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. Over time, demand grew for a flag that specifically represents gay men. A quick search of an identity will come with flag results.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.
Milk, having expected assassination due to the constant homophobia and threat he faced due to his political position, once stated that “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”īaker died on March 31, 2017, at the age of 65, due to health complications.
Harvey Milk was assassinated months later on November 27, 1978. The eight-color design was first flown at the San Fransisco Gay Freedom Day Parade on June 25, 1978. First raising of the new inclusive pride flag design at Philadelphia City Hall (June 8, 2017)īaker stated that he chose the symbol to be a flag because he found flags to be the most powerful symbol of pride.