#Blue gay flag color meaning full#
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. According to Bi.org, The magenta (or pink) stripe of the flag represents same-sex attraction, the royal blue stripe represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex, and the resulting blending of the two colors is the lavender stripe, which represents same-sex and. The indigo (#400098) and turquoise (#00C0C0) from the original flag were merged into one blue stripe and hot pink (#FF69B6) was removed. The bi pride flag was created by Michael Page and first flown in 1998. 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. 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.
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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. As such, it is the most commonly seen of the flags beyond the traditional rainbow flag. It has been used since the 1990s and replaces the term ‘gay’, which on its own, did not describe the community correctly. The blue version of the flag represents demiboys, which are people who identify somewhat with the male gender. LGBT stands for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. There are three versions of the Demigender Pride Flag, one with a gray and yellow color scheme, one with gray and blue, and another with gray and pink.