Now, there is more than just one flag to represent the community. “He assigned a meaning to each of the colors: hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for magic, blue for harmony and violet for spirit.” Different Pride Flags + Their Meanings “Baker drew inspiration from the US national flag, which had celebrated its bicentennial in 1976, and an actual rainbow, which displays the colors of the light spectrum in roughly the same sequence as the flag,” Prisco explained. That first version had eight colors, including a hot pink that was later removed because it was difficult to dye. Baker had been asked by his friend Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California, to design a symbol for what was then commonly referred to as the gay community, but is now more inclusively called the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer & questioning) community. That flag was designed by Gilbert Baker, a gay artist and activist in San Francisco, when he was only 27. “The rainbow flag, which has become a universal symbol of hope for LGBTQ people around the world, first flew in San Francisco's United Nations Plaza for Gay Pride Day, on June 25, 1978,” Jacopo Prisco wrote for CNN. So it might surprise you to know that the rainbow flag has only been used for just over four decades as a Pride symbol. Now, the rainbow flag is a symbol of hope and inclusion in the LGBTQ community that’s so ubiquitous it’s hard to imagine a Pride celebration without vivid banners flying overhead and outfits made from every color in the rainbow. The rainbow will always represent joy and happiness. And of course, it’s a symbol of finding a better life “somewhere over the rainbow” for Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz. Pets, when they pass away, are said to cross the “rainbow bridge” to wait for us until we can be reunited with them.
INDIGO COLOR MEANING ON RAINDBOW CRACK
In Chinese culture, the rainbow is a crack in the sky made by the mother goddess Nüwa. Irish legend has leprechauns hiding pots of gold at the end of rainbows. In the Bible, the rainbow was a sign from God to Noah that the great flood was over. In ancient Greek mythology, Iris is the goddess of the rainbow, connecting people to the gods. Since the beginning of human history, rainbows have been symbols of hope to cultures across the globe. Violet represents imagination and creativity. Indigo represents awareness and intuition. Orange represents endurance and perseverance. Those seven colors, though, have come to represent feelings and emotions.
In reality, scientists have identified over a million hues within a single rainbow beam. We commonly identify seven colors in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, blue, green, indigo, violet. But rainbows are more than just beautiful objects: they have meaning and significance that transcends time.
Glowing above in the sunlit sky, the rainbow inspires awe in anyone who sees it, no matter if you’re seeing your first rainbow or your thousandth.
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