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[–] 16 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Yes, they both show the color spectrum in order of shortest wavelength at the top to longest at the bottom

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    Actually the Pride flag has red on top, this image is not accurate.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    The first, albeit short lived, pride flag was similar to the colours as above, though reversed with pink at the top (Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Turquoise, Indigo, Violet). It was soon after that the pink was removed due to cost/availability (can't remember exactly off the top of my head).

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Pink was removed so that there would be six colors. This was done so that when the flag was hung on lamp-posts as a banner, there would be three colors on each side, iirc

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It seems that the turquoise stripe was dropped, ..."to create an even number of stripes for display on each side of the streetlamps on Market Street for the 1979 Gay Freedom Day parade."

    https://www.glbthistory.org/rainbow-flag

    The pink was due to availability by the Paramount Flag Company when they started being made beyond what could be handmade.

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