The flag does not depict an actual rainbow | The and are used to symbolize asexuality and aromantic asexuality respectively |
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Further, sexualities may be to some degree arbitrarily assigned labels which may then be permuted | The two symbols most recognized internationally are the and the |
Many lesbians reclaimed this symbol for themselves as gay men reclaimed the pink triangle.
27The rainbow flag, commonly known as the gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag, is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender LGBT pride and LGBT social movements | The alliance's literature states that Doerr chose the symbol specifically for its denotative meaning in the context of chemistry and : "a complete exchange of energy—that moment or span of time witness to absolute activity" |
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Ah, yeah, that's a good reason short of adding multiple flags | Ace cards Due to the phonetic shortening from asexual to ace, are sometimes used to represent asexuality |
The white stripe is for people that are nonbinary, feel that they don't have a gender | Though the rainbow flag already represents all different kinds of sexual orientations other groups however wish to identify with special flags for various political reasons- but I believe it is unnecessary and burdensome to fill up code-points with symbols which may only be temporarily in vogue, and which may hold no meaning in 30 years |
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The lavender rhinoceros symbol was seen on signs, pins, and t-shirts at the Boston Pride Parade later in 1974, and a life-sized papier-mâché lavender rhinoceros was part of the parade | Their approximate HTML values are D60270, 9B4F96, 0038A8; their approximate RGB values are 214,2,112 , 155,79,150 , and 0,56,168 , respectively |
Above, I relied on sources that provided a wide overview, but obviously not a complete one.