pride has always been *** moment of great, you know, um visibility for our community. That's the important thing to say. We're here, we're out. We're proud of who we are. We're not going back, we're not going back in the closet. The pride flag is an easily recognizable symbol today, But it didn't always exist to tell the story of the pride flag. We have to go back to 1978. It was then in San Francisco, an openly gay politician, Harvey milk commissioned artist Gilbert Baker to create *** symbol of visibility and pride for members of the gay community. Milk, who had become an outspoken leader in the gay community through his camera shop and brave political campaigns helped ignite the movement for gay rights. Milk and baker wanted to create *** flag that unapologetically proclaimed this is who I am inspired by the colors of the rainbow baker assigned *** meaning to each color. Pink for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for magic and art, indigo for harmony and violet for spirit. And the first pride flag flew on june 25th, 1978 sadly Milk was assassinated in november of that year, fearing that he would be killed. Milk recorded *** tape in which he said, If *** bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door. The night of his assassination, his nephew Stuart Milk came out of that closet And since then has continued Harvey's fight for gay rights. Milk's legacy lives on through the pride flag, which over the years has greatly evolved in 1979, pink was dropped due to the difficulty of finding the fabric Turquoise was also eliminated, leaving the flag with six stripes so that the flag could be evenly split in half. For *** march. In response to Milk's death, The six color flag became the most common flag worldwide. In 2017, the flag added black and brown stripes. The stripes represent the contributions of people of color and was unveiled at the philadelphia pride parade. That year. In 2019, artist Daniel Quasars launched *** Kickstarter for *** new design known as the progress flag. He wanted to deepen the meaning by including white, blue and pink stripes that represented the trans community in 2020 the Q P. O. C. Flag was created to stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. It grew in popularity in 2020 because of the notion that there is *** considerable overlap in both of those communities. In 2021, Valentino Vecchi et designed the intersex inclusive progress pride flag to include intersex people. Over time, the pride flag is branched off into other flags, giving visibility to specific identities within the community. The bisexual flag was created in 1998 by Michael Page. The three colors, an overlap of blue and pink represent attraction to the same, different and multiple genders. The transgender flag was designed in 1999 by Monica helms. This flag takes the traditional baby blue and pink for boys and girls and white meaning intersects or neutral by flying the colors together. It shows always finding correctness in our lives and being correct in one agenda, The pan sexual flag was popularized in 2010 by creator Jasper V. It represents attraction to all genders. The *** sexual flag came about from the group haven. It took inspiration from an ace of spades playing card. The Demi sexual flag represents individuals who require an emotional bond before attraction. It shares common colors with the *** sexual flag and includes *** black triangle. Omni sexual feel attraction to all genders individually. It uses shades of pink, blue and dark purple to represent those identities individually. The lesbian pride flag is the most widely used flag in the lesbian community. It's seven colors represent the following from top to bottom gender, Nonconformity, independence community, unique relationships to womanhood, serenity and peace. Love and sex and femininity. The gender queer flag was created in 2011 by Maryland Roxy. The three colors lavender, white and chartreuse green represent androgyny gender neutrality and people without identities respectively. The non binary flag was created in 2014 by Kyle Rowland who didn't feel represented by the gender queer flag. The color show yellow meaning people identifying outside of the cis gender by name. The intersex flag was created as *** rejection of the gender stereotypes of blue and pink. In 2013 Morgen Carpenter created *** flag using *** purple circle and yellow background to show wholeness and completeness. The gender fluid flag was created by J. J. Pool in response to the gender queer flag feeling too broad. The pink, white, purple, black and blue represent femininity, *** gender combinations of both. All other genders and masculinity, respectively. The age gender flag followed in 2014 via online discussions. Black, white, gray and green represent the range of absence of gender to non binary identities. The two spirit flag is used to identify queer native americans and relate to traditional leadership and healing roles that occupy *** third gender in many indigenous north american cultures, the two feathers are masculine and feminine, joined by *** circle that shows unification into another gender as the L. G. B. T. Q. Community continues having dialogues. New flags will continue to emerge and fly under the original rainbow banner. To date, there are over 50 pride flags in existence. These symbols serve an important reminder that they are valid and visible to others.