Meaning behind the colours: Nobody knows.Īgender folks typically experience a lack of gender identity, a gender that is neutral, or a gender that falls beyond the gender binary. The Abrosexual pride flag was introduced in 2013 by an unknown designer on Tumblr, and the meanings behind the colours in the flag remain unknown. That’s to say, abrosexual folks don’t change their orientation at will or “on a whim”.
In November 1978, Harvey Milk was assassinated by a former supervisor, and became an icon of gay martyrship overnight. 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)
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.