Why the Rainbow's?

In this post I will talk about rainbows as stated in the title, but I will go much deeper than just the science. Is a rainbow just a rainbow or is there something more than just the pretty colors? Many people believe the QLGBT community must know the meaning to why those colors are so special, or why did the rainbow become their flag? There are also many religions that tell us why rainbows even exist. Are there anymore symbols that the QLGBT community might be able to use if the QLGBT community changes their flag? I will end my post by explaining the history of the QLGBT flag.

Did anyone wonder why the QLGBT community decide to put a rainbow as their universal flag? If you think its because gay people can't choose just one color and they just love them all, you're wrong. QLGBT people choose the rainbow so that each color would represent a different thing. The QLGBT community wasn't the first group of people to chose colors to mean something, country's like Colombia and Italy have meanings behind why they chose those colors for their flags.

The colors might mean many different things
to different people but this it the most widely know version.

http://videogamedyke.deviantart.com/art/MEANING-OF-THE-GAY-FLAG-64761894

People are against the use of the rainbow as the QLGBT flag because of the innocent kids who draw rainbows. Even in the QLGBT community there are some people who believe that the flag should be changed. They believe the change could be for the better so that they can be more accepted because having their kids drawing their flag doesn't help them.

Scientifically, a rainbow is the reflection of the light when it hits water at different angles. Another commonly known way to describe a rainbow is a promise from God not to flood the Earth after the great flood. If God gave it to us then good things should come from it, than why do people believe a rainbow can only have the connection to the QLGBT community?

There are other signs many believe that can take the place of the rainbow like the pink triangle. The origin of the triangle was during the Holocaust. The triangle was used in many colors to identify the country the prisoners were from. Since the 1970's the pink triangle came to be known as the symbol to represent gay Jew's that died during the Holocaust.

The original flag was of 8 colors, but it then got smaller. Glibert Baker was the original artist who designed the flag in 1978. Baker was a good friend to Harvey Mike, who was widely known as "the most famous and significant openly LGBT official ever elected in the United States".  Each color, like I said above, was supposed to mean something, but when he wanted to mass produce the flag they didn't have pink nor turquoise, so the 6 colored flag took hold of the QLGBT community.

The original flag (1978).
http://www.tccidaho.org/did-you-know/

 In conclusion, a rainbow is good thing, no matter how you look at it. A rainbow means life and hope to many people around the world. No one has ownership of the rainbow, so make it your own motivation. "I like pushing boundaries" and that's what we should all do to broaden our views of the world and to make our lives unique.

http://www.tccidaho.org/did-you-know/