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Horizontal stripes in the colours of the spectrum, the flag of LGBTQ pride.
Also known as: Pride flag, Gay pride flag, LGBT flag
Designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978 with eight stripes, each assigned a meaning. It settled at six after two colours proved hard to manufacture — a practical accident rather than a decision, and the reason the flag has six stripes rather than the eight originally intended.
The flag of LGBTQ pride and community, flown at pride events and used worldwide as a marker of inclusion.
Designed by Gilbert Baker for San Francisco in 1978 with eight stripes, each given a meaning — hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for magic, indigo for serenity, violet for spirit.
Reduced to six stripes because hot pink fabric was not commercially available and turquoise was dropped to give an even number for street display. The six-stripe version is now the standard one.
A rectangle divided into six equal horizontal stripes, from top to bottom red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.
Both are pride flags identifying communities within the same movement.