The design features a black and brown stripe at the top to represent people of colour. Otherwise known as the Rainbow POC (People of Colour) flag, the Philadelphia Pride Flag was designed by the city of Philadelphia and unveiled in 2017 at the city's pride celebration. More recently, alternative designs have been created to represent specific communities or intersectional identities.These are a great option if you want to signal your allyship to a specific group. It’s a design that is now so ubiquitous, it’s shorthand for pride and allyship. If you’re unsure about which flag to use, the original rainbow flag works great.
The hot pink and indigo stripes were soon removed to simplify the flag and make it easier to create and wear during pride rallies and marches. From top to bottom, the stripes represented hot pink (for sex), red (for life), orange (for healing), yellow (for sunlight), green (for nature), indigo (for art/harmony), and violet (for spirit). The flag originally featured eight stripes, each of which represented something different. The original rainbow pride flag was designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, an openly gay artist and activist. This rainbow flag serves to signal pride - or allyship - to represent the entire LGBTQIA+ community. You’ll recognise this flag as the “original” rainbow pride flag. Here’s a run down of the most popular flags and what they mean today. More recently, variations of the rainbow flag have become popular, and it can be difficult to know when to use each variation, or even which is the “correct” one to use. Designed for one parade in 1978, it's now one of the most recognized symbols in the world.The rainbow flag was created as a symbol of LGBTQIA+ pride and identity, and has since been used by millions of people around the world to signal safety, allyship and inclusion. The LGBT pride version of the flag designed by Gilbert Baker has become the most famous of the rainbow flags. And in Peru and Bolivia, the rainbow "Flag of Cusco" is a symbol of the indigenous Inca people. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast based in Birobidzhan, a sort of satellite government of Russia located on the Chinese border in Birobidzhan, uses a rainbow flag as its own symbol. In Italy, it's used as a symbol of peace, often with the word "PACE" written in white across the flag's stripes. In 2001, one version added a black stripe for AIDs awareness.Īside from LGBT pride, rainbow flags have other historic and political meanings that persist today. One version unfurled in Philadelphia this year added black and brown, for racial inclusivity. The flag has been modified in different places at different times. The White House illuminated in rainbow colors after 2015's Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage. Judy Garland, the star of "The Wizard of Oz," has a large following as a gay symbol, and is famous for singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the movie. The rainbow also has some pop culture significance for the LGBT community. The rainbow is so perfect because it really fits our diversity in terms of race, gender, ages, all of those things." We needed something beautiful, something from us. It came from such a horrible place of murder and holocaust and Hitler. "It was necessary to have the Rainbow Flag because up until that we had the pink triangle from the Nazis - it was the symbol that they would use. The rainbow flag was a way of taking these various colors and turning them into a coherent symbol, reclaimed by the LGBT community. During the Holocaust, Nazis forced gay men to wear pink triangles as a symbol of sexual deviance. Oscar Wilde wore a green carnation, and yellow served the same purpose in Australia, and purple provided that function in some communities in the United States. I realized I would have to make some compromises in order for this to really function as a symbol."Ĭloseted gay people have also historically used bright colors to signal their homosexuality to each other, as Forrest Wickman wrote in Slate. "Even to do four-color printing for photographs like this was complicated. " One of the reasons I had to adapt the eight-color version to the six-color version of the flag - the one we use today - is because in 1978 eight colors was expensive," Baker told the Museum of Modern Art.
The longest rainbow pride flag ever, in Key West in 2003.Īndy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau/Getty Images Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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