HRC updates rainbow flag to include brown & black stripes
The Human Rights Campaign has installed a rainbow flag window cling at their new DC headquarters. The flag is a recent version with brown and black stripes added to be more inclusive of people of color. First adopted by the city of Philadelphia, the updated flag has proven controversial, but other (LGBTQ) organizations around the world have now announced they will use the updated version.
The pride flag was the brainchild of Gilbert Baker, who created the iconic design in 1978. The flag initially had a total of eight stripes, each one symbolizing an aspect of the movement.
Earlier this year, Daniel Quasar proposed a new, “progress”-focused design for the rainbow flag. The design puts white, pink, light blue, brown, and black stripes in an arrow on the left on top of the six-striped rainbow flag.
The light blue, pink, and white stripes on the left come from the transgender flag. The brown and black stripes represent people of color, “as well as those living with AIDS, those no longer living, and the stigma surrounding them,” Quasar writes.
The new stripes are in the form of an arrow pointing right “to show forward movement.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/08/hrc-updates-rainbow-flag-include-brown-black-stripes-dc-headquarters/
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