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Mexican sexual orientation flags

These are the Mexicanised variations of Bisexual, Rainbow, Leather and Bear Flags. All designed by Francisco J. Lagunes & Miguel Angel Corona in 2001. Were used in public in the Mexico City Pride Parade 2002.
Francisco Javier Lagunes Gaitán, 10 September 2003.

Bisexual
Rainbow
Leather
Bear
Another design of a gay flag

Bisexual

[ [Bisexual Mexican sexual orientation flag] ](../images/m/mx%5Fbisex.gif)
image by Francisco J. Lagunes G. and Miguel Ángel Corona, 10 September, 2003.
Regiffed by: Rob Raeside, 10 September, 2003.

Rainbow (Arco iris)

[ [Rainbow (Arcoiris) Mexican sexual orientation flag] ](../images/m/mx%5Farco.gif)
image by Francisco J. Lagunes G. and Miguel Ángel Corona, 10 September, 2003.
Regiffed by: Rob Raeside, 10 September, 2003.

Leather (Cuero)

[ [Leather (Cuero) Mexican sexual orientation flag] ](../images/m/mx%5Fleath.gif)
image by Francisco J. Lagunes G. and Miguel Ángel Corona, 10 September, 2003.
Regiffed by: Rob Raeside, 10 September, 2003.

Bear (Oso)

[ [Bear (Oso) Mexican sexual orientation flag] ](../images/m/mx%5Foso.gif)
image by Francisco J. Lagunes G. and Miguel Ángel Corona, 10 September, 2003.
Regiffed by: Rob Raeside, 10 September, 2003.

Another design of a gay flag

[ [Mexican gay flag] ](../images/m/mx%5Fgay.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovi, 14 October 2014.

A design of Mexican gay rainbow flag is presented here. Another gay rainbow flag, derived from the national flag by replacing green and red fields by six rainbow colors, has first appeared at theGayJourney.COMwhere it is marked as having been designed by the site’s author, Greg Gomes. The images of this flag have been appearing at the Web for years as illustrations of LGBT-related articles, but the real flag was eventually manufactured and offered for sale ateBay. There, white field seems to be a bit wider than the rainbow patterns, while it was visibly narrower in the original image. Also, the flag looks less oblong than the declared ratio of 3:5, which was used in the attached image, in which the white field was also made as wide as the rainbow patterns, to model it more after the national flag, but also to avoid the contradictions about its width. Image above of described flag; derived from the image of Mexican national flag from Wikipedia
Tomislav Todorovic, 14 October 2017.

Mexican gay flag proposed by Greg Gomes and presented atGayJourney.COM. Two photos of this flag, taken in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco, California on 2015-07-30, can be found here:Wikipedia [01] andWikipedia [02]. The flag shown in the first photo has the white field approximately as wide as the rainbow patterns and the ratio of about 2:3, while the one in the second photo has the white field visibly wider than the other two and the ratio might be the same or a bit more oblong.
Tomislav Todorovic, 9 August 2016.

Although used by Mexican diaspora in the United States, the flag also has its usage in Mexico as well, but a bit rarer, most likely due to the fact modifying of the national flag in the United States is better tolerated than in Mexico, where the Mexican flag is thought of more as a symbol that cannot be modified; especially since the Law on the National Symbols does not even allow for the modification of its emblem and calls for the requirement of prior authorization from the Government to even inscribe text on its flag. For some examples of this flag, see its use in Guadalajara at [1]. By a different group at the same pride event, at [2]; compare to the United States, held by Grupo Firme: [3] and Thaliá: [4] in the United States, both artists receiving negative reactions as many believed it to be an illegal modification of the National Flag.
Tomislav Todorović, 4 May 2021

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