History
Use of the rainbow flag by the gay community began in 1978 when it first appeared in the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade. Borrowing symbolism from the hippie movement and black civil rights groups, San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag in response to a need for a symbol that could be used year after year. Baker and thirty volunteers hand-stitched and hand-dyed two huge prototype flags for the parade.
The flags had eight stripes, each color representing a component of the community:
1. Hot Pink for Sex 2. Red for Life 3. Orange for Healing 4. Yellow for Sun
5. Green for Nature 6. Turquoise for Art 7. Indigo for Harmony 8. Violet for Spirit.
The next year Baker approached San Francisco Paramount Flag Company to mass-produce rainbow flags for the 1979 parade. Due to production constraints the hot pink and turquoise were removed and blue replaced the indigo.
This six-color version spread from San Francisco to other cities, and soon became the widely-known symbol of gay pride and diversity it is today
The rainbow flag has inspired a wide variety of related symbols such as the freedom rings, the RainbowCoin, Rainbow Triangles and Color Bars.
The Victory Over AIDS Flag modifies the rainbow flag by adding a black stripe at the bottom. Suggested by a San Francisco group, the black stripe commemorates those we have lost to AIDS. Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a much-decorated Vietnam Veteran dying of AIDS, proposed that when a cure was eventually found the black stripes should be removed from all the flags and ceremoniously burned in Washington, D.C.
The multicultural symbolism of the rainbow is nothing new -- Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition also embraces the rainbow as a symbol of that political movement. The rainbow also plays a part in many myths and stories related to gender and sexuality issues in Greek, Native American, African, and other cultures.
2006-12-06 04:43:34
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answered by rehobothbeachgui 5
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Somewhere Over The Rainbow...Way Up High
There's A Land That I Heard Of Once In A Lullaby.
Somewhere Over The Rainbow...Skies Are Blue
And The Dreams That You Dare To Dream Really Do Come True.
Someday I'll Wish Upon A Star And Wake Up Where The Clouds Are Far Behind Me.
Where Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops Away Above The Chimney Tops...
That's Where You'll Find Me.
Somewhere Over The Rainbow... Blue Birds Fly
Birds Fly Over The Rainbow--Why Then Oh Why Can't I?
If Happy Little Blue Birds Fly Beyond The Rainbow...
Why Oh Why Can't I
2006-12-06 04:58:02
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answered by Anonymous
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Use of the rainbow flag by the gay community began in 1978 when it first appeared in the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade. The Flag Originally had eight stripes, but the present-day flag has six stripes and is officially recognized by the International Congress of Flag Makers. Today the rainbow flag symbolizes the diversity of the LGBTQ and Ally community. The rainbow flag also serves to provide a more gender and orientation neutral form of symbolism, whereas pink triangles, a mainstay of the LGBT movement, are really symbols that deal with the male homosexual. The pink triangle was a symbol that branded prisoners in Nazi Germany as being Gay men. Lesbians and other "sexual deviants" and miscreants had other symbols to bear.
2006-12-06 04:48:32
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answered by SexyPYT 1
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i've got in no way heard of the "crimson rainbow" whether many individuals of our diverse flow have unique symbols and motives to apply them. whether, the rainbow colours are a logo of the adjustments between us and contain all human beings who fights for equality for the LGBT+ community. There are various histories of what the rainbow incredibly stands for... symbology of homosexuality in the previous, representing countless sexual desires, and so on. whether that is often known that the rainbow represents selection and acceptance, coming mutually and forming a cohesive band even with diferences.
2016-12-13 03:55:25
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answered by boynton 3
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because its a natural phenomena n so is rainbow tahts y its is the sign for gays n lesbians
2006-12-06 08:14:21
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answered by kawal 2
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Rehoboth got it. I used to think it had something to do with Wizard of Oz, but I read the version Rehoboth cited last June during pride week.
2006-12-06 04:50:19
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answered by imaginary friend 5
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Love rehobothb answer
2006-12-06 09:30:57
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answered by Noclue 3
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Good question, I'd like to know as well. Maybe because they tend to be happier than average people?
2006-12-06 04:41:17
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answered by Pashta 4
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What "Rehobothb" said!
thats the person under me.
2006-12-06 04:47:32
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answered by Nina 2
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Because they come from every race, every creed and every religious background.
2006-12-06 04:43:10
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answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6
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