Behr Pride Flag

Overview

The gallery states the flag was "created by Sean Campbell in 1995 and was used in many of the Twilight Guard's promotional and informational material the same year." ^[1] That is a single source, on the site of the club Campbell co-founded, and it is the only date the archive holds for this design.

Creators

Origin

Country

United States

Unresearched. The Twilight Guard was founded on 15 July 1995 by six men meeting in Stamford, Connecticut, and Campbell was one of its founding members, so 1995 places this flag in the founding year of a club he helped start. Nothing has been read that states where or for whom the design was made. ^[1]

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

1995

First public use

1995

Documented use is the Twilight Guard's own promotional and informational material in 1995. ^[1] No use outside the club has been located, and none has been searched for.

This flag sits outside the magazine series and predates it by five years. Campbell's own 2012 account of his flag designs, which covers the Gay and Lesbian Times batch, does not mention it. ^[2][1]

Lineage

Related flags

International Bear Brotherhood Flag, Feather Pride Flag, Labrys Lesbian Flag

Shares its documented year, 1995, with Craig Byrnes's International Bear Brotherhood Flag, which became the bear community's standard and which the Twilight Guard gallery lists separately from Campbell's designs. ^[1] Whether either design knew of the other, and in which direction if so, is unestablished; nothing here should be read as a claim of priority in either direction. See bear-pride-flag-1995. The two designs put the paw in the same place, at the upper hoist, and both use warm browns and golds for hair color. Whether either knew of the other is unestablished and nothing here should be read as a claim of priority; the resemblance is recorded because it is visible, not because a source explains it.

Colors & Symbolism

Unresearched. No colour values have been sampled or published.

Design

Aspect Ratio

3:5 · standard

Orientation

horizontal

Stripe Count

7

Layout

horizontal stripes with corner emblem

Stripes (Top → Bottom)

black, dark brown, orange, white, gold, orange, black

Additional Symbols

black bear's paw at the upper hoist

Read from the gallery's own thumbnail, which is 288 by 169 pixels. Seven horizontal bands in five colors, black at the top and bottom with dark brown, orange, white and gold between them and orange repeated, and a black bear's paw print set at the upper hoist across the first bands. Seven bands in five colors is consistent with the gallery's "five colors representing the basic hair types." Which band stands for which hair type is not stated, and the exact hues of the second and sixth bands are not reliably separable at this resolution. No larger copy has been seen. ^[1]

Usage & Adoption

Organizations

The Twilight Guard, in promotional and informational material in 1995 ^[1]

Current Status

unknown

Image Archive

A 288 pixel gallery thumbnail, not a specification. Campbell declared his six asterisked designs public domain and asked for credit.

Discourse & Debates

Common confusions

• Not the International Bear Brotherhood Flag (Craig Byrnes, 1995), which is the widely used bear flag. See bear-pride-flag-1995. ^[1]

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

• The design as it appears in the Twilight Guard's flag gallery, the only copy located. ^[1] · Credit: Sean Patrick Campbell / The Twilight Guard · The Twilight Guard