It accurately represented their diversity in terms of age, race, gender, and was yet a symbol of solidarity and one of hope as it has been throughout history. The flag took colours meant to depict them as outcasts and turned them into a representation of their struggles.īaker, recalls watching people’s faces light up as they saw it, and it needed no explanations. The rainbow flag brings all these colours together and merges them into one unified symbol representing the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer as one solidified community. The colour yellow served a similar purple in Australia and purple in the United States. During the Holocaust, Nazis forced gay men to wear pink triangles as a symbol of defiance to their sex. The colour green is also associated with Oscar Wilde, a homosexual poet in the Victorian era who was trialled for his sexual orientation. Closeted gay people often used bright colours as a signal to others about their sexuality. But then looking at the history of gay pride revolution, it is not a surprise that Mr Baker chose a bright meteorological phenomenon. It’s interesting to note that of all the symbols, Baker chose the rainbow.
