If you look at my blog and all of the posts, you will notice that I use the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet as the font colors for each post. If you are wondering why, well it's because these are the colors of the rainbow and the rainbow is the pride flag for gay people. Everyone pretty much knows that the rainbow represents being gay, but no one really knows why it's a representation for that.The flag was first displayed during the 1978 Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade in San Franscisco. It was designed by Gilbert Baker. It it used as a symbol of gay and lesbian pride at marches and everywhere. It is also known as the freedom flag. It is displayed on cars, in windows, and on poles in some towns. The flag is now shown with the traditional colors of the rainbow and six stripes, but it wasn't always like that. The original flag had eight stripes. The colors were hot pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, and violet. Each color stripe had a different meaning special to the gay community.
hot pink-sexuality
red-life
orange-healing
yellow-sunlight
green-nature
turquoise-magic
blue-serenity
violet-spirit
The flag was soon modified because of the difficulty to make multiple amounts of flags because of the shortage of hot pink fabric. After that the flag was cut to seven stripes, all of the same except without the hot pink stripe. Later on, because of a displaying problem, Baker decided to cut the flag down again to six stripes. He eliminated the turquoise strip and kept the rest of them. This is how the flag became the way it is now. Sometimes the flag can also be seen with a black stripe at the bottom to represent those who were lost to AIDS. The flag is now seen around the world and is a staple in the gay community. I bet that you won't catch a gay person without seeing the flag, but now you no a little history about it, so you don't have to be oblivious about the colors.
http://www.gaykamloops.ca/Pictures%20for%20use/Pride-Flag-in-the-wind.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag
