General
📛 Flag name
gay pride flag
📝 Identity Description
Traditional symbol of the LGBTQ+ movement. It represents people who identify as homosexual as well as the queer community as a whole.
🔙 Origin
📜 Flag History
No flag history found.
🎨 Flag History and Alterations
Original Gay Pride Flag (1978)
The original version of the flag included two aditional stripes for sexuality (pink) and magic and art (turqoise).
Philadelphia Pride Flag (2017)
In 2017 the City of Philadelphia decided to use a varient of the rainbow flag to namingly include BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) in an attempt to make the flag more inclusive.
🖌️ Creator
Gilbert Baker in San Francisco
📅 Creation date
1979
🎨 Color palette
🏷️ Categories
📌 Keywords
- gay
- queer
- rainbow
- pride
- CSD
- 🏳️🌈
- 🌈
- ⚣
- queer
- LGBTQ*+
- Stonewall
- valid
Details
🎨 Color meanings
- red#FC0006
life
- orange#FDA507
healing
- yellow#FFFF0B
sunlight
- green#118301
nature
- blue#0000FF
harmony
- purple#7E0080
spirit
🔎 Sources
- 📅 2019.10.09 | Wiki Commons - sexual identity symbols
- 📅 2019.10.09 | Pride.com - queer flag guide
- 📅 2019.10.09 | Matthews place on Medium - lgtbq symbols
- 📅 2020.06.28 | phillymag.com - Philadelphia Pride Flag