Designer Proposes New Pride Flag

Newly proposed pride flag

In 1978, Gilbert Baker created the now-iconic rainbow flag to represent the burgeoning gay rights movement.

At the time, Baker explained the stripes each stood for an aspect of the "gay community," which is what we called it before the alphabetical LGBTQ+ designation today.

Now, an artist named Daniel Quasar has launched a crowd-funding campaign to help him manufacture a new flag, one that includes the colors of the transgender flag as well as stripes for race.

According to Quasar, the body of the flag would remain the rainbow flag “so as not to take away from its original meaning.”

The light blue, pink, and white stripes on the left come from the transgender flag. The brown and black stripes represent people of color, “as well as those living with AIDS, those no longer living, and the stigma surrounding them,” Quasar adds.

The new colors form an arrow pointing right “to show forward movement.”

The iconic rainbow flag

I'm going to offer an opinion on this, as I have in the past, and say we have a flag that we've embraced.

The iconic pride flag is made up of the colors of the rainbow which Baker assigned meaning to human values: Life, Healing, Sunlight, Nature, Serenity, Spirit.

In other words, the rainbow flag is already fundamentally inclusive of everyone already.

By the way - June 25 will be the 40th "birthday" of the rainbow flag. Thank you, Gilbert Baker.

Chime in below if you agree or disagree.

Transgender flag first shown at a pride parade in Phoenix, AZ, in 2000.