Image Source: Getty / Sergei Supinsky [1]
Emoji are about to get even more inclusive, and it's about time. After a previous push for more working women emoji [2], a new proposal hopes to bring a rainbow flag emoji [3] before the next version is out.

The proposal, submitted by Mark Davis [4], the cofounder and president of the Unicode Consortium, outlines how the rainbow emoji can possibly be in our phones before 2016 ends. Usually, new emoji proposals [5] go through a large approval process — with current ones slated to arrive in 2017. Essentially, Davis hopes people can just use a modifier code, similar to the ones that helped create diverse emoji skin tones [6]. A look at the code is below.

Image Source: Unicode.org [7]

The emblem holds an important significance [8] to the LGBTQ community, especially in light of the mass shooting in Orlando [9].

It's unclear if and when the Unicode Consortium will approve this emoji. Either way, it's another great step to make emoji [10] in general more inclusive and accurately representative of how people identify.