evidence: The current progress flag was designed by Graphic designer Daniel Quasar in 2018. The flag builds upon the iconic rainbow pride flag designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978 to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. This flag adds on a chevron with five new colors to symbolize progression. The intention of the flag was to show support for the LGBTQ+ community members that historically have been excluded and who have faced maltreatment and at times even persecution. The flag has gained popularity in recent years as many have switched out their traditional rainbow pride flags for the new and more inclusive progress flag. [...] The first progress flag was designed in 2017, Philadelphia City Hall in the United States. This flag added black and brown stripes to bring light to the discrimination of POC within the community. A year later Seattle added pink, light blue, and white to represent transgender individuals. Many found that adding the colors as stripes to the flag reduced the overall message of the original flag hence the colors being put into a chevron pattern in later designs. [...] Although many love to wave the progress flag this feeling is not mutual throughout the entire LGBTQ+ community. A comment section on Twitter regarding the intersex progress flag explains this controversy. Some individuals expressed that the original rainbow pride flag was inclusive enough and never excluded any marginalized members to begin with. These individuals don’t believe the addition of the chevron and other colors was necessary as they think the original flag already sent out these messages.