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Colorful and diverse, all Pride flags represent the LGBTQIA community and help them feel seen and heard. Beyond that, the LGBTQ+ community has adopted specific symbols and flags for not only self-identification but also to share values, show unity, allegiance, and pride. Today’s article is about all the Pride Flags color meaning and significance.

What are the colors of Gay Men flag? The Gay Men flag has 7 primary colors, which are green, green, green, white, blue, indigo and blue. The table below has the common and popular codes of these colors in HEX, RGB and CMYK formats along with Pantone (PMS), RAL and NCS (Natural Color System). Overlapping over the stereotypical colors for boys (blue) and girls (pink) is lavender—attraction to both sexes.

Here's a guide to all the LGBTQ+ Pride flags, from the gay Pride banner and the bisexual flag to the transgender and non-binary designs. The pink and blue shades represented same-gender attraction while the orange and green stripes stand for non-binary and gender non-confirming individuals. The black and white stripes symbolize asexual, aromantic, and the agender community.

June is Pride Month! Flags are sociopolitical symbols of community membership, unity, and visibility. Over the years, the Pride flag has evolved to promote greater inclusion and recognize the many communities that celebrate Pride. Read on to find out about the history behind this imagery. You may be familiar with the rainbow-striped Pride flag.

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In recent years, this flag has been updated and expanded to represent the intersectional diversity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and Two-Spirit LGBTQIA2-S communities. This was adapted from badge that gay prisoners were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps.

In the late s, Harvey Milk — a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the first openly gay man elected to public office — asked his friend Gilbert Baker to design a symbol to represent what was then referred to as the gay community. Baker collaborated with his friend Lynn Segerblom also known as Faerie Argyle Rainbow to design the rainbow-striped flag with eight colors.

Each of the original eight colors had their own unique symbolism. Hot pink: sex; Red: life; Orange: healing; Yellow: sunlight; Green: nature; Turquoise: magic and art; Indigo: serenity; and Violet: spirit. There are specific flags celebrating the identities of transgender, bisexual, lesbian, pansexual, asexual, and other communities. This flag incorporated the black and brown stripes of the Philadelphia Pride flag in addition to pink, white, and blue stripes in reference to the Trans Pride flag.

In , Valentino Vecchietti designed an intersex-inclusive Pride flag, which includes a purple circle over a yellow triangle as a reference to the Intersex pride flag that was created in by Morgan Carpenter. Purple and yellow are used as intentional contrasts to blue and pink, which are typically thought of as gendered colors. Sources: them. Previous About Pride Month.

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