Rainbow Pride Stick Flag 12" × 18"

If you're marching, cheering from the curb or decorating a float, this 12 × 18 inch rainbow flag on a wooden stick is the size that gets noticed without wearing out your arm. Flags Importer mounts it on a 24 inch dowel with a gold-tone spear tip, and the flag is light enough to hold up for an entire parade.

The rainbow flag and its six stripes

Artist Gilbert Baker created the design as a symbol for the gay community in San Francisco, and it has since become the broad emblem of LGBTQ+ pride worldwide. The original had more colours; the familiar version settled on six stripes, red at the top down to violet at the bottom. Baker gave each stripe a meaning, from life (red) and sunlight (yellow) to nature (green), serenity (blue) and spirit (violet).

Why 12 × 18 inches works on parade day

A desk-sized flag disappears in a crowd, and a 3 × 5 ft flag needs a proper pole and two hands. This size sits between them: visible from across the street, easy to wave, and small enough to slide into a tote when you stop for lunch. The wooden dowel is sturdier than the plastic sticks on smaller flags, so it can also be pushed into a planter, a window box or a flag holder on a porch post.

Handling it safely in crowds

The tip is plastic, but it's shaped like a spear. In packed spaces, carry the flag upright and keep the point above head height or angled away from faces, especially around children.

Specifications

• Brand: Flags Importer
• Flag size: 12 × 18 in
• Material: 100-denier polyester
• Edges: sewn all the way round
• Stick: wooden dowel, 24 in long, 1/4 in thick
• Tip: gold-tone plastic spear
• Use: indoor or outdoor

For a desk, there's a 4 × 6 inch rainbow stick flag; for a pole, the 3 × 5 ft rainbow flag. More designs are in our LGBTQ+ Pride collection.