Bisexual pride flag
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The bisexual pride flag is a flag design representing the bisexual community. It was designed in 1998.
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[edit] History of the flag
The flag's designer, Michael Page, wanted to give the bisexual community its own symbol, comparable to the successful use of the rainbow flag by the entire LGBT community, in order to increase the visibility of the bisexual community within both the LGBT and straight communities.
Other symbols in use at the time (such as the common overlapping inverted pink and blue triangles) were either not suitable for the same uses as a flag or were trademarks.
The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (gay and lesbian), the blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (straight) and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes (bi).
[edit] Design of the flag
- A "pink" (actually magenta) (Pantone 226, CMYK(0,100,0,0)) stripe representing homosexual orientation is at the top of the flag.
- A blue (Pantone 286) stripe representing heterosexual orientation is at the bottom of the flag.
- The stripes overlap in the central one-fifth of the flag to form a deep shade of Lavender (Pantone 258, CMYK(43,76,0,0), RGB(115,79,80), Hex#734F96) stripe representing the combination of both orientations.
The flag's aspect ratio is not fixed, but generally shown as either 3:2 or 5:3.
[edit] Color bands of bisexual pride flag colors with color codes
- Pantone Color #226--Magenta (Hex: #D70270) (RGB: 215, 2, 112)
- Pantone Color #258--Deep Lavender (Hex: #734F96) (RGB: 115, 79, 150) (CMYK: 43,76,0,0)
- Pantone Color #286--Blue (Hex: #0038A8) (RGB: 0, 56, 168)
