In 1979, indigo was removed because of visibility reasons when posted on Market Street in San Francisco, so the current flag has six stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet/purple. Later, pink was removed from the flag because of availability of fabric issues, so it became the seven colors of the rainbow.
Pink represented sex, red represented life, orange represented healing, yellow represented sunlight, green represented nature, blue represented art, indigo represented serenity, and violet represented spirit. The flag originally had the stripes of all the colors of the rainbow and one pink stripe from top to bottom, it was pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet/purple, and indigo. This was created by a San Francisco artist named Gilbert Baker in 1978. Gay Pride ( Six stripes of the rainbow but without indigo - Gay, Gay Men, Lesbians, Homosexuality, and sometimes the entire LGBT community.
