The white stripe completes the full sexual spectrum and also symbolises peace and union. 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. This 6 colors palette has been categorised in. Again, although the rainbow Pride flag is easily the most iconic and. Homosexuality is defined as being exclusively sexually attracted to members of the same sex. 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. Download LGBT Flag Colors color scheme consisting of FF0018, FFA52C, FFFF41, 008018, 0000F7D. The most recognizable letters of the entire acronym, L (Lesbian) and G (Gay), represent the homosexual people of the LGBTQ+ community. The parade was in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The giant rainbow flag was carried by more than 10,000 people during New York’s Gay Pride parade in 1994. 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. The largest LGBT pride flag was 30 feet wide and 1 mile long.
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.