Did you know ...
what symbolyze the rainbow flag apart the "gay community"?
At first i thought it was many "sexualities" exist and are equals (and so say wikipedia).
That's untrue, each color has a different meaning:
- pink means sex
- red means life
- orange means health
- yellow means the sun
- turquoise means arts
- indigo means harmony
- purple means spirit
Although, the current flag has only 6 colors (check wikipedia for the story).
A little more about colors
We all know that pink is often associated with being gay, because of the pink triangle for the na..zi, though it's quite incorrect now, especially asia. Indeed, according to gayboythailand (sorry i forget where it is) the asian color for gay "show off" seems to be purple (i'm gonna enquire about it with my bf but i think there is no semi-official gay sign).
A bit more information about the rainbow flag, here, an abstract:
The first Rainbow Flag was designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a San Francisco artist, who created the flag in response to a local activist's call for the need of a community symbol. (This was before the pink triangle was popularly used as a symbol of pride.) Using the five-striped "Flag of the Race" as his inspiration, Baker designed a flag with eight stripes: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. According to Baker, those colors represented, respectively: sexuality, life, healing, sun, nature, art, harmony, and spirit. Baker dyed and sewed the material for the first flag himself - in the true spirit of Betsy Ross.
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