Although the symbolic use of bright colors has long been connected to queer culture, these flags, fittingly, are a highly visible, widerspread signal of queer identity compared to some of the slightly more covert LGBTQ+ symbols that preceded them. Today, there are dozens of LGBTQ+ flags representing just as many gender identities, sexualities and intersections of communities. Much like the communities they represent, these flags are in a constant state of evolution, expanding to better and more inclusively encompass every queer identity under the rainbow. In 1978, Gilbert Baker of San Francisco designed and made a flag with six stripes representing the six colors of the rainbow as a symbol of gay and lesbian. While this use of the rainbow flag originated in Northern California’s San Francisco Bay Area, the flag is now used worldwide. This is kind of a lot like the Bisexual flag because the two sexualities are similar.Ever since the first rainbow-hued LGBTQ flag was created in 1978, pride flags have been a colorful symbol of queer identity. The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBT community, as the flag is often used as a symbol of gay pride during LGBT rights marches. The yellow represents anyone else who aren’t male or female (I’ll talk more about those later.) The last one, blue, represents masculinity or male. Pansexual: The colors of this flag are pink, yellow, and blue. Finally the Purple represents the community as a whole. The white represents the Asexual people who do have sex. The gray represents the people who have little sexual desire. So they went with yellow and purple because those colors together represent “hermaphrodite”.Īsexual: black represents the absence of sexual desire. Intersex: When this flag was made, the person wanted to refrain from using pink or blue or “girl and boy colors”. Then the last color, white, represents everything in between. Then finally, the purple represents a mixture of the two.
While the red represents the least femininity or “girly”.īisexual: The pink represents girl. The pink stripe represents being very feminine or “girly”. Lesbian: The colors layering from levels of pink to white to red represent different levels of femininity.
I was not able to find a picture of this flag, but if it gets used enough then the rainbow flag will be able to solely represent everyone. In 1978, the rainbow became a symbol of even greater significance as a representation of gay pride when Gilbert Baker stitched the first pride flag in San Francisco. It’s like the lesbian flag but instead of different pinks, its different types of blues, representing masculinity. Because it employed colors that were stereotypical of the gender binary, that edition was problematic This. This modern gay men’s pride flag is a reimagining of a previous gay men’s pride flag with a variety of blue tones. Photograph by Mark Rennie, courtesy of the Gilbert Baker Foundation. A segment of the flag in the foreground, with the pink stripe at the top, was donated to the GLBT Historical Society in April 2021. It comes in a variety of green, blue, and purple hues. The two original eight-color rainbow flags flying at United Nations Plaza during San Francisco Gay Freedom Day 1978. The Gay male community uses this flag as theirs too for now, but I’ve been seeing a new gay flag going around. Another lesser-known pride flag is the gay men’s pride flag. Gay: The flags colors together represent the whole LGBT+ community. You’ll see these a lot in the community, so it’s best to know what some of them mean.
Here is a list of the pride flags and their meanings.