Commonly used by the LGBT movement as a gay pride flag, or simply pride flag and seen at Pride events. However, those claims have since been debunked, and the flag became increasingly accepted within the community. A flag with six colors of the rainbow, generally including red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Hot pink correlated to sex, red to life, orange to healing, yellow to sunlight, green to nature, turquoise to magic, indigo to serenity and purple to spirit. This 5-coloured (and sometimes 7-coloured) gay men pride flag was designed in 2019 by Tumblr user but it wasn’t without controversy.Īccusations that the creator of the flag is transphobic, and that the design was stolen from the sunset lesbian flag, were rampant. Over time, demand grew for a flag that specifically represents gay men. The (cis, white) gay man has always been at the centre of pride movements, but as people opened their minds to include all LGBTQ+ identities in the movement, the rainbow flag increasingly solidified its position as one that represents the entire LGBTQ+ community.
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