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There are a multitude of symbols that the LGBTQ community uses to gather together, spread activism, and indicate to others who is a member of the community and who is an ally. There are many different types of flags within the LGBTQ community. There are flags for pansexual people, agender people, transgender people, bisexuals, gay people, lesbians, and straight people. But the flag that the United States and the world is most familiar with is the rainbow flag. Under the rainbow flag, all LGBTQ organizations, communities, and events have rallied together in a show of solidarity. But how did the rainbow flag come to be a gay pride symbol? What does it represent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why was the rainbow chosen as a symbol of the gay community?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A rainbow flag has been used for different purposes throughout history. Some posters and movements use it as a symbol of resistance, while other people used it to represent a certain period of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were no rainbow flags present at the first gay pride parade in the United States for at least seven years. They were many different symbols used from the 1920s to the 1960s Battle of gay people to rally under symbols to come together and form communities and social circles. However, none of the symbols were flags. The gay pride rainbow flag <\/a> was created in 1978 by an artist named Gilbert Baker. Baker was a gay man who also participated in drag. They could have chosen many different symbols to represent the LGBTQ community, but he decided to use a flag because he thought that flags were powerful symbols. A flag was meant to be visible from all directions and had immediate meaning to anyone who looked at it. If gay people were going to be accepted, they had to be as visible as possible in every aspect of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baker did not decide to make a symbol all on his own. He was actually asked to create an all-encompassing symbol for the gay community by a U.S. politician named Harvey Milk. Harvey Milk was an openly gay politician in the United States government. He wanted a single solitary symbol for the entire gay community so it could be used throughout the United States and by the gay communities around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does the (new) rainbow flag symbolize?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some people believe that the rainbow flag is used as a symbol of the LGBTQ community because of how bright and flashy it is. But that was not the reasoning behind at all. Gilbert Baker decided to use a rainbow to signify the eight different parts of life that are important to gay people. Pay attention: Gilber Bakers's flag has 8 colors - not 6. Each color corresponds to a part of life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n