The flag was created in 1977 by Gilbert Baker, an artist, activist, and openly gay military veteran. He is a historic figure in the fight for LGBTQ rights, to create a flag for the queer community, Baker created a rainbow flag with eight different colours. He was inspired by the classic song "Over the Rainbow" from the 1939 film The Wizard from Oz. Each color in the flag also has a specific meaning. Pink symbolizes sex. Red equals life. Orange symbolizes healing. Yellow stands for sunlight. Green represents nature. Turquoise equals magic and art. Indigo stands for harmony. Violet represents the spirit of LGBTQ people.

It is used to symbolize the overall LGBTQ community. Many organizations and businesses use this flag as a symbol to show that their establishment is a safe space for everyone in the community. The pink and turquoise from Gilbert's original flag were excluded so it would be easier to mass produce.

This flag was created in 2017 to give representation to black and brown people in the LGBTQ community and the unique challenges they face. According to sources “this new flag is a great step to show the world that people are supporting all members of the community."

The Transgender Flag was first created in 1999 by Monica Helms, a transgender woman. Light blue and pink are featured because they’re the traditional colours associated with baby boys and girls, respectively. The white stands for those who are intersex, transitioning or those who don´t feel identified with any gender.

This flag was created in 2018 by Daniel Quasar in response to Philadelphia’s updated pride flag. It combines the colours and stripes from Philadelphia's version of the pride flag and the colours of the transgender pride flag.

Asexual is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or a low interest in sexual activity. Asexual can be an umbrella term and each color in this flag also represents something unique. Black stands for asexuality. Gray represents demisexuality, for those who develop sexual attraction to someone only after forming a deep emotional bond with them. White stands for the allies of the community. Purple represents the entire community of asexual folks.

The Bisexual Pride Flag represents pink and blue blending to make purple. The way that bisexual people can blend into the straight community and the gay community. The colours of the flag also represent attraction to different genders. The pink symbolizes attraction to the same gender, while the blue represents attraction to a different gender. The purple represents attraction to two or more genders, the definition of bisexuality.

The flag represents people whose gender identity does not fit within the traditional male/female binary. The colours each symbolize a different subgroup of people who identify as nonbinary. Yellow signifies something on its own or people who identify outside of the cisgender binary of male or female. A cisgender person would be a person whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. White stands for multi-gendered people. Purple represents people who identify as a blending of male and female genders. And black signifies those who are agender, who feel they do not have a gender.

Intersex is an umbrella term for those whose bodies do not align with the gender binary of male and female. Some people can have both sets of genitals, various combinations of chromosomes or more differences. This flag was created in 2013 by Morgan Carpenter so that people could use to represent intersex community without depending upon misconceptions or stereotypes. The circle, perfect and unbroken, represents the wholeness of intersex people. It is a reminder that intersex people are perfect the way they are or choose to be.

The original lesbian pride flag had a red kiss mark in the top left corner. It was introduced to the world to the world in a blog post back in 2010. Some people still use that kiss mark to represent feminine or "lipstick" lesbians. It was created by Natalie McCray and the different shades of red and pink are said to represent different shades of lipstick. In the new flag, the colours represent the following: Darkest Orange: Gender non-conformity, Middle Orange: Independence, Lightest Orange: Community, White: Unique relationships to womanhood, Lightest Pink: Serenity and peace, Middle Pink: Love and sex and Darkest Pink: Femininity

The 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. Over time, demand grew for a flag that specifically represents gay men. The turquoise to green colours represents community, healing, and joy, white represents gender nonconforming, non-binary, and transgender folks and lastly, blue to purple colours represent pure love, fortitude, and diversity.

The Pansexual Flag was created in 2010. Pansexuality represents those people who feel attracted to a person without thinking about gender. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others. This means that they can feel attraction to those who identify as women, men, both or neither. The pink on the flag represents attraction to women, blue represents attraction to men, and yellow stands for attraction to those who don’t identify with either gender.

Polysexual individuals are attracted to people of multiple genders. The polysexual pride flag has pink, green, and blue stripes. Pink represents an attraction to women, green represents an attraction to non-binary, and blue represents an attraction to men.

The Abrosexual Pride Flag has existed since 2015. The flag was created by Mod Chad after an anonymous person requested it. It is unknown why this person chose these colours specifically. Abrosexual refers to an individual whose sexuality is changing or fluid. For example, someone could be gay one day, then be asexual the next, then polysexual the next. While it is possible and even common for a person's sexual identity to shift or change in some way throughout their life, an abrosexual person's sexuality may change more frequently, over the course of hours, days, months, or years.

Genderqueer people are individuals who don't conform to society's ideas of how they should act or express themselves based on the gender they were assigned at birth. According to Psychology Today, "This may be in terms of their thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and, most importantly, their gender identity." Lavender represents androgyny, white stands for agender identities and green for non-binary people.

People who are genderfluid don't identify with one gender, but rather their gender identity shifts between male, female, or somewhere else on the spectrum. How often someone's identity shifts depend on the individual. Pink represents femininity, white represents all genders, purple stands for both masculinity and feminity, black represents a lack of gender and blue is for masculinity.

The black and white stripes represent an absence of gender, the grey represents semi-genderlessness, and the central green stripe represents nonbinary genders.

A bigender person is some whose sense of personal identity encompasses two genders. It literally translates as ‘two genders’ or ‘double gender,’ and these genders could be male and female but could also combine non-binary identities. Pink/blue stripes are for presentation and the feeling of your identities (feminine, masculine, androgynous, whatever suits you). The top purple is for all kinds of relationships. The white stands for unique bigender experience, how it feels and what it’s like. It’s also for understanding each other in this community. The bottom purple is about self-respect, pride, and being true to yourself.

The flag has five horizontal stripes of dark green, light green, white, grey and black; dark green symbolizes aromanticism, light green, together with the dark one, represents the aromantic spectrum, white stands for platonic and aesthetic attractions, while grey and black represent the sexuality spectrum.

The Heterosexual Pride Flag. Straight is most viewed as men attracted to women and women attracted to men. The term "straight" is used to describe for both straight men and straight women. While straight is often used to describe non-LGBT people it is possible for straight people to be part of the LGBT community. For example, they might be transgender. They also might be, asexual heteroromantic, or aromantic heterosexual, which also makes them LGBT.

The Straight Ally flag is using the black-white "colours" of the heterosexual flag as a field, it adds a large rainbow colored "A" for "Ally" to indicate straight support for the Gay Pride/Equal Marriage movement. A straight ally or heterosexual ally is a heterosexual and/or cisgender person who supports equal civil rights, gender equality, LGBT social movements, and challenges homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.

This flag is meant to be a symbol for those who say they need to feel a strong emotional connection to someone before they are sexually attracted to them. Black represents asexuality, grey - demisexuality, white - sexuality and purple represents community.

Demigender people are individuals who feel a partial connection to a particular gender identity. There are three versions of the Demigender Pride Flag; the grey and yellow one, therefore, is a more gender-neutral design since the yellow color represents non-binary genders.

Demigirl gender identity term is used for someone who was assigned female at birth but does not fully identify with being a woman, socially or mentally. The central white and pink stripes represent women, and the horizontal stripes of different shades of grey signifies uncertainty associated with this gender-identity.

Demiboy folks identify only partially as a boy or man. The demiboy gender is part of the non-binary umbrella, since it doesn’t fit within the binary (male / female) concept of gender. This gender may or may not identify as another gender on top of partially being a boy or man Blue represents masculinity or manhood. White represents agender or non-binary identities. Grey represent partial connections and grey areas.