International Pride Day is celebrated every June 28, although June is generally considered LGBT pride month.
In this month, activities and marches are carried out mainly to reaffirm the sense of pride of all repressed and marginalized sexual identities and orientations throughout history due to an imposed heteronormativity, it is common to see flags of many colors that make up this broad community, but each one with its own meanings.
LGBT+ pride
LGBT is the acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, a community that groups people who have these sexual or other gender preferences.
However, the ‘+’ sign has been adapted to the LGBT acronym to include other communities, such as queer, asexual, intersex, among many others.
LGBT+ flag colors
It is sometimes called a flag because it takes as inspiration the colors that naturally appear in it, but adapting only six colors in the current flag:
- Red: life
- Orange: health
- Yellow: sunlight
- Green: nature
- Blue: serenity
- Violet: spirit
lesbian pride
It is curious that the word lesbian comes from the island of Lesbos, Greece, where the poetess Sappho described her love for women in poems, for this reason the word lesbian is used to refer to female homosexuality.
Lesbian flag colors
There is no official lesbian pride flag, as there are several that are used as representation, but the most used one has seven stripes of different colors:
- Red: gender nonconformity
- Orange: independence
- Melon: community
- White: unique relationships with femininity
- Pink: serenity and peace
- Purple: love and sex
- Fuchsia: femininity
Gay pride
Although previously defined as male homosexuals, the term gay is most popularly used to indicate men who are romantically and sexually attracted to other men.
Gay flag colors
When talking about gay pride, an association is usually made with the generic flag of LGBT+ pride, for this reason several flags have been proposed as representation, one of which has seven colors:
- Turquoise: community
- Green: healing
- Light green: fun
- White: non-normative gender expression
- Light Blue: pure love
- Purple: strength
- Violet: diversity
bisexual pride
Bisexuality is an orientation that indicates the individual is attracted to people of the opposite sex, but also of the same sex, although not necessarily on the same level.
It is usually indicated that bisexuality is a transition towards homosexuality, when in reality this is not the case, which is why it is intended to give more visibility with its flag.
Bisexual flag colors
The bisexual flag was created by Michael Page in 1998 to represent all those belonging to the bisexual community, with the meaning of its colors being quite simple:
- Magenta: attraction towards the same gender
- Blue: attraction to the opposite gender
- Lavender: represents bisexuality in general
transsexual pride
To talk about transsexuality is to refer to a process through which people feel that they have an identity different from the gender assigned to them at birth.
Physical characteristics of the handsome sex are then acquired, either through hormonal and/or surgical treatments to physically reflect how they feel internally.
Transgender flag colors
Monica Helms was the transgender woman who designed the most accepted and exhibited trans flag, as there are several, which has five stripes with three colors:
- Sky blue: male sex
- Pink: female sex
- White: gender neutral
intersex pride
A person is designated as intersex when they have characteristics, genitals and/or sexual organs of both sexes, that is, both a woman and a man, which vary from greater to lesser degree.
Something that draws a lot of attention is that this condition can be noticed from birth or develop throughout the life of the human being (especially between childhood and adolescence), and sometimes it even turns out not to be visible on an external level. .
Intersex flag colors
This flag was created in 2013 by Australian Morgan Capenter, who made it known that the circle represents simplicity and wholeness, alluding to the fact that all intersex people deserve to keep their bodies intact until they are able to make the decision to change it. or leave it like this:
- Yellow: hermaphrodite or neutral color
- Purple: different and powerful
nonbinary pride
Also related to genderqueer and other genres, it is a term that has been adopted by those who do not identify with traditional genders.
In other words, individuals are not limited to the established feminine and masculine genders, since their identification can go beyond that.
Nonbinary flag colors
Although there are different non-binary identities with their own flag, they share some colors along with their meanings of this flag of four stripes and colors:
- Yellow: gender separated from binary
- White: all genres
- Lilac: a mixture of the feminine and masculine gender
- Black: no gender
pansexual pride
Pansexuality is considered, on the one hand, as a sexual orientation in itself, but on the other hand a branch of bisexuality, although it differs from the latter as people are attracted to any gender.
Someone who identifies as pansexual can feel attracted to another person regardless of their sex and what gender they identify with, what really matters is that they are a human being.
Pansexual flag colors
Since the 90s, pansexuality has become more known, since since then and still today, famous people have openly declared themselves pansexual, represented with the following colors:
- Pink: femininity
- Yellow: nonbinary
- Blue: masculinity
asexual pride
There are those who point out asexuality as a disorder, the truth is that the asexual community, which is characterized by lack or low sexual attraction, even no desire to engage in sexual activities, asks for it to be recognized as a sexual orientation.
It is estimated that 1% of the population is asexual, and although there are many questions that arise regarding those who identify as such, one of the most common is whether they have a partner, and the answer is yes, well. It is possible to lead a romantic life as a couple, without this involving sex.
Asexual flag colors
The asexual flag is divided into four stripes of the same size with four colors that have meanings that represent asexual pride:
- Black: asexuality
- Grey: asexual individual
- White: asexuality as sexuality
- Purple: asexual collective