What do the colors of the rainbow flag mean anyways? Do they have meaning?
Indeed they do. Gilbert Baker, the creator of the flag, did indeed include meaning behind the colors he chose. The original flag had eight stripes when it was introduced. However, when San Francisco wanted to use it for their pride event the next year and wanted it mass produced they first ran into a problem with one of the colors availability. That color couldn’t easily be mass produced at the time. That dropped the flag to seven colors, but the event organizers wanted an even number of stripes for a specific part of the event in which a group would carry long strands of cloth of the colors. The even number of stripes would coordinate well with the street and the march/parade. So they dropped the seventh color leaving only six. They used that six colored flag and those six colors and the flag and colors spread to become international symbols in their own right. And while the six colored rainbow flag is still more popular, efforts have been made to reintroduce the flag with it’s origin
