The Complete Guide to Queer Pride Flags and Their Meaning

Each year in June, Gay Pride parades in several cities across the globe. This pride march is meant to celebrate gay, bisexual, queer, trans, or other men and women. The flags where the participant's parade are there to maintain a feeling of belonging. They are considering that the creation of the march fifty decades back, other flags have united the rainbow.

Pink news gives us a guide listing their meaning:

The rainbow flag

The rainbow flag is often used to represent the LGBT community as a whole. For Gilbert Baker, its creator, each color symbolizes something different: red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, blue for serenity, and purple for l' mind.

"I like to believe that these characteristics are in all of us. The flags mean something: if a person hangs the rainbow flag on his windshield, it means that he supports LGBT people," Gilbert Baker told ABC7 News in 1972.

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The bisexual flag

Michael Page designed this flag in 1998 to give visibility to bisexual people. Purple merges into blue and pink. Behind these colors is the idea that bisexuals and bisexuals are often put aside by the gay or straight community.

The transgender flag

The transgender flag was created in 1999 by US Navy veteran Monica Helms after coming out as trans: “ Trans people need a flag too, ” she explained. The color pink represents trans women; blue symbolizes trans men, and the white in the middle embodies non-binary.

The intersex flag

Intersex people are born with genitals that cannot be defined as belonging to the category "female" or "male." In 2013, the International Intersex Organization - Australia created a flag that does not adopt gendered colors: blue and pink. Conversely, yellow and purple are considered "hermaphroditic" colors.

“The circle represents wholeness and wholeness but also our unlimited potential. We continue to fight for our autonomy and our bodily and genital integrity. All this symbolizes our right to be whoever we want ”, we can read on the organization's official page.

The pansexual flag

Pansexuality is a sexual orientation that characterizes individuals who may be attracted, emotionally, or sexually, by a person of any sex or gender. The pansexual flag first appeared on the internet in 2010, but its origin remains unknown. Since then, he is often seen in Gay Prides around the world. According to Wikipedia, pink represents women's attraction, blue represents attraction to men, and yellow represents non-binary people.