The foundation is named after Baker, a gay artist who died in 2017. At the Gilbert Baker Foundation, we are proud that they were all born of the rainbow flag." "We believe there is room in the sky for all of these flags and we encourage everyone to fly the flag that speaks to their soul. "While the Gilbert Baker Foundation was founded to celebrate the original rainbow flag, we believe that other queer Pride flags have tremendous significance," stated Charley Beal, president of the foundation. The city of Philadelphia created it in 2017 by adding black and brown stripes atop the rainbow flag to represent Black and Brown LGBTQ people. It features the standard six colors of the rainbow flag with a rightward-pointing chevron on its side made of black and brown stripes for people of color and the pink, blue and white stripes of the trans flag.Īnd the campaign is calling for an emoji of what it refers to as the More Colors Pride flag that is also known as the Philly Pride flag. "Emojis are such a huge part of how we express ourselves, and this Pride Month we want to make sure even more people in the LGBTQ+ community feel seen," stated Emily Clark, an associate creative director at Ogilvy.Īmong the emoji Pride flag options the campaign would like to see the Progress Pride flag created by Daniel Quasar in 2018.
The two agencies have launched an "Emojis of Pride" campaign to convince the consortium to update the Pride flag options with a total of 27 unique Pride flag designs.
Now the Gilbert Baker Foundation, in conjunction with the New York marketing and advertising firm Ogilvy, is seeking to see not only the bisexual flag be approved for use but also flags celebrating the asexual, gender fluid, pansexual, nonbinary, lesbian, and intersex communities. The group annually approves less than 30 of the requests it receives for creating new digital icons currently under consideration is a rainbow-colored infinity symbol that was suggested on April 21. To date, just the traditional six-colored rainbow pride flag and the transgender pride flag have been approved for use in texts and social media posts.Ī request that the bisexual flag be added was rejected on February 4 last year by the Emoji Subcommittee for the Unicode Consortium, which oversees which emoji are added each year. A new campaign aims to bring a plethora of Pride flag emoji to the keyboards of smartphones and other devices.