Original Pride Flag and Sewing Machine Used to Make It?
Feb 13,2024
An archived Tumblr post from user shows a picture of a museum display with what appears to be the original Pride flag from artist Gilbert Baker in 1978, along with the sewing machine he used to make it.
An archived Tumblr post from user shows a picture of a museum display with what appears to be the original Pride flag from artist Gilbert Baker in 1978, along with the sewing machine he used to make it. The flag in the display case contains eight colors, as opposed to the six that are seen in modern Pride flags.
According to a blog post from the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, "A BRIEF HISTORY OF OUR LGBTQIA2-S PRIDE FLAG," turquoise and pink were removed from the original design because it made the flags expensive to mass produce. The post states:
"Baker and (Lynn) Segerblom's flag debuted at the Gay Freedom Day Parade in SF in 1978. Each of the original eight colors had their own unique symbolism. Hot pink: sex; Red: life; Orange: healing; Yellow: sunlight; Green: nature; Turquoise: magic and art; Indigo: serenity; and Violet: spirit. The original flag's hot pink and turquoise stripes were soon removed because of difficulty manufacturing and/or dying the fabric, resulting in the six-color rainbow flag we are familiar with today."
After running the picture through Google reverse-image, we found the same photo featured in a Metro Weekly article entitled "Newseum's 'Rise Up' and the Hamilton's Newsroom Suite offer memorable LGBTQ experiences." When compared, the two were essentially identical. The Metro Weekly article captioned the photo, "2019 Rise Up exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, D.C."
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