However, those claims have since been debunked, and the flag became increasingly accepted within the community.
Using a rainbow flag as a symbol of gay pride began in San Francisco. Also known as the gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag, the colors reflect the diversity of the LGBT community and the spectrum of human sexuality and gender. This 5-coloured (and sometimes 7-coloured) gay men pride flag was designed in 2019 by Tumblr user but it wasn’t without controversy.Īccusations that the creator of the flag is transphobic, and that the design was stolen from the sunset lesbian flag, were rampant. The rainbow flag is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender ( LGBT) and queer pride and LGBT social movements. Over time, demand grew for a flag that specifically represents gay men. Created by Monica Helms, an openly transgender. The (cis, white) gay man has always been at the centre of pride movements, but as people opened their minds to include all LGBTQ+ identities in the movement, the rainbow flag increasingly solidified its position as one that represents the entire LGBTQ+ community. Some lesbians reclaimed this symbol as gay men reclaimed the pink triangle.
