Some of the flags that represent visibility for transgender and bisexual people are becoming almost as widely known as the original pride flag, Hartman said. 'We know that visibility is key to acceptance and legal rights and to changing hearts and minds,' Hartman said. In the years following the pride flag's creation, others have been created to represent identities that fall under the LGBTQ umbrella.įlying flags that celebrate each of the LGBTQ communities is an act of visibility, said Chris Hartman, director of the Kentucky Fairness Campaign in Louisville.
LGBTQ activists say it couldn't be more timely. Stonewall Forever: 50 years later, digital monument debuts. He never placed a copyright on the flag because he wanted it to 'owned by everyone,' Baker's friend Charles Beal told The Huffington Post in 2018.
