Other variations of the Pride flag include Genderfluid, Genderflexible and Genderqueer Pride flags for the Leather, Bear, and BDSM communities a Polysexual Pride flag Agender and Aromantic Pride flags and even a rarely-seen Straight Ally Pride Flag with a large rainbow triangle amidst black and white stripes. The Asexual Pride flag, created in 2010, has four stripes: Black to represent asexuality, grey for demisexuality, white for allies, and purple for community. A variation on the Poly flag turns the black stripe into a triangle and replaces the Pi symbol with a yellow stripe. The Pansexual Pride flag is comprised of pink (representing attraction to femmes), yellow (attraction to nonbinary people), and blue (attraction to masc people) stripes.Ī less widely adopted Polyamory Pride flag has a blue (represention openness), red (passion), and black (solidarity) stripe with a gold (emotional attachment) Pi symbol in the middle. As designed, the pink represents same-sex attraction, the blue represents other-sex attraction, and the thin purple stripe stands for the breadth of the gender spectrum. It has a pink block at the top, a thinner purple stripe, and then a blue block at the bottom. The Bisexual Pride flag has also seen common use for many years.
Lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and even leather groups created symbols for their communities, and over time came into more widespread use. But over the years, groups within the queer community felt the need to assert their presence as well. Like the other pride flags each colored stripe has a different meaning black means asexuality, grey means grey-asexuality (a grey area between asexuality. Over the years, the rainbow-striped Pride flag came to be thought of as the sole icon of Pride. “Gay” as a catch-all term for anything gender-nonconforming is a fast-vanishing vestige of patriarchy. Using a rainbow flag as a symbol of gay pride began in San Francisco but eventually became common at LGBTQ events. , the colors reflect the diversity of the LGBTQ community. Also known as the gay pride flag or LGBTQ pride flag. Today, Pride is much more inclusive of lesbians, bisexual people, and people who are trans or poly or asexual or queer. The rainbow flag is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ( LGBTQ) pride and social movements. Though it was often called the “Gay Pride Flag” at first, it’s now come to represent a much broader community than just gay men. Baker and a friend named Lynn Segerblom, also known as Faerie Argyle Rainbow, developed a rainbow version that had eight colors, with a hot pink stripe later removed because it was difficult to dye. There, he befriended Milk, who challenged him to create a symbol for what was then more commonly called the gay community. Baker had served in the Army, and moved to San Francisco following his honorable discharge. The history of the Pride flag can be traced back to Harvey Milk, the famous San Francisco city Supervisor, and his friend Gilbert Baker in the 1970s.
Here are the meanings behind the colors in the current pride flag: Red Life. The blue that replaced the indigo now symbolizes harmony. None of those symbols was particularly widespread in modern times, however. Baker dropped yet another stripe, which resulted in the six-stripe version of the flag we use most often todayred, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.