Melbourne, August 2, 2018 -  One of the most recognized flags in the world is the Pride Flag. Created in 1978, this flag was developed to symbolize the gay community and their fight for equality. Activist and artist, Gilbert Baker, is the individual credited to the creation of this globally known flag. Baker approached a local company to mass produce the flag and had to eliminate one color because it wasn’t commercially available to purchase.

That same year, Harvey Milk – San Francisco’s first openly gay supervisor was assassinated. The LGBTI community wanted to come together to display their strength and solidarity after this tragic assassination – which led to the San Francisco Pride Committee using the rainbow flag designed by Baker. To divide the colors evenly during a parade route, they needed to eliminate another color from the flag.  This left the flag with 6 stripes – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. This flag is the flag that is still used around the world today, almost 40 years later.

Rainbow Flag Australia has created a digital and hardcopy magazine dedicated to gay pride available for many different Australian cities including:

* Sydney

* Perth

* Melbourne

* Brisbane

* Adelaide

* Canberra

* Darwin

They offer the LGBTI community with hundreds of resources of local businesses that are gay friendly. Some such business includes jewelry retailers, wineries, photographers, hotels, restaurants and much more! They work with a network of other gay friendly websites which offer the LGBTI community with tools and places to go where they can enjoy free from any discrimination along with celebrate gay weddings.

Whether a person in the LGBTI community wants to travel, get married, or just go out for date night – Rainbow Flag and their community have an abundance of resources for great, local places in any Australian city!