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![[Danish LGBT flag]](../images/d/dk}lgbt.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorović, 1 July 2021
Danish LGBT flag is derived from the national flag by repainting the field into rainbow colours, top cantons into red, orange and yellow and bottom cantons into green, blue and violet; each of the rainbow stripes occupies 1/7 of the flag width, as does the cross.
This design is actually quite old: it was created by Greg Gomes and presented in his collection of gay flags images at his archived website since at least January 2003, until the site was closed down sometime after June 2015. For many years, there were very few examples of its use as the Web graphics: the only one currently known dates from 2011. Neither it seems to have been used in real life at the time, nor was it offered for sale frequently. The flag seems to have appeared in real life only after all of the above had become history - in August 2019, at the Copenhagen Pride, where a few photos of real flags were taken .
The source photos all display the flag hoisted with red at the top, as designed by Greg Gomes. That might have been expected to be preferred, despite the possibility for the design to have "no right side up", because red is the colour of the national flag. Another revealed feature is a rather dark shade of yellow - not as dark as the FOTW colour Y+, but still visibly darker than the FOTW colour Y - another thing to have been expected, for it makes the viewer distinguish better between yellow and white areas on the flag.
Sources: this page, and this page
Tomislav Todorović, 1 July 2021
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