<p>The late artist Gilbert Baker is credited with creating the first pride flag, which he designed in 1978 for Gay Pride Day in San Francisco, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/style/article/pride-rainbow-flag-design-history/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:per CNN" class="link ">per CNN</a>. </p><p>Baker's iteration of the flag gives a unique meaning to each color, "hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for magic, blue for harmony and violet for spirit," he explained. </p><p>"We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that,” Baker <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/30/us/rainbow-flagmaker-gilbert-baker/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:told CNN in 2015" class="link ">told CNN in 2015</a>. “We’re an ancient, wonderful tribe of people. We picked something from nature. We picked something beautiful."</p>