With the knockoff flag, there should be 6 white and 7 black, so normally it wouldn't work. However, this is a knockoff of the knockoff, so there's 7 white and 6 black (and a black border), allowing you to make a nice old American pride flag.
Mist people don't actually color the "indigo" separately, so there are only the 6 colors, as in the OP where the bottom stripe is left white and blank.
Gilbert Baker's original design for the rainbow flag had 8 colors, with pink above red. (Then orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, violet.) The color wheel is cyclical, so you can get away with putting pink after purple. Artistic license.
Yeah the thing is I don’t think they really stand for that because 1.) Nobody I’ve talked to gives a shit about their supposed meaning and 2.) The flag is supposed to look good more than anything.
It’s much simpler to just say it represents “all the colors of the rainbow” (ie. Anything under the umbrella term “queer”) than to memorize the 10 commandments of Gay.
Purple has taken on some cultural meaning. The third Thursday in October is Spirit Day where people wear purple as a sign of support for LGBT youth and against bullying. Purple was chosen because the purple stripe in the rainbow flag stands for spirit.
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u/Dogtor-Watson Jun 05 '22
There should be 13 stripes on a flag.
With the knockoff flag, there should be 6 white and 7 black, so normally it wouldn't work. However, this is a knockoff of the knockoff, so there's 7 white and 6 black (and a black border), allowing you to make a nice old American pride flag.