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LGBT pride symbol
Gay flag of South Africa
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Use
| Represent the South African LGBT community
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Proportion
| 2:3
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Adopted
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- 2010 (public launch)
- 2012 (heraldic registration)
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Design
| A field divided horizontally into six equal bands of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, surmounted horizontally from the hoist of a white pall in umbra the edge to the hoist in black
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Designed by
| Eugene Brockman
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The
gay flag of South Africa
is a
pride flag
that aims to reflect the freedom and diversity of
South Africa
and build pride in being an
LGBTQ
South African.
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It was registered as the flag of the LGBTQ Association of South Africa in 2012 and is not an official
symbol of South Africa
.
Design
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Designed by Eugene Brockman,
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the flag is a hybrid of the
South African national flag
, which was launched in 1994 after the end of the
apartheid
era, and the
LGBT rainbow flag
.
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Brockman said "I truly believe we (the
LGBT community
) put the dazzle into our
rainbow nation
and this flag is a symbol of just that".
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The stated purposes of the flag include celebrating legal
same-sex marriage in South Africa
and addressing issues such as
discrimination
,
homophobia
and
corrective rape
.
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History
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The flag was launched on 18 December 2010 at the Mother City Queer Project costume party which is held annually and took place that year at the new
Cape Town Stadium
.
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On 20 July 2012, the flag was registered at South Africa's
Bureau of Heraldry
as a
heraldic flag
representing the LGBT Association of South Africa.
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It is not an official national symbol, and not the only South African version of the LGBT rainbow flag.
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Gallery
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