Since there are no official specifications for the color shades, it is not quite unusual to see copies of flags, which display different shades of same color, being used together. The ratio is 1:2 - also not very usual, still less unusual than the color shades combination. Here, blue and purple/indigo are even lighter and darker, respectively, than on the previously described flags, but the other colors are also darker than usual, which especially seems to be visible with red and green. Image by Tomislav Todorović, 22 November 2015Īnother flag displaying such variations was photographed in Hanoi, Vietnam, on 3 August 2014. However, a gay activist who was interviewed was wearing a badge which showed the colours as we show.Ī flag matching this description was seen at the Taiwan Pride in Taipei, on 26 October 2013. There were many shots of people holding the gay pride rainbow flag, but the colours were slightly different to what we show, with a lighter blue for the fifth stripe and a much darker sixth stripe - much closer, in fact, to the "indigo" (as it's called in English) of a real rainbow.
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Of course, this flag doesn't exactly have official specifications, but it seems to have become sufficiently common for this variation to be worth noting: The legalising of gay marriage in Spain was reported on The World on BBC4 TV tonight (30 June 2005). Image by Tomislav Todorović, 27 September 2014 To my knowledge this is one of the only public buildings in the world soĭecorated. a labrys (double-headed axe) is another lesbian symbol and is sometimes included, usually centered on the fieldĪ pink triangle is sometimes located in the hoist of the Pride Flag.ĭuring the renovation of Montreal’s (Canada) metro (subway) system in 1999-2000, the access to Beaudry metro, the station serving the gay village, was torn down and replaced with a beautiful new building with the colours of the gay pride flag integrated into it. white stripe vertically in the hoist, to denote that «all are included». flag black is a color associated with lesbianism - a black triangle on pink is also sometimes used as a lesbian symbol. pink triangle in a canton of blue or black. pink triangle in the upper hoist, usually point upward The rainbow flag with a heart on it: leather = SM. The rainbow flag with a naked female torso: lesbian. The rainbow flag with a naked male torso: gay They are apparently used to give info to potential customers: In Amsterdam one can't help noticing in the Red Light quarter gay and lesbian flags. Perhaps not all of these flags are actually used in the real word. It is hard to say how many of these are flying somewhere.Īt GayJourney.COM, lots of rainbows: from Argentina to Wales, EU, UNO, US states, Canadian provinces and general gay flags. Most of these, with "GJ" underneath, were designed by the site's author, Greg Gomes. This web page GayJourney.COM has an awful lot of gay flags, which are mostly variations on other flags, including all US states, all Canadian provinces, and many nations. I suppose there will be many more like the Maryland one at that will to be known or developed and then known. This seems to be a fairly consistent pattern - taking an existing flag and "merging" it with the Rainbow Flag or various GLBT symbols to represent GLBT members of the group the existing flag represents. The rainbow flag forms the basis for many different, in part localized, variants. Miscellaneous Reports about the Rainbow Flag Two-spirited people of the First Nations.National and sub-national flag variations:.Variations with order and number of stripes.Flag with two conjoined rainbow patterns.Rainbow Flag for Transgender and People of Color.Rainbow Flag with heart and crossed bones.Miscellaneous reports about Rainbow Flag.Keywords: rainbow flag | stripes: 6 | smiley | labrys | earth | map: earth | hat: cowboy | aids | pirate | crossed bones | heart (black) | aids | matlovich (leonard) | This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website Variations of the Gay Pride Rainbow Flag Sexual Orientation Flags