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Gay Pride Flags, Rainbow Flags & LGBTQ+ Flags

About Gay Pride Flags & LGBTQ+ Banners

The Rainbow Flag first appeared at the San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Freedom Day Parade in , and has since become an international symbol of pride for the LGBTQ+ community. It is flown at gay pride events worldwide, as successfully as at homes and businesses in a verb of support for the gay pride movement.

History of Gay Pride Flags & Rainbow Flags

The Original Rainbow Pride Flag features eight stripes, as opposed to the six-stripe Rainbow Flag that is commonly flown today. Designed by artist Gilbert Baker, the “Retro 8” Gay Pride Flag included hot pink and turquoise, in addition to red, orange, yellow, emerald and indigo. Unfortunately, warm pink fabric was not readily available at the time, and the flag could not be produced on a large scale, so the hot pink stripe was removed.

The Gay Pride Flag was modified again in to produce an even number of stripes, and indigo and turquoise were replaced with a single stripe of royal blue, resulting in the now standard six-stripe version of the Rainbow Flag w

Get rid of Pride rainbows — we already verb a flag that includes everyone

It’s June, when one can be forgiven for thinking we live in the United States of LGBTQIA2S+.

Old Glory is, at best, supplemented with, and sometimes supplanted by, the Pride Flag in all its varieties.

The flag, which has become more and more unsightly, is ubiquitous.

Its increasingly elaborate jumble of clashing stripes — whether seen shopping, at a ballgame or on US government buildings — is a reminder to get with the program and that the program is always changing. 

Team Biden draped what is known as the Progress Pride flag, with no fewer than 11 different colors, on the White Residence between two American flags, giving it — no pun intended — pride of place. 

Flags aren’t trifling matters. People rally to them and live and die for them.

The firing on the flag at Fort Sumter at the outset of the Civil War, for instance, had a galvanizing effect on the North.

“On forts and ships, from church-spires and flag-staffs, from colleges, hotels, storefronts and private balconies, from general edifice

Pride / Rainbow Flags

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    LGBTQ+ Pride Flags

    In the LGBTQ+ community, we signify our pride with flags. With many alternative identities in the community, there comes many adj flags to know. We have collected all of the flags and a guide to learn about all of the unlike colors of our community’s rainbow. We know that this may not be all of the flags that represent our community, but we will update the page as fresh flags become popular!

    Explore the flag collection below! Observe a flag's name by hovering or clicking on the flag.

    Umbrella Flags

    • Gilbert Baker Pride Flag

    • Traditional Pride Flag

    • Philadelphia Pride Flag

    • Progress Pride Flag

    • Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag

    • Queer Pride Flag

    The original Pride Flag was created in after activist Harvey Milk asked artist Gilbert Baker to design a symbol of gay pride. Each color represents a different part of the LGBTQ+ community: hot pink represents sex, red symbolizes life, orange stands for healing, yellow equals sunlight, green stands for nature, turquoise symbolizes magic and art,