The courts ruled in Stouts favour, and so started worldwide notice of the flag. It wouldn’t be until 1989 that the flag would gain real prominence after John Stout sued his landlord over a refusal to allow him to fly the flag from his home in West Hollywood. It was decided that the turquoise stripe would be removed, and indigo replaced by Royal Blue, leaving the six coloured flag of today. It was decided that the easiest way to rectify this problem was to remove one of the stripes so an even number of stripes were present. However the middle colour – green – was obscured when hung vertically by the lampposts themselves. The flag was raised from lampposts in Market Street in San Francisco. The flag underwent another change the following year, 1979. The second iteration of the flag from 1978 Each colour represented a colour of the rainbow and stood for the something. The original flag designed by Gilbert actually contained 8 colours, as opposed to the now synonymous 6 coloured flag. It is believed he got the idea for the flag from Judy Garland’s song Somewhere Over the Rainbow and the Stonewall Riots, which took place days after her death. The first gay pride flag flew on on Jin San Francisco for the Gay Freedom Day Parade.
But what is the history behind this multicoloured flag, and how did it become the symbol of Pride? It is a symbol of love, a symbol of connectedness and a symbol of hope, that one day all the fighting will pay off. The Rainbow Flag is the most common and the most well known symbol of the LGBT Community.