The origin of the rainbow flag was created by local artist Gilbert in San Francisco. Gilbert Baker designed it on 1978.
1978165438+10, San Francisco gay city councilman Harvey? Milk and the mayor were murdered at the same time, which shocked the whole gay community. In order to commemorate this tragedy, the gay community in San Francisco deeply feels the need for a symbol of pride, which can unite and represent the strength and unity of the gay community.
So at that time, Baker was invited by the gay community in San Francisco to design a pride sign belonging to the gay community in San Francisco. Inspired by the colorful "flag of race" at that time, Baker designed eight colors of rainbow flags, including pink, crimson, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and purple. According to Baker's explanation, these colors are representative, life, revival and purple.
At that time, Baker dyed the first rainbow flag in his studio and was selected as the most representative gay symbol by the San Francisco Gay Parade Committee in 1978. But because these eight colors are all dyed by Baker himself, it is impossible for the flag factory to dye one color. And for the convenience of the parade, the Committee decided to remove pink and indigo, thus becoming a six-color red flag that can be seen everywhere today.
Although the rainbow flag was originally designed for gay groups in San Francisco as a symbol of pride, over the years, the six-color red flag has been widely loved and adopted by gay groups all over the world.
Today, among gay groups all over the world, the six-color red flag has become a symbol of gay people all over the world. No matter in new york, Paris, London, Sydney, or Taipei, Tokyo and Hong Kong, you can see six-color red flags flying, representing the pride of gay groups in the sun.
Today's six-color rainbow is a symbol of the gay movement for equal rights.
Red (life), orange (recovery), yellow (sun), green (nature), blue (art) and purple (soul).