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LGBTQ+ Pride Flags

In the LGBTQ+ community, we signify our pride with flags. With many unlike identities in the group, there comes many alternative flags to know. We have collected all of the flags and a guide to learn about all of the diverse colors of our community’s rainbow. We know that this may not be all of the flags that represent our collective, but we will update the page as modern flags become popular!

Explore the flag collection below! Spot a flag's name by hovering or clicking on the flag.

Umbrella Flags

  • Gilbert Baker Pride Flag

  • Traditional Pride Flag

  • Philadelphia Pride Flag

  • Progress Pride Flag

  • Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag

  • Queer Pride Flag

The original Pride Flag was created in 1978 after activist Harvey Milk asked artist Gilbert Baker to design a symbol of gay pride. Each color represents a unlike part of the

What do the colors of the Progress Pride and Philadelphia Pride flags represent?

Can you imagine a Pride Month without rainbows?

It wasn't until 1978 that Gilbert Baker created the original Pride flag. Gilbert’s striped flag was inspired by past rebellions, including the American and French Revolution. "I thought a queer nation should own a flag too, to proclaim its own idea of power," he said, according to the Gilbert Baker Foundation.

Today, the rainbow flag is a symbol of joy, celebration and the persistence of the LGBTQ community in the face of discrimination and anti-LGBTQ legislation. Over the years, updates are an homage to the past and a gesture toward the future. 

Here are two redesigned flags that add nuance and honor marginalized groups in the LGBTQ+ community.

What undertake the colors of the Progress Identity festival flag mean?

The Progress Pride flag is a reimagined take on the traditional celebration flag, which has six colored stripes in the arrange of the rainbow. The progress event flag includes shadowy , brown, blue, pink and white in a chevron layout on top of the rainbow colors. 

The six rainbow colors altogether symbolize wish, but have individual meanings:

  • Red: Life
  • Orange: Restore

    The largest Progress Pride flag in the U.S. will return and be even larger in 2025 as Philadelphia's LGBTQ+ community and allies gather for the Philadelphia Pride March and Festival.

    Organizers with Philly Pride 365 have already announced a ton of plans for the kickoff weekend starting Friday, May 30, but more announcements are coming in the next one to two weeks, including performers, stage locations and food truck and vendor lists.

    The group says this year's Movement Month is extra special in Philadelphia — it marks 50 years since former Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp signed an executive order making the Keystone Declare the first to prohibit discrimination toward LGBTQ+ state employees. The order was later expanded to include state contractors as well.

    Advocates have called for the Pennsylvania Senate to pass the Fairness Act, a bill that ensures equal protections for LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians.

    When is the 2025 Philadelphia Identity festival March?

    Pride Weekend in Philadelphia features several events leading up to the June 1 Pride Parade, not a parade.

    Things kick off with the Pride Around the City event on Friday, May 30. During this event, the massive Progress Pride flag will mak

    Record-breaking flag kicks off Pride festivities in Philadelphia

    PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art became the backdrop of the big rollout of Pride Month festivities in the city. Dozens of people walked down the steps holding a Pride flag that measured hundreds of feet long.

    "It celebrates inclusivity. It celebrates obviously the launch of Event Month," said Sasha Suda, Director and CEO of Philadelphia Museum of Art.

    Cascading down the Art Museum steps, the flag is America's largest Progress Celebration Rainbow Flag.

    "Each year for three years we add on 200 feet. Which means this year we have a total of 600 feet which amounts to a block and a half," said Philly Self-acceptance 365 Executive Producer Jeremy Williams.

    Philly Lgbtq+ fest 365 is spearheading this year's event celebrations with facilitate from several groups. One of their goals was to spread the note of love and acceptance by taking the flag to more neighborhoods across the city including Manayunk where the flag flowed down Main Street.

    "We wanted to do Celebration around the town, because it's not just about entity around the Gayborhood," said Williams.

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