The light blue and light pink are the traditional colors for baby girls and baby boys, respectively, while the white represents intersex, transitioning, or a neutral or undefined gender. Trans Pride Flag - Monica Helms, an openly transgender American woman, created the flag in 1999. The reboot is meant to be inclusive of queer people of color and trans people. Representation matters - especially for the most marginalized communities. This is a rebooted pride flag by Daniel Quasar. In some places, it may be unsafe to use these flags, and/or more culturally relevant symbols representing the LGBTIQ community may exist instead. It is also important to provide a disclaimer that by no means are LGBTIQ flags necessary to achieve progress in recognition and protection of the human rights of LGBTIQ people. As mentioned previously, new flags are constantly being conceptualized and used, so the ones mentioned here are subject to change. What follows is a non-exhaustive list of flags used by the LGBTIQ community and their allies. While others are constantly being conceptualized and created. Some have evolved, like the original Pride flag created in 1978 by Gilbert Baker and flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade. There have been many LGBTIQ flags over the years. They are a visible representation of identity that people use in celebration, in protest, or even as a casual adornment.
The white stripe completes the full sexual spectrum and also symbolises peace and union.Flags have always been an integral part of the LGBTIQ community. It surfaced on 12 February 2018 at the Love Fest carnival in São Paulo. A 9-striped flag, based on the original 8-striped one, has a white stripe in the middle. Several variants of the rainbow flag have been introduced and flown at “Pride Parades” since then. The flag now has (from the top) red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet and their closest Pantone® values are 185 C, 1375 C, 101 C, 356 C, 2736 C and 2415 C, respectively. The indigo (#400098) and turquoise (#00C0C0) from the original flag were merged into one blue stripe and hot pink (#FF69B6) was removed. The present day LGBTQ+ Pride Flag has only 6 colors which are placed in equal-sized horizontal stripes. This flag had 8 stripes (from the top) – hot pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo and violet which represented sex, life, healing, sunlight, nature, magic/art, serenity and spirit, respectively.
The original flag was designed by Gilbert Baker and was flown for the first time on 25 June 1978 at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. However, this was soon done away with because of the dark history associated with the symbol – it was used by the German fascist rule of the early 20 th century to segregate homosexuals. Further expansion has led to the inclusion of queer and the community which is now LGBTQ.īefore the LGBTQ rainbow flag came into existence, the community used a pink triangle symbol as their identity. It has been used since the 1990s and replaces the term ‘gay’, which on its own, did not describe the community correctly. LGBT stands for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender.