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I love organ emojis. We need more. 🫁🧠🫀 why don’t we have intestines or gallbladder

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link

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star mage

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new wayner novelai stream layout kicks ass and venm'o is a completely original guy. its always good to draw a wizard

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wizard losing a bid

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Rainbow Flag Timeline

Pre-Flag

Pink Triangle

[December 19, 1938, Corbis/Getty Images]

The upside-down pink triangle was used to mark queer "men" (including mlm, gnc men, male sex workers, and trans women) during the Holocaust. The symbol was reclaimed by many, and is still occasionally used today. However, it was not accepted as a general sign for the community, both because of the painful history connected to it, and because it did not include a large chunk of the community.

Lambda

[Gay Activists Alliance parade, June 1970, NYPL]

Although this was not technically a flag, the lambda (triangle-shaped Greek letter on the banner) was quite often used to represent the GAA, gay activists' alliance, and thus became a sort of gay symbol, although this wasn't often used because of the complicated printing process and because of people's personal politics not aligning with the GAA.

Original Flag, 1978

The original rainbow flag was created to represent the community on Gay Freedom Day, what we now consider Pride (June 25, 1978), by the Decorating Committee of The Pride Foundation.

[Gay Freedom Day Committee, June 25, 1978, photograph by Elaine Gay Jarvis, Elaine Gay Jarvis Papers (2018-90), GLBT Historical Society]

This committee was led by Gilbert Baker and Lynn Segerblom (known then as the Fairy Argyle Rainbow), and indeed in recent years the story has been told that they were the original creators, however, Lee Mentley, who was an executive committee member and one of the many volunteers, notes that "Gilbert was there and yes he helped but he was no Betsy Ross."

Gilbert Baker did, however, dedicate a good portion of his life to popularizing his flag, and thus it is understandable how he became an idol.

The stripes represent, from top to bottom, sex, life, healing, sunlight, nature, magic and art, serenity, and spirit.

[Lynn Segerblom with the flag, June 1978, James MacNamara]

[June 25, 1978, Crawford Barton]

A second version, reversed, and based off of the American flag, was also flown.

[June 24, 1978, James McNamara]

Seven Stripes, 1978

After the murder of Harvey Milk, the openly gay governor of San Francisco, demands for the flag that he had worked on skyrocketed. However, the hot pink proved too difficult to handle, and thus this flag was born. [x]

Six Stripes, 1979

In 1979, there was an idea to split the flag in half at a parade, and so the turquoise stripe was cut. This version of the flag is most popular today. [x]

Victory Over AIDS, 1980

In the 1980s, HIV/AIDS was rampaging the country, taking the lives of thousands of people, especially hurting queer men.

This flag was created to commemorate the fallen, and Sergeant Matlovich, who was himself dying of AIDS, brought forth the idea that should a cure ever be found, the black stripes should be removed and burned. [x]

Nine Stripe Flag, 2017

In March 2017, Baker redesigned the flag with "another color to represent diversity in the age of Trump," adding a lilac stripe to the top of the original colour scheme. He passed away at the end of that month at the age of 65.

Philadelphia Flag, 2017

In June 2017, after an outcry over racism within the LGBTQ+ community, Philadelphia's Office of LGBT Affairs, in partnership with designing company Tierney, created the following flag to highlight QPOC voices. [x, x, x]

São Paulo, 2018

During a parade in São Paulo called "Love Fest", one of the cofounders of the parade used the following flag.

[February 12, 2018, Love Fest, Ana Carolina Moreno]

Progress Flag, 2018

Non-binary graphic designer Daniel Quesar (xe/xem/they/them) started a campaign to create a more inclusive pride flag that highlighted QPOC as well as trans people in June 2018.

The traditional stripes take up most of the flag, as to not distract from the history, while the white, pink, blue, brown, and black stripes are in the shape of a triangle, to represent moving forward. [x]

Modern Progress Flag, 2021

In 2021, Intersex activist Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK added the yellow and purple intersex flag to the chevron, resulting in the following flag. [x]

Conclusion

This flag will be ever-evolving as our definitions of queerness evolve and as we highlight more and more marginalized parties of our community. There will always be more variations, and that is not a bad thing.

Posted: September 10, 2022

Updated: August 23, 2023

Image descriptions updated

Pink triangle added to the top of the post

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The original pride flag meanings. Attempted with watercolor.

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hi, looking for the original comic that used to go around years where every color of the queer flag has a drawing with the color and meaning of that color. Epic piece , i cant find it would love if you could help me find it, i want to use it as a reference in a community group im orgenizing

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hi, looking for the original comic that used to go around years where every color of the queer /gay flag has a drawing with the color and meaning of that color. Epic piece , i cant find it would love if you could help me find it, i want to use it as a reference in a community group im orgenizing

sex and magic trans pride flag

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Pride art every day for Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Day 7 - A body to love

IG / Twitter / Art store (Donating half of everything in June to the Marsha P Johnson Institute!)

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Here it is! FLORESCENCE, my final piece for my foundation art course.. a whole lot of trans love poured into one celebration of trans identity. It’s not everything I wished it had been, but it’s still what it is

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Link to entire thread which is filled with sources and text resources:

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No male WWI pinups exist yet so my gay ass decided to change that at 1 AM and I ended up looking like a propaganda poster with homoerotic undertones so

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I’ve been feeling fairly low and isolated recently. Around the time that these feelings began intensifying, one of my old posts of two queer Jewish couples began picking up notes again. My first reaction was bemused surprise–it’s several months old, and I assumed it had run its course by this point. But after seeing how much people were connecting with it and finding meaning in it, whether that be leaving a message in the tags or taking the time to write an image ID for it, I felt a little less alone. I love drawing, and I would obviously do it even if there was no one to look at it, but to know that I created something that makes people happy is incredibly special. Thank you all for giving me that, and happy pride.

Edit: please stop tagging this “q slur.” Tagging it “queer mention” or something like that is fine, but especially in a post like this, it’s really hurtful to see queer being referred to as a slur

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My cat has to wear a cone this week and it made me think of an angel whose halo is a cone.