Historical and Early Pride Flags

Original Rainbow Flag (1978) The eight-stripe original, made by Gilbert Baker and Lynn Segerblom in 1978 and sewn with James McNamara, first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade on 25 June 1978.

Seven-Stripe Rainbow Flag (1978) A seven-stripe rainbow flag produced in the transition between the 1978 eight-stripe original and the six-stripe standard adopted by the 1979 parade.

Rainbow Pride Flag The six-stripe rainbow flag, standardized around the 1979 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade, is the third version in the Baker-Segerblom lineage.

Leather Pride Flag A nine-stripe horizontal flag alternating black and royal blue around a central white stripe, with a tilted red heart in the canton.

International Bear Brotherhood Flag A seven-stripe horizontal flag in bear-fur tones with a black bear paw print in the canton.

Bisexual Pride Flag A three-stripe flag, a wide magenta band over a narrow lavender-purple band over a wide royal-blue band in 40:20:40 proportions, unveiled by Michael Page on 5 December 1998.

Transgender Pride Flag Five stripes of light blue, pink and white, made by Monica Helms on 19 August 1999, a date she now calls Transgender Flag Day, and first flown at Phoenix Pride in 2000.

Labrys Lesbian Flag Sean Patrick Campbell's violet flag places a white labrys over an inverted black triangle.

Victory Over AIDS Flag (1980s, designer unknown) A six-stripe rainbow flag with a single black stripe added at the bottom, used during the AIDS pandemic to mourn those lost to AIDS and to stand with people living with HIV.

Behr Pride Flag Sean Patrick Campbell's bear-community flag of 1995: nine horizontal bands in five colors, symmetric about a white center, with a stylized black paw at the upper hoist.

Disability Pride Flag (2016 proposal, Ann Magill) Ann Magill published her first Disability Pride Flag proposal on Dreamwidth on August 10, 2016.

Feather Pride Flag A gold phoenix over a red, black, and white patterned field, designed by Sean Patrick Campbell and first published in the June 2000 Pride edition of Gay and Lesbian Times (Greater Palm Springs Edition).

Gay USA Pride Flag (Campbell) Sean Patrick Campbell's variation on the Gay USA flag, keeping the six rainbow stripes and the fifty-star canton and recoloring the canton pink where the earlier design's is blue.

Polyamorous Pride Flag The earliest documented pride flag for polyamorous identity: three equal horizontal stripes, blue over red over black, with a gold lowercase Greek pi at the centre.

Rainbow Israel Flag The Israeli national flag with each of its two blue bands replaced by three narrow rainbow bands, keeping the white field and the blue Magen David.

Gilbert Baker Nine-Stripe Rainbow Flag Gilbert Baker's final rainbow-flag variation, documented in March 2017, restores the original eight stripes and adds lavender above them for diversity.

Rubber Pride Flag A flag for the rubber and latex fetish community, attributed to Peter Tolos and Scott Moats and dated to 1994 in the earliest located sources, though several later guides give 1995.

Transgender Nation Flag A pink downward-pointing triangle on white charged with a device of interlocked circles, made for Transgender Nation, the transgender focus group of Queer Nation, in about October 1991 in San Francisco.

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