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Gay Pride / Rainbow Flag (3)

Sexual Orientation Flags

image by António Martins, 20 April 1999

Replacement by single-color flags

Six-striped version
Seven-striped version
Eight-striped version

See also:

External links:

A detailed explanation
reported by M. Schmöger, 26 August 2001
Duhov vlajka (in Czech)
reported by Jarig Bakker, 6 August 2002

Replacement by single-color flags

Six-striped version



images by Tomislav Todorović, 18 June 2017

These images show the color shades which seem to appear the most frequently, as well as a typical ratio.

The Gay Pride / Rainbow Flag is frequently replaced with the set of six plain flags, each in one of its colors. The color shades vary a lot, just like they do when appearing together on a single flag, and the same is true about the ratio. Also, two or more sets of these flags are often used together. One of the earliest recorded examples of their use was in Manchester, England, at Manchester Pride 2001. The flags have appeared again at Amsterdam Pride 2002. There are currently no available photos from Amsterdam from the following years until 2014, when they were photographed again, which does not necessarily mean that they were not in use during that period. The flags were also seen at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade 2008 and at the Taiwan LGBT Pride 2011, the photos from the event being available here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/68513806@N08/sets/72157627884289947.

In the USA, some of earliest examples date from 2007:

The flags were photographed in Minnesota, at the Twin Cities Pride 2007, with the photos being posted here and here, appearing at the same event in 2010 as well.
In Columbus, Ohio, they have also appeared in 2007. A set of unusual flags, made of transparent, gauze-like fabric, was used at the Columbus Pride 2007, and again in 2008, the photos from the event being available here and here. At the Columbus Pride 2009, similar flags, with additional "cravats" made of "feather boa," were used. They appeared at the same event in 2011 and again in 2012 as well as in 2014, the photos from that year being available here and here.Along with these flags, those made of more ordinary looking, "opaque" fabric could be seen. Those were used at the Columbus Pride 2009, the photos being posted here, here, and here, and again in 2013, the photos of those being available here and here.
In St Petersburg, Florida, the six flags set has appeared at the St Pete Pride 2010 and St Pete Pride 2011.
In Providence, Rhode Island, it was used at the Providence Pride 2010, the photos being available here and here, to be used again at the Rhode Island Pride 2014. It was also used at the Rhode Island Pride 2016, with the photos available here, here, and here.
In Indianapolis, Indiana, the flags were photographed at the Indy Pride 2011 and in Toledo, Ohio, at the Toledo Pride 2012.
In Portland, Oregon, the flags were photographed at the Portland Pride 2012, Portland Pride 2015, and Portland Pride 2016. Lastly, the photo from Easton Mountain resort, off Greenwich, New York, dates from 2015: http://www.manhattandigest.com/2015/05/12/easton-mountain-celebrates-15-years-next-weekend/.

Tomislav Todorović, 18 June 2017

One of the most recent replacements of the Gay Pride / Rainbow Flag with six plain flags is from the Columbus Pride 2016, with the photos available here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Tomislav Todorović, 20 June 2017

Seven-striped version

There re-introduction of 7-striped flag seem not to have inspired its replacement with the set of seven plain flags, except perhaps in one case - at Columbus Pride 2008, with the photos available here, here, here, and here.

However, the fact that there are two green flags, making the total number of eight, leaves the observer in doubt whether the original intention was to make a set of eight flags, the pink one having been found to be missing too lately, so it was replaced with a second green flag in the last moment. Still the fact that there were the flags in seven colors may be worth recording.
Tomislav Todorović, 20 June 2017

Eight-striped version

images by Tomislav Todorović, 19 June 2017
These images show the color shades which seem to appear the most frequently, as well as a typical ratio.

The re-introduction of 8-striped version of the Gay Rainbow Flag has also inspired a limited introduction of its replacement in form of the set of eight plain flags, modelled after the similar set made to replace the 6-striped flag (see above). Currently, all the known examples of its use are from Columbus, Ohio.

Photos from Columbus Pride 2011 can be found here, here, and here, and those from Columbus Pride 2012, here, here, here, here, and here.

The flags have appeared again at Columbus Pride 2013, with the photos available here, here, and here (there are many more, but those do not display all flags), and at Columbus Pride 2014, with the photos available here and here.
Tomislav Todorović, 19 June 2017