Varients of gay pride flags
As Baker ramped up production of his version of the flag, he too dropped the hot pink stripe because of the unavailability of hot-pink fabric. To meet demand, the Paramount Flag Company began selling a version of the flag using stock rainbow fabric with seven stripes using the colors red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, and violet. “After the assassination of gay San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk on November 27, 1978, demand for the rainbow flag greatly increased. The original 8 colour striped gay Pride flag by Gilbert Baker: Hot pink (Sex), Red, (Life), Orange (Healing), Yellow (Sunlight), Green (Nature), Turquoise (Magic/Art), Indigo (Serenity), Violet (Spirit). Original Gilbert Baker 8 Color Rainbow Gay Pride Flag The Rainbow flag is now considered to be LGBT+ inclusive, however, several groups within the gender and sexuality spectra have also flown their own identity flags, as below. Originally designed by Gilbert Baker and first paraded in 1978 to rally the gay rights movement at Pride events in San Francisco. Sexuality – Gender – Expression Rainbow ‘Gay’ Pride Flag
These may be based upon sexuality, gender identity, sex identification, sex, gender and sexuality expression, role, or activity. Since the 1970s advent of the LGB Rainbow Pride flag in San Francisco, several communities have felt the need for separate, in addition, flags to represent and gather their sub-communities under.