Activist and executive director of Philly. The campaign pushing the redesign is called, More Color More Pride, and was unveiled in Philadelphia for the beginning of Pride Month, MRCTV reports. The Progress flag builds on the six-stripe rainbow of the Pride flag by adding a chevron of white, pink, light blue, brown and black - to symbolize transgender rights, people of color and those living with or lost to HIV/AIDS. The rainbow flag, long a symbol of gay pride, has been redesigned by activists to include black and brown stripes for to represent non-whites. There will be a flag-raising ceremony at the State Department on Friday with remarks from Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley and glifaa president Jeff Anderson to mark the moment, according to an agency release.Īnderson's organization, glifaa, represents lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender personnel at the State Department and other foreign affairs agencies. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced earlier this week that the agency would display the flag to close out Pride Month, describing it as 'a symbol that encompasses the diversity and intersectionality of LGBTQI persons and communities around the world.'
A year after Pride flags were banned from being displayed at U.S embassies, the State Department, for the first time, will raise the 'Progress' flag outside its building in Washington on Friday and throughout the weekend in celebration of Pride.
