• Flag 1: The Freedom Flag. The original Rainbow Flag (also called "The Freedom Flag") was first used to symbolize gay pride and diversity by San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker in 1978. The colors of the flag have changed several times with the color "hot pink" only existing for 1 year, and light blue only existing for 2 years.
  
  Today, The Freedom Flag officially consists of 6 stripes and is used to celebrate gay and lesbian pride, as well as a celebration of diversity.
   
• Flag 2: The Transgender Flag. The flag represents the transgender community and consists of five horizontal stripes, two light blue, two pink, with a white stripe in the center.
  
  The light blue is the traditional color for baby boys, pink is for girls, and the white in the middle is for those who are transitioning, those who feel they have a neutral gender or no gender, and those who are intersexed.
  
  The pattern is such that no matter which way you fly it, it will always be correct. This symbolizes us trying to find correctness in our own lives.
   
• Flag 3. The Bisexual Flag. The flag represents the bisexual community.
  
  A pink stripe representing homosexual orientation is at the top of the flag, and a blue stripe representing heterosexual orientation is at the bottom of the flag. The stripes overlap in the central one-fifth of the flag to form a purple stripe representing the combination of both orientations.

Homosexuals suffered a great deal during the holocaust of World War II. Gay men and, to a lesser extent, lesbians, were two of several groups targeted by Nazis during the Holocaust.  In Nazi concentration camps, every prisoner had to wear a badge on their jacket, the color of which categorized them according "their kind".

• The Black Triangle. Individuals deemed "socially unacceptable" including: alcoholics, the habitually "work shy", vagrants, lesbians, prostitutes, women who used birth control and others had to wear the black triangle.

• The Pink Triangle. The pink triangle was one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, used by the Nazis to identify male prisoners in concentration camps who were sent there because of their homosexuality.

Estimates vary wildly as to the number of gay men killed in concentration camps during the Holocaust ranging from 15,000 to 600,000. The deaths of at least an estimated 15,000 gay men in concentration camps were officially documented.

Gay men suffered unusually cruel treatment in the concentration camps. They faced persecution not only from German soldiers but also from other prisoners, and many gay men were beaten to death. German soldiers also were known to use gay men for target practice, aiming their weapons at the pink triangles their human targets were forced to wear.

Nazi doctors often used gay men for scientific experiments in an attempt to locate a "gay gene" to "cure" any future Aryan children who were gay.

Lesbians were not treated as harshly as gay men. They were labeled "anti-social," but not sent to camps.