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We’re just a couple of days away from the start of our LGBT 50 celebrations and the city is beaming with colour. From the rainbow flags flying high above buildings and the police cars proudly sporting their new rainbow wrap, to the floral designs brightening up billboards, lampposts, and Sewell Group’s service stations and vans, there’s colour everywhere in Hull. But what does it mean?
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The rainbow flag is a globally recognised symbol for gay pride and our diverse LGBT+ communities. This iconic design first appeared during the 1970s, when American politician Harvey Milk – the first openly gay person to hold high public office in a US city – challenged artist Gilbert Baker to create a positive symbol of pride for the gay community.
Designed as an alternative to the pink triangle, which was used by Nazis to identify and persecute homosexuals, Baker stitched together strips of colour for his new flag, each with a different meaning. Hot pink for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise blue for art, indigo for harmony and violet for spirit. The flags were flown for the first time at the Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco in 1978 and have been flying high ever since.
This wasn’t the end of the pink triangle, however. Founded in the 1980s, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) group adopted the pink triangle, inverting the symbol and adding the slogan ‘SILENCE = DEATH’ in a statement of empowerment in the face of homophobia and HIV stigma.
So with so much LGBT+ symbolism out there, you might have been wondering why this year, alongside the rainbow flag and pink triangle, we’ve been branding the city in beautiful flowers. The collection of flowers in our LGBT 50 artwork isn’t just a happy accident – the flowers have been picked for a reason, each with their own symbolism and hidden meaning…