Brazil Gay Flag
Regional Pride Flag ·
The flag of Brazil with its green field replaced by six rainbow stripes, keeping the yellow lozenge, the starred globe and the ORDEM E PROGRESSO band. Marked as Greg Gomes's design on his national page; the image held here is Eddo's 2010 Wikimedia Commons remake of it. [1][2] The Commons remake circulates in Portuguese-language Wikipedia articles.
Key facts
- Designer
- Greg Gomes
- Created
- Published online
- Published online by 2002
- Aspect Ratio
- 5:8 · apparent
- Ratio Notes
- The artwork held here is not a file from the designer’s own page but Eddo’s SVG remake on Wikimedia Commons, described there as an “SVG remake of Brazil flag according to the National Gay Flags of the World” and uploaded at 400 by 247 pixels; the copy in this archive is a 960 by 594 raster of it. [2] Both measure to about 5:8. The proportion is therefore a property of the remake, published as apparent, and is not a proportion attributable to Gomes.
- Stripes
- 6
- Represented Identity
- LGBTQ
Status Variant
Archive categories Regional and Language-Specific Pride Flags
Overview
The green field of the Brazilian flag replaced by six horizontal rainbow stripes, keeping the yellow lozenge, the blue celestial globe with its arc of stars and the white band lettered ORDEM E PROGRESSO. Greg Gomes published the design on the national page of his collection and marked it as his own; the image held here is a later remake of it made for Wikimedia Commons by the user Eddo in 2010. [1][2] No physical flag has been documented, though the Commons file circulates in Portuguese-language Wikipedia articles.
Identity & Context
- Represented Identity
- LGBTQ
- National Context
- Brazil
Creators
The Creator
Greg Gomes
Designer and publisher
Greg Gomes is credited as the designer of the flags marked on his own pages, and as the publisher of the two sites that carried them. He ran Gay Journey at gayjourney.com, whose footer carries a copyright range beginning in 2002, and the later Gay Flags of the World at gayflags.biz, 2005 to 2011. Both published from American Dimensions, PO Box 573, McKinney, Texas 75070, and both ran the same four series of gay flags: general, national, United States state, and Canadian provincial. A post-office box is a mailing address. It does not establish where Gomes lived, and no source states where any of these files was drawn.
He marked his own designs with a symbol before the flag name, which is what separates the flags he made from the flags he catalogued. The marking is per flag and not every flag carries it: of the forty-seven on the national page, Azerbaijan, Canada and the United States do not. [1] His terms for reuse were set out on the same page, in his own words: the marked designs were his and Gay Journey’s property and protected by copyright; anyone wishing to use one was to contact him and say where it would be used, credit the design to him, and make the flag a clickable link back to gay_flags.htm. He also stated that the marked designs were not for sale through the page. [1]
Outside his own sites the collection was noticed twice on Flags of the World. Francisco Santos wrote on 14 May 2003 that GayJourney.COM carried “lots of rainbows: from Argentina to Wales, EU, UNO, US states, Canadian provinces and general gay flags,” and added that “perhaps not all of these flags are actually used in the real word.” Richard Knipel wrote on 14 June 2004 that most of the flags, “with ‘GJ’ underneath, were designed by the site’s author, Greg Gomes,” and that it was “hard to say how many of these are flying somewhere.” [3] Tomislav Todorović, reading the state series in 2015, recorded that the Wyoming flag was “not marked as his creation,” unlike most images.
One property of the collection recurs across the individual flags and is recorded here rather than on each of them: of the twenty-nine files recovered from the two sites, fifteen share one identical set of six sampled rainbow values, across both the Canadian and the national series. The rainbow arrives in these designs as a fixed component of the collection rather than as a choice made for each flag.
The thirty-one entries held here are not his complete output. Gay Journey and Gay Flags of the World carried further national, United States state, Canadian and general designs for which no artwork has been recovered, and the archive builds entries only for flags it can see. No biographical source about Gomes has been located beyond the two sites and the Texas post-office box, and no photograph of him has been found.
Attribution
- Organization
- Gay Journey
Attribution notes
This flag is one of the designs on the national page, and it carries the symbol Gomes placed before a flag name to mark a design as his own rather than one he catalogued. [1] His publication, that marking convention and his reuse terms are set out in the creator record below.
Origin
- Digital Origin
- Gay Journey (gayjourney.com)
- Origin Type
- creation place unknown; published online
- Physical Origin Status
- Not documented.
