Rainbow Gay Pride On White Tie

Rainbow colour "PRIDE" text on white. The colours on the Rainbow Flag reflect the diversity of the LGBT community. When Baker raised the first rainbow flags at San Francisco Pride (his group raised two flags at the Civic Centre) on June 25, 1978, it comprised eight symbolic colours. The design has undergone several revisions to remove two colours for expediency and later re-add those colours when they became more widely available. As of 2008, the most common variant consists of six stripes, with the colours red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Baker referred to this version of the flag as the "commercial version", because it came about due to practical considerations of mass production.[21] Specifically, the rainbow flag lost its hot pink stripe when Baker approached the Paramount Flag Company to begin mass-producing them, and the hot pink fabric was too rare and expensive to include. The rainbow flag lost its turquoise stripe before the 1979 Gay Freedom Day Parade, as the committee organizing the parade wanted to fly the flag in two halves, from the light poles along both sides of Market Street, so it became a six-striped flag with equal halves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Baker_(artist)