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LGBTQ+ Pride Flags

In the Gay community, we signify our pride with flags. With many different identities in the community, there comes many alternative flags to understand. We have calm all of the flags and a guide to understand about all of the different colors of our community’s rainbow. We realize that this may not be all of the flags that represent our community, but we will update the page as modern flags become popular!

Explore the flag collection below! See a flag's name by hovering or clicking on the flag.

Umbrella Flags

  • Gilbert Baker Pride Flag

  • Traditional Pride Flag

  • Philadelphia Identity festival Flag

  • Progress Pride Flag

  • Intersex-Inclusive Progress Self-acceptance Flag

  • Lgbtq+ Pride Flag

The original Pride Flag was created in after activist Harvey Milk asked creator Gilbert Baker to design a symbol of gay self-acceptance. Each color represents a different part of the Diverse community: hot pink represents sex, red symbolizes life, orange stands for healing, yellow equals sunlight, green stands for nature, turquoise symbolizes magic and art,

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Pride is always something to shout about. Picnics, parades and festivals will take place throughout June and over the summer months, a colour explosion of progressive self-acceptance flags and fashion marking the occasion. This year however there’s an extra reason to celebrate, with marking fifty years since the first UK Lgbtq+ fest march in London in An outward and general celebration of LGBTQ+ rights, Pride is about entity visible, celebrating and reflecting on the achievements and challenges faced by the community over the years.

This public display of individuality and love is now an annual event in the summer calendar, but such overt visibility hasn’t always been possible, or legal, or safe. At a time when general opinion towards the people was overwhelmingly hostile and the legal system declared their love as criminal behaviour, many LGBTQ+ people hid their identity in plain sight through symbolism and coding. A grassroots set of ‘secret symbols’ was developed, subtle enough to go relatively unnoticed by those who would seek to cause injure but instan

BEN APPEL: As a gay guy, I have no pride in Pride month. Radical LGBT bullies have captured it – and threaten to 'fix' us by medicalizing and transitioning us. But gay people will NOT be erased again

Ben Appel is a writer based in New York. His forthcoming memoir is 'Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic'. Follow him on Twitter @benappel.

Everywhere around me, I see Pride flags. 'It's time to celebrate the LGBT community!' I'm told. But, this year, as a gay guy, I'm not proud of my so-called 'community.'

In fact, I'm horrified by it.

Two decades ago, when I attended my first Movement parade, the LGBT world truly needed it. Pride is the opposite of shame. And for decades, even centuries, gay people had been told to be ashamed of ourselves, of our same-sex attraction, and our supposed inability to behave like 'normal' people.

We were harassed and dominated. Homosexuality was criminalized. If a man was convicted of having consensual sex with another elder man, he was given two options: imprisonment or chemical castration.

Gays were forced to be something we were not. We we

With the Manchester Pride Festival coming up August, we want to make sure everyone feels comfortable and safe at all of the incredible events taking place as part of the celebrations. As such, we’ve created this reference of practical tips to help straight and cisgender people understand how to be good allies at LGBTQ+ Pride!  


1. Grasp the meaning of Homosexual Pride!

While Pride can be a really great party, it’s also a march. Pride has always been about improving LGBTQ+ rights, and it continues to fight for positive alter for LGBTQ+ people today. Manchester Pride has a long history of fighting for LGBTQ+ liberation, and so by coming to Pride you are joining in on a social movement bigger than any one of us. To help with your awareness, here are some immediate LGBTQ+ Pride facts:

Pride was created as an annual reminder of the Stonewall Riots. LGBTQ+ people fought to change harmful laws, end police brutality and create safe and general spaces for LGBTQ+ people. While we have made a lot of progress, there are still issues we are fighting for today, such as im