Once inspiration struck, Baker wanted to give this new rainbow meaning. The original gay pride flag was seen in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade on June 25, 1978. It was created by Gilbert Baker in 1978 after he was challenged by Harvey Milk who was the first openly gay. According to the website for his estate, Baker assigned a special meaning to each color of his pride flag. It was like a rainbow.’ What do the colours in the Rainbow Flag mean? This flag is used to represent the LGBTQ community. The Eight Original Pride Flag Colors The earliest version of Baker's rainbow pride flag, from 1978, included eight colors: hot pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, and violet. Baker assigned a specific meaning to each colour: pink. North beach beatniks… bored bikers in black leather, lithe girls in belly-dance get-ups, pink haired punks… muscle gayboys… butch dykes in blue jeans and fairies of all genders… we were all in a swirl of colour and light. Quasar's Progress Pride Flag adds five arrow-shaped lines to the six-coloured Rainbow Flag, which is widely recognised as the symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. It comprised eight coloured stripes stacked on top of each other to evoke a rainbow, a symbol of hope. In Baker’s memoir, Rainbow Warrior, he wrote: ‘The crowd was as much a part of the show as the band. Please note that HEX and RGB codes are to be used for digital works and web pages. The table below has the common and popular codes of these colors in HEX, RGB and CMYK formats along with Pantone (PMS), RAL and NCS (Natural Color System). Homosexual prisoners at the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, wearing pink triangles on their uniforms, are marched outdoors by Nazi guards on Decem(Picture: © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)įor the new emblem of the community, the idea came to Gilbert Baker at a party. The Gay Men flag has 7 primary colors, which are green, green, green, white, blue, indigo and blue. The original pride flag was designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978 and incorporated eight different colors that had different meanings: hot pinksex, redlife, orangehealing, yellowsunlight.