However, those claims have since been debunked, and the flag became increasingly accepted within the community. The different shades of red and pink on the flag apparently represented different shades of lipstick. Introduced in a blog called The Lesbian Life in 2010, the lipstick lesbian flag was meant to represent feminine lesbians. This 5-coloured (and sometimes 7-coloured) gay men pride flag was designed in 2019 by Tumblr user but it wasn’t without controversy.Īccusations that the creator of the flag is transphobic, and that the design was stolen from the sunset lesbian flag, were rampant. The lesbian pride flag is derived from the lipstick lesbian flag, which contained a red kiss on the top left-hand corner. The flag was made to represent the LGBTQ community collectively. It was initially created by the late artist and activist Gilbert Baker in 1978 following the election of Harvey Milk, the first-ever gay person to be elected to office as San Francisco city supervisor in California. Over time, demand grew for a flag that specifically represents gay men. Gilbert Baker’s Pride flag in 1994 New York City. The (cis, white) gay man has always been at the centre of pride movements, but as people opened their minds to include all LGBTQ+ identities in the movement, the rainbow flag increasingly solidified its position as one that represents the entire LGBTQ+ community.
