Rainbow Pride Flags
The rainbow flag is the foundational symbol of LGBTQ+ pride. Designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978, the original eight-stripe flag has been adapted, simplified, and expanded many times. This category traces the rainbow flag family from its San Francisco origins through its evolving production forms.
Entries in this category (7)
- 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 Baker's 1978 eight-stripe original and the six-stripe standard adopted for the 1979 parade.
- Rainbow Pride Flag The six-stripe rainbow flag, the most widely recognized Pride flag, standardized around the 1979 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
- Gilbert Baker Nine-Stripe Rainbow Flag A 2017 update by Gilbert Baker that restores the original eight stripes and adds a lavender stripe for diversity, creating a nine-stripe design.
- Chicago Pride Flag (Rainbow Stripes, Purple Stars) An unofficial civic-pride mashup flag that fills the entire field of the City of Chicago's municipal flag with a five-stripe rainbow palette (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, replacing the flag's white field and two light-blue bars entirely), with the four six-pointed stars recolored purple instead of the municipal flag's original red.
- Chicago Pride Flag An unofficial civic-pride mashup flag, sold by PrideFlags.com as the “Official Chicago Rainbow Pride,” that keeps the City of Chicago municipal flag's white field and recolors it: the two horizontal bars are each split into a three-color rainbow cluster (pink–red–orange at top, teal–blue–purple at bottom), and each of the four six-pointed stars is individually recolored (pink, orange, yellow, purple) instead of the municipal flag's uniform red.
- PRIDE USA Flag The six-stripe rainbow flag charged with the fifty-star canton of the flag of the United States.