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Culture April 2, 2020
Keep an eye out for these flags during Pride Month!
It’s Pride Month, one of the most wonderful times of the year for the LGBT+ community. It’s that time of the year where you take out your Pride outfits, get out your Pride flags, and walk down the streets of the U.S. and be proud of who you are and/or what you support.
During Pride month, you’ll be seeing a variety of different flags waving in the skies, but what do they all mean? Here is your guide to LGBT flags and what they all mean.
The idea for the LGBT Flag and the later flags to come afterward came from the artist Gilbert Baker, the original maker of the LGBT Flag. He created the rainbow flag because it represents togetherness and rainbows are both natural and beautiful.
As time goes on, other flags were made. So, from ENTITY Mag to you, here is a beginner’s lesson to some of the magnificent LGBT flags.
The traditional rainbow LGBT flag represents Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride, followed by LGBT movements and accomplishments. With the colors of the rainbow, the flag represents togetherness, naturality, and beauty.
The bisexual flag is parallels to individuals who not only like one sex but adores the other sex as well. Represented in pink, purple, and blue strip colors, the Pink indicates that attraction to the same sex, blue indicates the attraction to the opposite sex, and purple represents the attraction of both sexes.
The transgender flag represents a community that is filled with individuals who are transitioning or have transitioned to what is the sex they always were. Consisting of three different colors, baby blue, baby pink, and white, baby blue represents baby boys, baby pink represents baby girls, and white represents the individuals transitioning to their respected sex they were meant to be or individuals who consider themselves as a neutral or undefined sex.
The pansexual flag shows off its pride with individuals who care about the person, not with what their gender is. With pink, yellow, and blue stripes, the pink stripe represents female individuals, the yellow represents nonbinary and gender-nonconforming individuals, and blue represents male individuals.
Now, there are more flags that we haven’t talked about that represent other amazing communities. However, let’s try to not cram your head with all of these colorful flags at once and the next day we have to do this all over again. As long as you can recognize these flags, understand also that we as individuals are all human beings, it doesn’t matter who we are or what we believe in. We are in a generation of evolution, we need to settle with the idea of loving each other and being more inclusive with one another and coming together. Happy Pride!