Represents Brazil. The design was not made there: it was published through a McKinney, Texas post-office address and the place it was drawn is not documented. [1]
The flag represents Brazil. Where it was made is not documented. The design was published through Gay Journey (gayjourney.com), run from American Dimensions, PO Box 573, McKinney, Texas, which is a mailing address for the publisher and not evidence of where Gomes lived or worked. No source located places Gomes in Brazil or identifies him as a resident or community member there. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Published online
- Published online by 2002; a Wikimedia Commons remake circulating digitally since 2010. No physical use documented.
- Creation Bounds
- Four different things are recorded here and they are not the same date. The copyright range on Gay Journey begins in 2002, and the site's flag section is in the Internet Archive from 28 October 2002, which bounds the collection rather than this design. [1] Collection-level publication is documented from outside the sites twice: Francisco Santos described GayJourney.COM on Flags of the World on 14 May 2003 as carrying "lots of rainbows: from Argentina to Wales, EU, UNO, US states, Canadian provinces and general gay flags," and Richard Knipel wrote again on 14 June 2004. Neither report lists or dates an individual flag. [3] Direct documentation of this individual design has not been dated. No source dates the design itself, and no flag in the collection carries a date of its own. The year given is the earliest year the collection is documented in publication.
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Rainbow Pride Flag
- Sibling flags
- Alberta Gay Flag, Straight Ally Pride Flag, Anarcha-Queer Flag (rainbow variant), Argentina Gay Flag, Australia Gay Flag, British Columbia Gay Flag
+ 44 more
Canadian Pride Flag, Chicago Pride Flag (Rainbow Stripes, Purple Stars), Chile Gay Flag, Dominican Republic Gay Flag, Egypt Gay Flag, European Union Gay Flag, France Gay Flag, Gay Pride Flag of Pakistan, Heteroflexible Pride Flag, Heterosexual / Straight Pride Flag, Homoflexible Pride Flag, India Gay Flag, Italy Gay Flag, Japan Gay Flag, Jewish Gay Pride Flag, Manitoba Gay Flag, Mexico Gay Flag, Netherlands Gay Flag, New Brunswick Gay Flag, Newfoundland Gay Flag, Northwest Territories Gay Flag, Nova Scotia Gay Flag, Nunavut Gay Flag, Ontario Gay Flag, Palestinian Gay Pride Flag, Panama Gay Flag, Philadelphia Pride Flag, Prince Edward Island Gay Flag, Quebec Gay Flag, Rainbow Flag with White Triangle (Sapporo), Rainbow Israel Flag, Rainbow Polish Flag (2014, Angela Getler), Russia Gay Flag, Saskatchewan Gay Flag, Social Justice Pride Flag, South African Gay Pride Flag, Switzerland Gay Flag, Tanzania Gay Flag, Texas Rainbow Flag, Turkish Gay Pride Flag, Two-Spirit Pride Flag (2005, Zoccole), Two-Spirit Pride Flag (2016 Tumblr documentation), Victory Over AIDS Flag (1980s, designer unknown), Yukon Territory Gay Flag - Lineage confidence
- high
Two visual sources, one of which the lineage graph can hold and one of which it cannot. The six-stripe Rainbow Pride Flag is a direct Pride-flag parent and is registered as one. The Flag of Brazil is the second visual source, and it is recorded as a structured source-flag relationship in Design rather than as a graph node, because the graph accepts only Encycloflaggia entries and no Pride entry should be invented to create one. The relationship here is: source flag with fields replaced by rainbow stripes. Flags of the World describes the method this whole class of flag follows as "taking an existing flag and 'merging' it with the Rainbow Flag or various GLBT symbols to represent GLBT members of the group the existing flag represents." [3] The other Gomes flags are siblings by collection rather than by descent: one designer, one operation, four series published together under one set of terms. A shared designer is a collection relationship and not a substitute for parentage.
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 4 records across 4 generations.
- Ancestors -3
- Original Rainbow Flag (1978)
- Ancestors -2
- Seven-Stripe Rainbow Flag (1978)
- Ancestor
- Rainbow Pride Flag
- This record
- Brazil Gay Flag
Colors & Symbolism
No published statement of meaning has been located. [2]
No palette has been published, and none is sampled here: the file held is a later remake rather than the designer's own artwork, so its values are the remaker's. [2] These are working values sampled from the surviving artwork at the centre of each band, not published specifications; the collection-level note on the recurring Gomes rainbow values is carried in the creator record rather than repeated on each flag.
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 5:8 · apparent
- Ratio Notes
- The artwork held here is not a file from the designer’s own page but Eddo’s SVG remake on Wikimedia Commons, described there as an “SVG remake of Brazil flag according to the National Gay Flags of the World” and uploaded at 400 by 247 pixels; the copy in this archive is a 960 by 594 raster of it. [2] Both measure to about 5:8. The proportion is therefore a property of the remake, published as apparent, and is not a proportion attributable to Gomes.
