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) In this article, we’ll take a look at all the pride flags out there, and explain their origins and the meanings behind their colours. But there’s more pride flags than just the rainbow flag, and many of us might struggle to recognise or understand what those flags mean.
Flags have been an important rallying symbol for the LGBTQ+ movement, and many of us feel a sense of pride whenever we’re engulfed in a sea of rainbow flags during pride month.
