--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: This is The History of the Rainbow Flag image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f105a6ed23e1926/6998cde81f67092dcff57335/poster_2a2f4b.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jun 25, 2015 # This is The History of the Rainbow Flag by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/pride-a-time-summit/7370148/this-is-the-history-of-the-rainbow-flag/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/pride-a-time-summit/7370148/this-is-the-history-of-the-rainbow-flag/"},"headline":"This is The History of the Rainbow Flag","datePublished":"2015-06-25T02:02:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:08:23.887Z","description":"How the rainbow flag became an icon of LGBT rights","url":"https://time.com/collections/pride-a-time-summit/7370148/this-is-the-history-of-the-rainbow-flag/","keywords":["society","U.S.","Art","Archaeology","Include"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f105a6ed23e1926/6998cde81f67092dcff57335/poster_2a2f4b.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f105a6ed23e1926/6998cde81f67092dcff57335/poster_2a2f4b.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/pride-a-time-summit/7370148/this-is-the-history-of-the-rainbow-flag/","name":"This is The History of the Rainbow Flag"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This is The History of the Rainbow Flag","description":"How the rainbow flag became an icon of LGBT rights","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/bnTiT5cr/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-24T22:02:03.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bnTiT5cr.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/pride-a-time-summit/7370148/this-is-the-history-of-the-rainbow-flag/","duration":"PT1M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/pride-a-time-summit/7370148/this-is-the-history-of-the-rainbow-flag/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```