Rainbow flag

The first rainbow flag was designed by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker in 1978 in response to calls from activists to symbolize the LGBT community. Baker designed the flag with eight stripes: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple.

These colors were intended to represent adequately:

• sexuality
• life
• heal
• the sun
• nature
• Visual Arts
• harmony
• spirit

When Baker approached the company to begin mass production of flags, he learned that "hot pink" was not commercially available. Then the flag was reduced to seven stripes .
In November 1978, the lesbian, gay, and bisexual community of San Francisco was stunned by the murder of Harvey Milk, the city's first gay guardian. To show the strength and solidarity of the gay community in the face of the tragedy, it was decided to use the Baker flag.

The indigo stripe has been removed so that the colors can be divided evenly along the parade route - three colors on one side and three on the other. Soon, six colors were included in the six-lane version, which became popular and is today recognized by everyone as a symbol of the LGBT movement.

The flag became international a symbol of pride and diversity in society .