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 6
- Layout
- striped field with central lozenge and globe
- Center Symbol
- Yellow lozenge carrying Brazil's starred blue globe and ORDEM E PROGRESSO band
Six horizontal rainbow stripes, red at the top through violet at the bottom, in place of the flag of Brazil's green field, with the national flag's yellow lozenge at the center carrying the blue celestial globe, its arc of white stars and the white band lettered ORDEM E PROGRESSO in green. Read from the repository copy of the Commons file, nominally 400 by 247 pixels. [2]
No construction sheet has been located. The Commons file is nominally 400 by 247 pixels, close to the national flag's 7:10; that is the file's geometry, not a specification. [2]
The flag of Brazil with its green field replaced by the six-stripe rainbow, keeping the yellow lozenge and the starred globe.
Source flag and visual comparison
- Source flag
- Flag of Brazil
- Jurisdiction
- Brazil
- Relationship
- source flag with fields replaced by rainbow stripes
- Elements retained
- the yellow lozenge, the blue celestial globe with its arc of white stars, and the white band lettered ORDEM E PROGRESSO
- Elements altered
- the green field, replaced by six horizontal rainbow stripes
The Brazilian flag is a green field with a yellow lozenge and a blue globe carrying the motto ORDEM E PROGRESSO; the Commons file used for comparison implements the construction sheet annexed to Lei n. 8.421 de 11 de maio de 1992. Gomes replaced the green and left the lozenge and the globe.
Usage & Adoption
- Current Status
- unknown
No physical flag has been documented. The Commons remake is reproduced across Portuguese-language Wikipedia's LGBT articles, which is digital reproduction of an image rather than use of a flag. [2]
Image Archive
Source Flag and Visual Comparison
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 4 sources
- 1. Designer page National Gay Flags Of The World. Greg Gomes. Gay Journey / American Dimensions, McKinney, Texas. Accessed 2026-08-10 · Archived version
The designer's own page, read in full. Brazil carries the marker identifying the design as his.
- 2. Image file page File:Brazil Gay flag.svg. Eddo. Wikimedia Commons (2010-09-24). Accessed 2026-08-05
- 3. Databases Variations of the Gay Pride Rainbow Flag (1). randy young (editor); reports by Steve Kramer, Francisco Santos and Richard Knipel. Flags of the World (2023-09-30). Accessed 2026-08-10
Read in full. Cited for Kramer's description of the merging method this class of flag follows, and for the two dated outside notices of the Gomes collection, 14 May 2003 and 14 June 2004.
- Image file page File:Flag of Brazil.svg. Raimundo Teixeira Mendes (design); SVG implementation of Lei n. 8.421 de 11 de maio de 1992. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed 2026-08-11
The file-description page for the source-flag comparison image in this entry's gallery, read for its licence, authorship and restriction metadata.
Image Sources
- The Brazil gay flag as remade for Wikimedia Commons by the user Eddo in 2010, described there as an "SVG remake of Brazil flag according to the National Gay Flags of the World." · Credit: Design by Greg Gomes; SVG remake by Eddo, Wikimedia Commons, 24 September 2010 · Wikimedia Commons, File:Brazil Gay flag.svg · Public domain (as marked on the Commons file page)Rights Two rights positions apply and they are not the same. The public-domain mark on Commons applies to Eddo's file, not to Gomes's underlying design, whose reuse terms as published are set out in Rights. Commons also marks the file with an LGBT-symbol advisory noting that use of such symbols is restricted by law in several countries. [2]
- Flag of Brazil (Brazil), the source flag for this design. The Brazilian flag is a green field with a yellow lozenge and a blue globe carrying the motto ORDEM E PROGRESSO; the Commons file used for comparison implements the construction sheet annexed to Lei n. 8.421 de 11 de maio de 1992. Gomes replaced the green and left the lozenge and the globe. Relationship: source flag with fields replaced by rainbow stripes. Retained: the yellow lozenge, the blue celestial globe with its arc of white stars, and the white band lettered ORDEM E PROGRESSO. Altered: the green field, replaced by six horizontal rainbow stripes. · Credit: Raimundo Teixeira Mendes (design); SVG implementation of Lei n. 8.421 de 11 de maio de 1992 · Wikimedia CommonsRights Public domain. Wikimedia Commons marks this file with an insignia restriction: it depicts a flag, coat of arms, seal or other official insignia whose use is restricted in many countries independently of copyright. Reproduced here as a comparison for the Gomes design, not as a representation of any government.