color identity festival flag was the new norm.
A year later, the flag evolved once more…
An introduction to Diverse flags
We have deposit together a list of some of the LGBTQ+ flags, where they came from and what they represent.
Keep reading to learn about the history of the flags and more.
Why are there different flags in the LGBTQ+ community?
There are numerous flags used in the LGBTQ+ community to represent various sexual orientations and preferences, gender identities, love-related orientation, and subcultures.
It embodies the many aspects of the LGBTQ+ community by having different flags that represent other things.
LGBTQ+ flags, love country flags, all have meaning. Each colour represents and means something different.
The history of the original LGBT flag
The “original” LGBT flag, also known as the rainbow flag or the identity festival flag, is a six-coloured striped flag with red, orange, yellow, green, navy, and violet.
The LGBT rainbow flag history dates back to 1978, when Gilbert Baker designed it, but it has since been modified.
Gilbert Baker became committed in the LGBT flag’s creation after meeting influential queer leader Harvey Milk, who challenged Baker to create a representative flag for the community.
Prior to the creation of the pride flag, the pink trian
Flags of the LGBTIQ Community
Flags have always been an integral part of the LGBTIQ+ movement. They are a apparent representation meant to rejoice progress, advocate for advocacy, and amplify the insist and drive for collective action. There have been many LGBTIQ+ flags over the years. Some possess evolved, while others are constantly being conceptualized and created.
Rainbow Flag
Created in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, the iconic Pride Rainbow flag originally had eight stripes. The colors included pink to represent sexuality, red for healing, yellow for sun, green for serenity with nature, turquoise for art, indigo for unity, and violet for essence. In the years since, the flag now has six colors. It no longer has a pink stripe, and the turquoise and indigo stripes were replaced with royal blue.
Progress Pride Flag
Created in 2018 by nonbinary creator Daniel Quasar, the Progress Pride flag is based on the iconic 1978 rainbow flag. With stripes of black and brown to represent marginalized LGBTIQ+ people of color and the triad of sky, pink, and white from the trans flag, the design represents diversity and inclusion.
Trans Flag
Conceived by Monica Helms, an
The Progress Pride flag was developed in 2018 by non-binary American artist and designer Daniel Quasar (who uses xe/xyr pronouns). Based on the iconic rainbow flag from 1978, the redesign celebrates the diversity of the LGBTQ society and calls for a more inclusive society. In 2020, the V&A acquired a bespoke applique version of the Progress Event flag that can be seen on display in the Design 1900 – Now gallery.
'Progress' is a reinterpretation of multiple iterations of the pride flag. The original 'rainbow flag' was created by Gilbert Baker in 1978 to celebrate members of the gay and lesbian political movement. It comprised eight coloured stripes stacked on top of each other to evoke a rainbow, a symbol of expect. Baker assigned a specific meaning to each colour: pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for magic, indigo for serenity and violet for spirit. A year later the pink and turquoise stripes were dropped owing to a shortage of pink fabric at the time and legibility concerns, resulting in the six-colour rainbow flag most commonly used in the first decades of the 21st century.
Baker's flag was embra