What does homosexuality have to do with rainbow colors?!?

Answer 1

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.
http://www.rainbowcoin.com/flag_history.htm

Answer 2

A rainbow flag is a multi-colored flag consisting of stripes in the colors of the rainbow. Not all, however, use the actual basic colours red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and violet.
In 1978, Gilbert Baker of San Francisco designed and made a flag with six stripes representing the six colors of the rainbow as a symbol of gay and lesbian community pride. Slowly the flag took hold, offering a colorful and optimistic alternative to the more common pink triangle symbol. Today it is recognized by the International Congress of Flag Makers, and is flown in lesbian and gay pride marches worldwide.
The use of all the colours of the rainbow symbolises all flags of gay people.

Answer 3

I am not suposed to reveal classified information, but I will make an exception just this once......... The truth, is that there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Actually, it's that naked guy from deliverance, doing his squeal like a pig routine.

Answer 4

Diversity

Answer 5

i understand precisely what it potential, and that i totally help them. And as a preacher, i desire to quickly see the day while the guidelines do away with the comparable bigotry that were bumped off for the Indians, the blacks, and the ladies, and on that day i visit gladly connect them in matrimony.

Answer 6

in the sixties and seventies the rainbow was the symbol of the anti-racist organisations. The gays hijacked it.

Answer 7

I'm just guessing, but I thought the idea was it symbolizes unity among all of the various "minorities" of society -- racial minorities, religious minorities, and "others."

Answer 8

I like to think it's our way of ruining it for Noah. And just giving the finger to god because we stole his sign that he would never flood the world again and are using it to promote "evil " LOL LMAO

Answer 9

i guess because all difrent type of people are together as one

Answer 10

i would guess it is because gays can be any color