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The rainbow scarf, LGBT scarf or LGBT bandana is a means of non-verbal communication used in the social sphere to make visible and signal the belonging of the bearer of Gender and sexual diversity.

It is also a symbol of the fight for LGBT rights, such as the decriminalization of homosexuality, the recognition of Same-sex marriage, allow Same-sex adoption, recognition of all forms of family, regulations against discrimination and gender violence, against bullying and non-discrimination to protect LGBT children and students, the prohibition of reparative or conversion therapies, Immigration law for LGBT persons, legislation against Hate crime and hate speech, equality in the age of sexual consent, access to assisted reproductive techniques, recognition of the self-determination of the Gender to transgender people (including access to Sex reassignment surgery) and hormone replacement therapy), the legal recognition and adaptation in official documents of the gender reassignment, allowing LGBT people to serve openly in the armed forces. and allow donate blood. It was created around mid-2010 in United States and popularized in Latin America since 2011. It is inspired by the handkerchief code created by Americans in the early years 1970, as part of LGBT slang.

Origins
It is inspired by the work of Gilbert Baker who designed the rainbow flag in 1978 for the celebration of homosexual freedom in San Francisco. The flag does not show an actual rainbow. The author was inspired by various sources such as the hippie movement and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Colors are displayed in horizontal lines with red at the top and purple at the bottom. It represents the diversity of both female and male homosexuality, respectively.

The scarf is a miniature symbolism of said flag, with these colors in redundancy throughout the scarf, timidly appearing in the pride marches, it was gaining notoriety, more from the idea of ​​making the various sexual and gender orientations, that is how in 2010 its use was extended beyond these marches, being used as social symbolism for the visibility of the LGBT community and the fight for their rights.

The multi-colored bandana has a few variations, a bandana representing bisexuality with a magenta band above, a blue band below, and a narrower dark lavender band in the center, and a bandanna representing transgender consisting of five horizontal bands: two light blue, two pink and one white in the center.

Protest symbol
Since 2017, the symbol has been used for various demonstrations, both by those who fought directly for LGBT rights and by those social protests that involved Gender and sexual diversity in some way.

In Chile in 2018, it was used in its transgender variant, indicating that "Men also abort" (referring to the fact that the right to abortion would also include Transgender men with the capacity to gestate ). In May 2022, the bandana was worn in conjunction with the Green scarf in United States during the marches in defense of right to abortion, threatened by a possible annulment of the ruling Roe vs. Wade, vindicating the right to abortion for transgender people.

During the 2019–2022 Chilean protests, protesters were also observed using said symbol, in particular invoking causes related to the origin of the social outbreak, such as the lack of constitutional recognition of all forms of family, the difficulty in accessing positions of political power and hate crimes present in Chile.