South Africa officially recognizes gay pride flag

South Africa has recognized it's own version of the rainbow gay pride flag as an officially registered national symbol South Africa has become the first country in the world to recognize the rainbow flag as a national symbol. Despite ongoing discrimination, South Africa's post-apartheid constitution was the first in the world to outlaw discrimination against sexual orientation and, in 2006, it became the first African nation to legalize same-sex marriage. South Africa's Department of Arts and Culture, through its Bureau of Heraldry, announced the registry of the flag in the official Government Gazette this week following an application by the South African version of the rainbow flag's designer, Eugene Brockman. 'The Gay Flag of SA is now officially recognized and protected by the Department of Arts and Culture and the government of South Africa," said Mava Mothiba, a spokesperson for the department. The South African rainbow flag takes the traditional rainbow LGBT pride flag designed by Gilbert Baker in San Francisco in 1978 but adds the diagonal and horizontal white and black bars of the South African flag to the design.

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