Pride

Celebrate Pride by taking a deep dive into the meanings behind the multitude colors of the Pride Flag.

You ever wonder who created the beautiful rainbow flag? well It goes back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, designed the first rainbow flag. He was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S., to create a symbol of pride for the gay community. Baker decided to make that symbol a flag because he saw flags as the most powerful symbol of pride. so he adopted eight colors for the stripes, each color with its own meaning {hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit}. Also, because of production issues, the pink and turquoise stripes were removed and indigo was replaced by basic blue, which resulted in the contemporary six-striped flag (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet). The various colors came to reflect both the immense diversity and the unity to LGBTQ community.

This is: THE GILBERT BAKER PRIDE FLAG

The new colors of the beautiful LGBTQ flag
Daniel Quasar redesigned the flag, it is called the Progress Pride Flag which adds five arrow shape lines/ to the six colored rainbow flag. The new colors are black & brown, light blue, pink and white. the meaning to the colors Black & Brown represents marginalized LGBTQ PEOPLE OF COLOR,

Light blue, Pink and White represents the TRANSGENDER community / Yellow with the Purple circle represents INTERSEX people.

Morgan Carpenter designed the intersex flag in 2013. Carpenter chose the colors golden yellow and purple specifically to avoid “referencing gender stereotypes, like the colors pink and blue”. The circle, which is “unbroken and unornamented”, symbolizes “wholeness, and completeness, and [intersex people’s] potentialities”.

Gilbert Baker colors in the original pride flag,
RED/ LIFE
YELLOW/ NEW IDEAS
GREEN/PROSPERITY
BLUE/ SERENITY
VIOLET/ SPIRIT

Lets love life, show Love, be loved, be Happy, adventurous, exciting, wonderful, SEXSY and be Proud.

Live and let Live!

Your truly, Honey