The final black stripe represents those who feel they are without gender, as black is the photological absence of color and/or light.” The nonbinary flag and the genderqueer flag are both options for nonbinary people to use to symbolize themselves and take different approaches to how to symbolize nonbinary genders. In 1978, though, a gay artist and civil rights activist Gilbert Baker, alongside the Grove Street gay community in San Francisco, made the first rainbow pride flag as a response to an anti-gay. The purple could also be seen as representing the fluidity and uniqueness of nonbinary people. The purple stripe represents those who feel their gender is between or a mix of female and male, as purple is the mix of traditional boy and girl colors. White represents those who have many or all genders, as white is the photological presence of color and/or light. Yellow represents those whose gender exists outside of and without reference to the binary, as yellow is often used to distinguish something as its own. This flag was intended to go alongside Marilyn Roxie’s genderqueer flag rather than replace it. Kye Rowan designed the nonbinary flag in 2014. TriPride has not discovered the original creator. The raised fist was added to the six-striped flag and includes various shades of brown and a white stripe to represent the various colors of the “human rainbow.” The flag’s use has mostly been in the digital sphere, but it was flown at the 2019 San Francisco Pride. God’s rainbow represents His goodness, His mercy and grace, His love and longsuffering, and, most of all, it is a reminder that His promises are true and. Each color also corresponds with a universal spiritual principle in LGBT history and culture. Interestingly, according to Strong’s Dictionary, even the word rainbow has seven letters (qesheth). The prayer matches the colors of the rainbow flag with the seven models of the queer Christ. Historically, the raised fist has served as an emblem of solidarity and support as well as an expression of unity, strength, defiance, and resistance. God created the rainbow and it belongs to Him. Johnson, the black drag queen thought to have thrown the first brick at the Stonewall Inn Riots). The flag represents queer people of color (QPOC) and how the black community and the queer community are often woven together, both currently and in the earliest days of the Queer Liberation Movement (see Marsha P.
Though it may have been used before, 2020 saw the display of the QPOC Pride Flag rise in popularity in the broader queer community as a sign of solidarity with Black Lives Matter demonstrations seen across the country and world.