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Pride Month

The rainbow flag from 1 June: six stripes, each given a meaning by the artist who first sewed it in 1978.

Pride Month 2025, Lyon
Photo: John Samuel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The colours of Pride Month

June is Pride Month in many countries, and from the first of the month the rainbow flag appears on buildings, crossings and clothes. The flag was made by the artist Gilbert Baker for the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade of 1978. His first version had eight stripes, each with a meaning: hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for magic and art, indigo for serenity and violet for spirit. Pink and turquoise were dropped, partly because the pink fabric was hard to get, leaving the six stripes used today. The Progress flag of 2018, by Daniel Quasar, adds a chevron of black, brown, light blue, pink and white for people of colour and transgender people.

#E40303Life redFirst stripe: life.
#FF8C00Healing orangeSecond stripe: healing.
#FFED00Sunlight yellowThird stripe: sunlight.
#008026Nature greenFourth stripe: nature.
#24408ESerenity blueFifth stripe: serenity or harmony.
#732982Spirit violetSixth stripe: spirit.

Values are fair approximations, not official shades.

Read about the colours

VioletThe stripe for spirit.

Also part of it, and being written: Rainbow (The source of the flag.), Shades of pink (Hot pink was the first stripe of the original flag.).

About this page

Written by the Rang desk with AI assistance. Background: "Pride Month" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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