{"id":10797,"date":"2021-06-10T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=10797"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:36:16","slug":"flag-lgtbi-6-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/flag-lgtbi-6-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does the LGTBI+ flag have 6 colours?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Surely we have all seen it and know how to identify it. Perhaps we won’t be able to place the stripes in the right order, or say exactly which colours make it up, but it is unmistakable. What not everyone knows is that it has not always looked the same, we explain why.<\/b><\/h3>\n

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LGTBI+ Pride Day is celebrated internationally on 28 June to commemorate the Stonewall Pub riots in New York in 1969. That day is considered to have marked the beginning of the gay community’s struggle when they stood up and demonstrated against a police raid on the premises.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, every year there have been demonstrations, marches and parties to celebrate the uprising of a struggle that until then they had not dared to carry out. And in all these events we can see every year all over the world, there is an image, a symbol, that unites them: the <\/span>rainbow flag<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The birth of a symbol of protest<\/b><\/h2>\n

The idea for the flag came from activist <\/span>Harvey Milk<\/b>, who asked artist Gilbert Baker to create a recognisable emblem for the community. In this way, they abandoned the pink triangle that had been used in Nazi concentration camps to mark homosexuals, and which up to that time had been used as a symbol of vindication for the collective.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US bicentennial celebration and the song “Over the rainbow” are two versions of what might have inspired the creation of this colourful flag, which originally had 8 stripes, and which needed <\/span>30 volunteers to dye and sew <\/b>the first two that were made.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was first displayed in San Francisco on 25 June 1978 and became the most important and popular symbol of the gay community when the ideologue, Harvey Milk, was assassinated in November of the same year. Since then, the rainbow flag has undergone several modifications.<\/span><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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