The rainbow flag, which originally had eight colors, was born in 1978, and the LGBT scene became known as the 'rainbow community.' Harvey Milk, a gay San Francisco politician, asked activist Gilbert Baker to design a flag for the LGBT movement.
In 1970, thousands of individuals, spurred on by organisers Brenda Howard, Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy and Linda Rhodes, walked 50 blocks in support of gay rights and started a tradition of Pride parades around the world in solidarity for LGBT issues. It was organized a year after the Stonewall riots, in which a violent uprising took place after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn gay bar in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The first Pride march was held in New York City on June 28, 1970. I kid you not - this just happened after a ferocious thunderstorm.
