Light blue represents the traditional colour for baby boys.Pink represents the traditional colour for baby girls.Black and brown represent people of colour.The 5 new colours added includes black and brown (which represent people of colour) and pink, light blue, and white (which are used in the Transgender pride flag). The Progress pride flag was designed by Daniel Quasar in 2018, and features a forward-moving 5-coloured chevron on top of the popular 6-coloured rainbow pride flag. Inclusive LGBTQ+ Award Badge - enamel pin They needed an even number of colours for that, so turquoise was dropped.
In 1979, the San Francisco pride parade wanted to split the flag into two in order to display each half on one side of the parade route. Hot pink was thus dropped from the flag in November 1978. Demand for the rainbow pride flag soared, but flag makers at that time had difficulty getting hot pink fabric. In November 1978, Harvey Milk was assassinated by a former supervisor, and became an icon of gay martyrship overnight. This 6-coloured rainbow pride flag is the version that was adopted into emoji form in 2016: ?️? This is probably the most common LGBTQ+ rainbow pride flag you’ll see these days. Inspired by Judy Garland’s “Over the rainbow”, Baker designed the first rainbow pride flag, which included 8 colours. Harvey Milk, then city supervisor of San Francisco, challenged Gilbert Baker to create a new flag for the gay community. However, by the 1970s (30 years after the war ended), many felt that the pink triangle reminded them of a dark age, and wanted something that could represent the dawn of a new age.
Gilbert Baker designed the OG rainbow pride flag in 1978.īefore that, the pink triangle was used as a symbol for the gay community, due to its use by the Nazis during WWII to identify and stigmatise gay people. Original Gilbert Baker rainbow pride flag (8 colours)