Then people started “well red is this, yellow is that, green is that …”

But the stripes always meant something:

Hot pink = Sex Red = Life
Orange = Healing Yellow = Sunlight
Green = Nature Turquoise = Magic/Art Indigo = Serenity Violet = Spirit

Flags being symbolic was never the issue. The progress flag was made in lieu of black, trans, and intersex queer USAmericans being excluded from big, corporate backed, pride events, which brought to the fore, a slew of intra-queer tensions.

By making this new flag, it was a way of symbolically coming together. And it’s stuck around because of, well… Everything going on lately.