Hot pink represented sexuality, red represented life, orange represented healing, yellow represented sunlight, green represented nature, turquoise represented art, indigo represented harmony, and violet represented spirit. Although the symbolic use of bright colors has long been connected to queer culture, these flags, fittingly, are a highly visible, widerspread signal of queer identity compared to some of the slightly more covert LGBTQ+ symbols that preceded them. The original Gay Pride flag featured eight colors, each with its own meaning assigned by Baker. It celebrates gay pride, community, queer love, self-love, inclusivity, diversity, resistance, unity, acceptance, awareness, tolerance, freedom, power, hope, and so much more.
Designed by Gilbert Baker The rainbow flag is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBT) pride and LGBT social movements in use since the 1970s. Today, there are dozens of LGBTQ+ flags representing just as many gender identities, sexualities and intersections of communities. Since its debut in 1978, the Pride flag has become an iconic symbol of the LGBTQIA+ community. Rainbow LGBT Pride flag Name LGBT Pride flag Use Symbol of the LGBT community Proportion 2:3 Adopted 1978 Design Six colored striped flag (from top to bottom): red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Much like the communities they represent, these flags are in a constant state of evolution, expanding to better and more inclusively encompass every queer identity under the rainbow. Ever since the first rainbow-hued LGBTQ flag was created in 1978, pride flags have been a colorful symbol of queer identity.