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PRI FLAGS 101: EVERYTHG YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY, TRANS, AND OTHER PRI FLAGS
In a world which stunts are expelled for handg out Pri flags to prott Florida's "Don't Say Gay Bill," the need to show support for LGTBQ+ rights—publicly as well as privately—is as important as ever. Read on to learn more about the flags, their origs, and their meangs.Gilbert Baker Pri Flag(Image cred: Wikimedia Commons)In 1977, gay polician Harvey Milk tasked veteran Gilbert Baker to e up wh a Pri flag. Apparently Baker had trouble gettg the pk lor, so the flag began sellg wh seven lors stead.Tradnal Gay Pri Flag (Image cred: Getty Imag/Norberto Cuen)This is probably the flag you'll see most often: Six lors, apparently easier to produce than the odd-numbered seven (although other reports say was more about makg the flag easier for paras and to hang on posts).
The term was ed 2006 on The Asexual Visibily & Edutn Network (AVEN) by er “sonofzeal” but 's not known who signed the origal flag.Lbian Labrys Flag(Image cred: Getty Imag/Ecelop)This flag isn't wily ed—and part of the reason may be that the flag was signed 1999 by a gay man, Sean Campbell. But the "leather flag," created by Tony DeBlase 1989, is a symbol of that muny (which clus many gay men)—black may symbolize leather, whe is pury, blue is votn, and the heart is love.Bear Brotherhood Flag(Image cred: Getty Imag/grebhkovmaxim)Craig Byrn and Pl Wzkoske 1995 ma the "bear flag" for "a subculture of mascule-prentg gay, bisexual and trans men who embrace facial and body hair and may have larger bodi." Each stripe reprents the different lors of bears. Prr to World War II, there wasn’t a universal sign or object for gay, trans, and/or queer people to e to build a muny around Ameri, let alone around the world.
The pk triangle was ed Nazi Germany ncentratn mps durg the Holot to signify that a male prisoner was gay or queer. After the end of the Nazi reign, the pk triangle no longer served that purpose, although many gay men were not eed after the Alli took ntrol of Germany 1945. Many saw rceratn well to the 1970s, and Germany would not end rceratn for gay people officially until 1994.