The colors represent unique aspects of life, namely: pink for sex, red for. It is this six-colored flag that has spread across the nation and is universally known and recognized as a symbol of gay pride & diversity. The colors of the flag were designed to symbolize: life (red), healing (orange), sunlight (yellow), nature (green), harmony (blue), and spirit (purple/violet).Įach of the parts of the LGBTQ community also have flags independent of the rainbow one. Thirty volunteers hand-dyed and stitched the first two pride flags for the parade. The following year, Baker attempted to have it mass produced, but discovered that his original eight colors could not be used the hot pink was removed, and the indigo was replaced by royal blue.įollowing the assassination of Harvey Milk, the San Francisco Pride Committee chose the flag to honor Milk and opted to remove the turquoise so that the flag could be evenly divided on the street along the parade route, with 3 colors on ones side and 3 on the other. 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. Blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (Straight).
The flag originally had eight colored stripes, whose meaning is describe above, and was premiered at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade that year. Then finally, the purple represents a mixture of the two. or LGBTQ pride flag, is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and. Pansexual people describe the flag as showing the attraction to men with the blue stripe, women with the pink and people of other genders with the yellow. The rainbow flag was originally designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, who dyed and sewed the fabric himself.