The colors represent the fur colors and nationalities of bears throughout the world and the flag was designed with inclusivity in mind. Then, in 2018, graphic designer Daniel Quasar has added a five-colored chevron to the flag, according to Dezeen. In 2017, a group called More Color More Pride added two extra stripes of black and brown to the flag to better represent people of color who are part of the community.
The winning design (a version created by Paul Witzkoske) is a field of simple horizontal stripes with a paw print in the upper left corner - a layout similar to the Leather flag. The Pride flag has had a few other upgrades in recent years. Four variations were sewing machine-constructed and Byrnes won approval to display the four 3-by-5-foot (0.9 m × 1.5 m) prototype flags at the Chesapeake Bay 'Bears of Summer' events in July 1995. To do this, he received help from another influential member of the bear cultural community. He thought it might be fitting to design a flag that would best represent the bear community and include it with the results of his research. Byrnes' undergraduate degree in psychology involved designing a senior project about the bear culture that has exploded since the early 1980s, of which he had first-hand experience. I’ll use the gay pride flag, the rainbow one that you’re probably familiar with. Typically, the colors represent something. Craig Byrnes created the bear flag in 1995. Answer (1 of 9): The flags each have different meanings.
