The first rainbow flag had eight colours – hot pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, violet.Īs the flag has evolved, some of the colours have changed. Once inspiration struck, Baker wanted to give this new rainbow meaning. It was like a rainbow.’ What do the colours in the Rainbow Flag mean?
The two colors that were removed from the rainbow flag Original are aquamarine or sea green and pink. The colors of the rainbow flag they are related to various aspects of life with which members of the LGBT collective want to identify themselves.
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. Rainbow Flag and the meaning of its colors. In Baker’s memoir, Rainbow Warrior, he wrote: ‘The crowd was as much a part of the show as the band. 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.
