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The rainbow flag was popularized as a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker in 1978. It has since become internationally famous.

The flag is typically flown horizontally, with the red stripe on top (as it would be in a natural rainbow). The most common variant consists of six stripes in total: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet (from top to bottom).

Tag usage

This tag should only be used for examples that have a distinctly flag-shaped appearance, and anything else should use rainbow pride colors instead. There is an active BUR requesting an alias of this tag to rainbow_pride_colors. If that alias goes through the rainbow flag tag will persist as the tag for any flag containing a rainbow theme.

Design variations

• progress_pride_colors — Design variant with a layered chevron on the side.
• philadelphia_rainbow_pride_colors — Design variant with 8 stripes, with black and brown at the top.
• 1978_rainbow_pride_colors — Design variant with 8 stripes, with pink at the top and teal included.
• seven-stripe_rainbow_pride_colors — Design variant with 7 stripes, with cyan/teal included.
• six-stripe_rainbow_pride_colors — Design variant with 6 stripes.

See also

• flag
• french_flag
• irish_flag
• russian_flag
• stars_and_stripes
• swedish_flag
• lgbt_pride
• pride_colors
• aromantic_pride_colors
• asexual_pride_colors
• bisexual_pride_colors
• demisexual_pride_colors
• genderfluid_pride_colors
• genderqueer_pride_colors
• intersex_pride_colors
• lesbian_pride_colors
• orange_lesbian_pride_colors — A flag with seven stripes or five stripes, arranged orange-white-pink, popularized in 2018.
• pink_lesbian_pride_colors — A pink flag with seven stripes most commonly used between 2013 and 2018, visually the same as lipstick_lesbian_pride_colors without the kiss symbol.
• lipstick_lesbian_pride_colors — A pink flag with seven stripes and a kiss symbol meant for femme lesbians, visually the same as pink_lesbian_pride_colors with a kiss symbol.
• labrys_lesbian_pride_colors — A purple flag featuring a white labrys symbol inside an inverted black triangle.
• alternate_lesbian_pride_colors — A catch-all for other lesbian flag designs.
• vincian_pride_colors
• nonbinary_pride_colors
• pansexual_pride_colors
• rainbow_pride_colors — LGBT pride colors.
• progress_pride_colors — Rainbow flag variant with a layered chevron on the side.
• philadelphia_rainbow_pride_colors — Rainbow flag variant with 8 stripes, with black and brown at the top.
• 1978_rainbow_pride_colors — Rainbow flag variant with 8 stripes, with pink at the top and teal included.
• seven-stripe_rainbow_pride_colors — Rainbow flag variant with 7 stripes, with teal included.
• six-stripe_rainbow_pride_colors
• straight_ally_colors
• transgender_pride_colors
• rainbow_symbol
• rainbow_flag