1978 Pride Flag History Tank Top

Pay homage to decades of queer history with this 1978 Pride Flag History Tank Top. Featuring the first, original, and iconic Pride flag, this tank is a perfect tribute to the evolution of the LGBTQIA+ community. Celebrate in style with this timeless piece.🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

The detailed text graphic tells the origin story of the very first Rainbow Pride Flag:

The first rainbow flag was created by Gilbert Baker,a prominent figure among gay political activists in San Francisco in the 1970s. The new flag made its big debut at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978, in the form of what Baker described as a new symbol for “the dawn of a new gay consciousness and freedom.” According to a profile published in the Bay Area Reporter in 1985, Baker “chose the rainbow motif because of its associations with the hippie movement of the Sixties but he notes that the use of the design dates all the way back to ancient Egypt.” Baker was likely influenced by the “Flag of the Races” (with five horizontal stripes: red, white, brown, yellow, and black) popular among the World peace and Hippie movement of the 1960s.Baker collaborated with his friend Lynn Segerblom (also known as Faerie Argyle Rainbow) to design the rainbow-striped flag with eight colors. The first rainbow flags commissioned by the fledgling San Francisco pride committee were produced by a team of thirty volunteers who hand-dyed and stitched the first two flags for the parade. The original flag design had eight stripes, with a specific meaning assigned to each of the colors: pink to represent sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise for magic and art, blue for serenity and purple for spirit.

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