Baker even assigned a meaning to each colour.
Whereas today's rainbow flag often has six colours, the original design had eight thanks to the inclusion of pink and turquoise stripes. The colors represent the fur colors and nationalities of bears throughout the world and the flag was designed with inclusivity in mind. Designed by Gilbert Baker, the original gay pride flag first flew at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on 25 June 1978. The winning design (a version created by Paul Witzkoske) is a field of simple horizontal stripes with a paw print in the upper left corner - a layout similar to the Leather flag. Johnson handing out flyers in New York City in 1970.
Espaol: Bandera arco iris original con las 8. Over the next two years, the design was altered to its current, six-stripe version, but the flag’s all-inclusive message remained intact. Kansas-born, Gilbert was an army medic that went to San Francisco on assignment and remained there after his service ended in 1972. English: Original eight-stripe rainbow flag for the 1978 Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco. Milk went on to ride under the original, eight-striped rainbow pride flag at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade in June 1978, just months before he was assassinated. Four variations were sewing machine-constructed and Byrnes won approval to display the four 3-by-5-foot (0.9 m × 1.5 m) prototype flags at the Chesapeake Bay "Bears of Summer" events in July 1995. Gilbert Baker, a gay man and drag queen from San Francisco, created the first iteration of the Pride flag in 1978. To do this, he received help from another influential member of the bear cultural community. He thought it might be fitting to design a flag that would best represent the bear community and include it with the results of his research. Byrnes' undergraduate degree in psychology involved designing a senior project about the bear culture that has exploded since the early 1980s, of which he had first-hand experience. Gilbert Baker and thirty volunteers hand-stitched and. Craig Byrnes created the bear flag in 1995. The Rainbow Flag first appeared on 25 June 1978 at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade.