Rainbow Pride Flag

The Rainbow Pride Flag consists of six stripes of the rainbow but without indigo.   This was created by a San Francisco artist named Gilbert Baker in 1978.  The flag originally had the stripes of all the colors of the rainbow and one pink stripe; from top to bottom, it was pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet/purple, and indigo.    

Pink - sex, red - life, orange - healing, yellow - sunlight, green - nature, blue - art, indigo - serenity, and violet for spirit.  Later, pink was removed from the flag because of availability of fabric issues, so it became the seven colors of the rainbow.  In 1979, indigo was removed because of visibility reasons when posted on Market Street in San Francisco, so the current flag has six stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet/purple.