"To achieve this, they needed an even number of stripes, so the turquoise stripe was dropped, which resulted in a six stripe version of the flag we know today - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet," the website adds. The flag was modified in 1979 by the organizers of the 1979 San Francisco Pride parade, who wanted to "split the flag into two in order to decorate the two sides of the parade route," according to Virginia's Old Dominion University website. "In the original eight-color version, pink stood for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony and violet for the soul," the website of Amherst College in Massachusetts explains. A rainbow flag is a multicolored flag consisting of the colors of the rainbow.The designs differ, but many of the colors are based on the spectral colors of the visible light spectrum. The rainbow flag, seen first in the gallery above, was designed by Gilbert Baker for the 1978 San Francisco's Gay Freedom Celebration. Cameron Whimsey via Wikimedia Commons The demisexual pride flag. The gay pride flag typically has six colors, including purple. KiwiNeko14 via Wikimedia Commons The aromantic pride flag. why is then gay flag have only 5 colors red orange yellow green blue. McLennonSon via Wikimedia Commons The pansexual pride flag.
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Calcavorix via Wikimedia Commons The polysexual pride flag. Baker saw the rainbow as a natural flag from the sky, so he adopted eight colors for the stripes, each color with its own meaning (hot pink for sex, red for. Marilyn Roxie, McLennonSon via Wikimedia Commons The gender fluid pride flag. Jim Evans via Wikimedia Commons The genderqueer pride flag. Kye Rowan via Wikimedia Commons The polyamorous pride flag. Britrek87 via Wikimedia Commons A non-binary pride flag. The original flag featured 8 colors, each with a distinct meaning assigned by Baker: Hot pink (Sex), Red (Life), Orange (Healing), Yellow (Sunlight), Green (. Michael Page via Wikimedia Commons The asexual pride flag. Dlloyd based on Monica Helms design via Wikimedia Commons The bisexual pride flag. In the asexual Pride flag, the black stripe is for asexuality the gray for the gray area in between sexual and asexual and demisexuality the white for non-asexual partners and allies and the. L ke in Inkscape via Wikimedia Commons The transgender pride flag. Guanaco via Wikimedia Commons The lesbian pride flag designed in 2018.