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| LGBTQ symbols |
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| Symbols |
| Pride flags |
Variouspride flags have been used to symbolizegay men. Rainbow flags have been used since 1978 to represent both gay men and, subsequently, theLGBTQ community as a whole. Since the 2010s, various designs have been proposed to specifically represent the gay male community, the flag shown below is the most common one today.
The original gay pride flags were flown in celebration of theSan Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade on June 25, 1978.[1] According to a profile published in theBay Area Reporter in 1985,Gilbert Baker "chose the rainbow motif because of its associations with the hippie movement of the 1960s, but notes that use of the design dates back to ancient Egypt".[2] In modern times, theRainbow flag is used to represent all LGBTQ+ identities
The first known flag design made specifically for gay men was published online on October 9, 2018, onVK, a Russian website.[3] It was designed by Valentin Belyaev in the mid-2010s or earlier to combatgayphobia, and it was based on thelesbian flag.[4] It symbolizes the attraction of men to each other and the diversity of the gay community itself.[5] It is sometimes known as theUranian flag.[6]
The first gay man flag design to be published online was designed by Mod Hermy of the Pride-Flags account onDeviantArt.[7] It was first posted onTumblr on August 24, 2016, and was based on the pink lesbian flag.[8][9]
In March 2017, Gilbert Baker created a nine-stripe version of his original 1977 flag, featuring lavender, pink, turquoise, and indigo stripes alongside red, orange, yellow, green, and purple. According to Baker, the lavender stripe symbolizesdiversity.[10]
Another flag design for gay men, featuring green, teal, white, blue, and purple stripes, was designed by Tumblr user gayflagblog, adisabledtrans man.[5][11][12][13][14][15][16] Two versions, with seven and five stripes respectively, were released on July 10, 2019.[17][18] The colors from turquoise to green represent community, healing and joy; the white stripe in the middle is aniteration ofMonica Helms'trans flag design and includes people who aretransgender,intersex,gender non-conforming, ornon-binary; and the colors blue through purple represent pure love, strength, and diversity.[19][20][21] This design is sometimes known as theVincian flag,[4][22] and referred as "ocean gay flag" by the flag designer and users.[23]
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![Five-stripe flag by gayflagblog, iterated from the seven-stripe flag[25]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3a5-striped_New_Gay_Male_Pride_Flag.svg)
A flag for thebear subculture exists.
Media related toMale homosexuality flags at Wikimedia Commons
