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Happy Pride Month, everyone! To help you get in the spirit of this excitingly queer time of year, we've put together a guide to everything you need to know about the OG Pride flags: what they mean now, then, and today.
The Gay Pride Flag
In 1978 San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker designed what is now known as the 'rainbow flag', something to represent the gay community during Pride month in San Francisco.
The official gay pride flag design came together, with each colour representing the following:
The gay pride flag was hung from lamp posts in San Francisco during Pride and subtly hung up outside bars, homes and businesses to indicate whether a place was queer-friendly. Today, the rainbow pride flag is an iconic household symbol of the LGBTQ+ community.
The Philadelphia Diversity Pride Flag
The Philadelphia Pride flag adds two stripes, black and brown, to the rainbow flag's original six. Tierney, a Philadelphia-based public relations firm, designed the city's "More Colour, More Pride" campaign to pay tribute to the city's dedication to the QTBIPOCs community.
The flag soon became a symbol of intersectional and diversity Pride, highlighting the continued movement to bring awareness to the experiences of queer BIPOCs as it relates to both their sexual identity and racial identity.
The Progress Pride Flag
In addition to the rainbow colours, the Progress Pride features a white, pink, and blue triangle to represent the transgender community and a black and brown triangle to represent BIPOC groups, similar to the diversity flag.
This Progress Pride flag was designed to take Philadelphia's inclusive approach further. Daniel Quasar, a non-binary artist, designed the flag, wanting to make sure trans, queer BIPOCs was recognised while also paying homage to those we lost to AIDS.
The gay pride flag is one of the most iconic and recognisable symbols of the LGBTQ+ community. Without the original flag, we wouldn't have the many colours representing tribes and LGBTQIA+ groups. In fact, without the original flag – we wouldn't have RCREW!
Our Pride bracelet represents the beauty of diversity and inclusivity, as well as finding your own community. All three gay pride flags colours are available in the form of our Pride bracelets and can be worn by anyone within the LGBTQIA+ collective.
Wear it for Pride or all year round as a subtle signalling bracelet.
And finally, on behalf of the RCREW team, we want to wish you all a happy and safe Pride Month!
Shop our Pride bracelets:
We have an extensive collection of Pride bracelets to represent other subgroups and tribes; however, we are still adding to the collection, so be sure to give us a follow-on social media for updates!
For a few hours every summer, the guesswork stops. You can look around and simply know. This is what Pride does that nothing else does. The question worth asking is what happens when it ends.
You and your people are in the same spaces every day. The same supermarkets, the same offices, the same commutes. The problem was never finding each other. It was knowing each other. And that is a different problem entirely.
"Every gay person must come out," Harvey Milk said in 1978. He believed visibility would destroy myths and change the world.
He was right. Nearly 50 years later, coming out looks different. It's not always a speech or a grand announcement. Sometimes visibility is as quiet as wearing a bracelet.
