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The rainbow flag forms the
basis for many different, in part localized, variants.
Marcus Schmöger, 26 Aug 2001
This seems to be a fairly consistent pattern — taking
an existing flag and “merging” it with the
Rainbow Flag or various GLBT [gay,
lesbian, bissexual and transgendered] symbols to represent
GLBT members of the group the existing flag represents.
Steve Kramer, 16 Mar 1999
I suppose there will be many more [rainbow variation
flags] like the Maryland one
at that will to be known or developed and then known.
Steve Stringfellow, 16 Mar 1999
This
web page GayJourney.COM
has an awful lot of gay flags, which are mostly variations on other flags,
including all US states, all Canadian provinces, and many nations. Most of
these, with «GJ» underneath, were designed by the
site’s author, Greg Gomes. It is hard to say how many of these are
flying somewhere.
Richard Knipel, 14 Jun 2004
At GayJourney.COM,
lots of rainbows: from Argentina to Wales, EU, UNO, US states,
Canadian provinces and general gay flags. Perhaps not all of these
flags are actually used in the real word.
Francisco Santos, 14 May 2003
In Amsterdam one can’t help noticing in the Red Light quarter gay and lesbian flags. They are apparently used to give info to potential customers:
Some variations in adornment include:
A pink triangle is sometimes
located in the hoist of the Pride Flag.
Don Hagemann, 04 May 1996
During the renovation of Montreal’s
(Canada) metro (subway) system in 1999-2000, the access to Beaudry metro, the
station serving the gay village, was torn down and replaced with a beautiful
new building with the colours of the gay pride flag integrated into it. To my
knowledge this is one of the only public buildings in the world so
decorated. You can see a picture of it
here.
Matt McLauchlin, 11 Dec 2001
Of course, this flag doesn’t exactly have official specifications,
but it seems to have become sufficiently common for this variation to be
worth noting:
The legalising of gay marriage in Spain was reported on The World
on BBC4 tv tonight (30 June 2005). There were many shots of people holding the
gay pride rainbow flag, but the colours were slightly different to what
we show, with a lighter blue for the fifth
stripe and a much darker sixth stripe — much closer, in fact,
to the “indigo” (as it’s called in English) of a
real rainbow. However, a gay activist who was
interviewed was wearing a badge which showed the colours
as we show.
André Coutanche, 30 Jun 2005
This is the rainbow flag with an added black stripe to be aware
of AIDS called «Victory over AIDS» flag. See for example
here
and here.
Marcus Schmöger, 26 Aug 2001
Black: AIDS awareness; this stripe will be removed, as soon as
a cure is found against AIDS.
Marcus Schmöger, 26 Aug 2001, translating from
EuroGay.NET
The Victory Over AIDS Flag modifies the rainbow flag by adding a black
stripe at the bottom. Suggested by a San Francisco group, the black
stripe commemorates those we have lost to AIDS. Sergeant Leonard
Matlovich, a much-decorated Vietnam Veteran dying of AIDS, proposed
that when a cure is eventually found the black stripes should be removed
from all the flags and ceremoniously burned in Washington, D.C.
Marcus Schmöger, 26 Aug 2001,
quoting from
this page
Reportedly, gay leather aficionados might
also modify a rainbow flag to have a black stripe instead of a violet one.
(However, this version might be confused with the «Victory
Over AIDS» version of the rainbow flag, as they are similar.)
Marcus Schmöger, 24 Aug 2001,
quoting from
this page
A variant of the rainbow flag for “leathermen”. The two lower
stripes (blue and black) refer to the respective colours of the
leather pride flag.
Marcus Schmöger, 24 Aug 2001,
quoting from
this page
Raibow flag with white stripe vertically in the
hoist, to denote that «all are included».
Steve Kramer, 06 May 1996
A flag used during Stockholm Pride Festival in Stockholm, Sweden, was
like the Rainbow flag with red on top but with a
white vertical stripe along the fly with the text "STOCKHOLM
PRIDE" in sans serif letters of which the word "PRIDE"
was in bold letters.
Elias Granqvist, 02 Aug 2004
This the rainbow flag with an inserted triangle in the same colours.
The (usually pink) triangle is one of the
well-known symbols of the gay community. This flag thus combines the
rainbow colours with the triangle. See examples
here.
Marcus Schmöger, 26 Aug 2001
A labrys (double-headed axe) is another lesbian symbol
and is sometimes included, usually centered on the field of
the rainbow flag.
Steve Kramer, 06 May 1996
Gay flag variant: rainbow flag with circle in center containing
a a natural (not map) world globe showing America, Europa and Africa.
(Communication from José Luís Cepero.)
Jaume Ollé, 05 Jun 2000 and 24 Jun 2000
I think by «natural» he means a space-eye photo of earth (like on
this flag). (Just a guess though.)
David Kendall, 31 Mar 2005
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Chicago held it’s Northalsted Market Days this weekend, the
largest of Chicago’s summer street fairs. There were a lot of
flags to see. The most prevelent was the gay Rainbow flag in
several different varieties (including one with a smiley face
on it) and a few other gay flags (since this is the gay mecca
of the city).
Steve Stringfellow, 10 Aug 1998
This is the rainbow flag with a cowboy hat for “gay cowboys”.
This was created by “Cowboy Frank”. See
CowboyFrank.NET.
Marcus Schmöger, 26 Aug 2001
This is a variant of the rainbow flag with a black heart and black
bones (like in the Jolly Roger). Seen at the
Christopher Street Day Parade 2001 in Munich; it seemed to me
home-made.
Marcus Schmöger, 24 Aug 2001
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