They were allowed to display the flag inside buildings.Īntony Blinken’s cable on “Pride” flags, first reported by Foreign Policy magazine in April, advised that diplomatic posts in certain countries should avoid flying the rainbow flag if doing so would create a backlash.Īlso on Tuesday, President Joe Biden, the second Catholic president in U.S. diplomatic outposts were reportedly prohibited from flying the rainbow flag from embassy flagpoles, and had to obtain special permission to do so. “Trans, QPOC Inclusive Pride Flag Campaign Going Viral.” LOGO News. “Flags of the LGBTIQ Community.” OutRight Action International, 20 Sept.
“Progress Pride Flag.” Grand Rapids Pride Center. “Online Exhibition – Gilbert Baker.” GLBT Historical Society. “From LGBT to LGBTQIA+: The Evolving Recognition of Identity.” History, 19 Oct. It is worth noting, however, that the Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride Festival used a similar flag to welcome recently displaced refugees from Ukraine.Ī post shared by Roderic O'Gorman TD College: Gender and Sexuality Center: Symobls of Pride of the LGBTQ Community. This Ukrainian pride flag originated as a joke on social media and has not been adopted by any official LGBTQ organizations. Hoist: 5 half sized stripes representing trans and non-binary individuals (light blue, light pink, white), marginalized POC communities (brown, black), as well as those living with AIDS and the stigma and prejudice surrounding them, and those who have been lost to the disease (black)
The arrow points to the right to show forward movement, while being along the left edge shows that progress still needs to be made.īackground: LGBTQ 6 full sized color stripes representing life (red), healing (orange), sunlight (yellow), nature (green), harmony/peace (blue), and spirit (purple/violet) The trans flag stripes and marginalized community stripes were shifted to the Hoist of the flag and given a new chevron shape. The main section of the flag (background) includes the traditional 6 stripe LGBTQ flag as seen in its most widely used form so as not to take away from its original meaning. The 6 stripe LGBTQ flag should be separated from the newer stripes because of their difference in meaning, as well as to shift focus and emphasis to what is important in our current community climate. The joke about Ukrainian colors being added to a flag that represents LGBTQ pride is based on the progress pride flag, or what OutRight called the “rebooted pride flag,” which Daniel Quasar designed in 2018 to incorporate colors from the trans pride flag and represent marginalized people of color and AIDS patients within the LGBTQ community. However, activists have created several other flags to represent various sections of the LGBTQ community over the years, including a trans pride flag (which is five horizontal stripes that are light blue, light pink and white). Since then, that flag has remained unchanged. The following year, activists changed the flag - reducing the number of rainbow stripes to six - to lower costs and keep up with demand for the flags. Named the “ Gay Pride Flag” by the advocacy group OutRight Action International, the original rainbow flag with eight colors was designed by Gilbert Baker for the 1978 Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco. Meanwhile, some people believed that the rainbow flag representing LGBTQ pride had also changed over time along with the acronym.
But as society’s understanding of different sexual identities evolved, the acronym changed (while LGBTQ is popular currently, a common variant is LGBTQIA, to recognize intersex and asexual people). Marjorie Taylor Greene.Īs National Geographic noted, it was common to use the acronym LGB in the 1990s to refer to lesbian, gay and bisexual people. The fake flag has since been widely shared on social media, including by Rep. It appears to have been first posted by a Twitter account that used a gay slur in its handle on May 22 in response to a tweet from an anti-racism group that used the hashtag #diversityisourstrength. The above-displayed image was created to mock or satirize the evolving list of groups included in the LGBTQ community. This was not a genuine flag used by the LGBTQ community and its allies.