#and the progress pride flag by Daniel Quasar

[owlisdoodles]

okay, but consider this?

We NEED to put sex and magic back on the pride flag right now

[hotvampireadjacent]

Normally I hate any kind of change but I really like the progress pride flag design. It highlights black and brown lgbt community memebers and trans people while keep much of Gilbert Baker’s original gay pride flag

I was curious about the history bc I only started seeing this flag recently.

According to this website I found “The Progress Pride flag was developed in 2018 by non-binary American artist and designer Daniel Quasar (who uses xe/xyr pronouns). Based on the iconic rainbow flag from 1978, the redesign celebrates the diversity of the LGBTQ community and calls for a more inclusive society”

Source: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-progress-pride-flag

Really cool

[sheriiam]

Since today marks the 53rd year since the first Pride parade took place, let's dive into the history of the "progress" of our Pride flag.

This new flag is called the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag, created by Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK in 2021. It is an update to the previous Progress Pride Flag created in 2018 by Daniel Quasar.

The original pride flag was created in the 1970s by gay activist Gilbert Baker, friend of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. The flag made its debut at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978. Baker used eight colors―

― hot pink for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit.

Why Was Pink Removed From the Pride Flag?

The original hot pink color was removed from the pride flag because the fabric was difficult to find.

The Progress Pride Flag was created with the inspiration of other pride flags—specifically, the Philadelphia Pride Flag from 2017 and the trans flag.

The Philadelphia Pride Flag had black and brown vertical stripes added. The trans flag, created in 1999, is pink, baby blue, and white. Both of these flags inspired the design of the new pride flag.

Black and Brown Represents People of Color

The Philadelphia Pride Flag was designed by the Philadelphia Office of LGBT Affairs and was done in partnership with advertising agency Tierney. It was introduced at a City Hall ceremony in June of 2017. The flag showed the traditional six rainbow colors in horizontal stripes, with a black and a brown stripe atop them.

The colors black and brown were added to the Progress Pride Flag to represent people of color (POC). This was an important addition because people of color have often been left out of the queer narrative despite being the driving force behind the movement.

With the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, culture at large began to shift in a much-needed way towards acknowledging the vital roles that people of color have had in our society. The pride movement background is one of many areas where POC, particularly Black people, did not receive the recognition they deserved historically. Adding colors to represent them on the flag is one way to change that.

Additionally, the black and brown stripes are meant to represent people living with HIV/AIDS, those who have died from it, and the stigma around the virus that is still present in our society now.

Pink, Baby Blue, and White Represent Trans People

Transwoman Monica Helms created the trans pride flag, which first flew in a pride parade in Phoenix, Arizona back in 2000. Monica Helms is a transgender activist, author, and U.S. Navy veteran.

Traditionally, the colors pink and baby blue have been used to represent whether a baby is a boy or a girl. Here, the colors denote those genders. The color white represents people who are transitioning, intersex, or identify outside of the gender binary.

The word "progress" in the new flag isn't only about adding the new colors to it. It's also because of the shape, which differs from the original design of horizontal stripes only. The Progress Pride Flag shows the white, pink, baby blue, black, and brown stripes in a triangle shape, with the old six-color rainbow stacked next to them.

This was done intentionally to convey the separation in meaning and shift focus to how important the issues represented on the left are.

The placement of the new colors in an arrow shape is meant to convey the progress still needed. Quasar spoke publicly about how work is still needed in terms of POC and trans rights. This arrow design is meant to highlight that.

Although the Pride flag continues to evolve, the most recent update includes a yellow triangle with a purple circle inside it to represent the intersex community. It now serves as the most up-to-date LGBTQIA+ flag.

[yourdailyqueer]

Daniel Quasar

Gender: Non binary (Xe/xem/they)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Artist, graphic designer

Note: Known for their design of the Progress Pride flag

[vanteaux]

Y'all were so right here you go

Pride flag color picked from that one image in hbomberguy's plagiarism video

[cheesyradfem]

It’s pretty disturbing (for me) that someone claiming the lipstick lesbian flag was created by an “acephobe” is enough to get it removed from public platforms (such as Google); but when you point out that Daniel Quasar created the “”Progress”” Pride Flag because he didn’t feel gay pride was an important enough issue (not to mention making it mere months after Gilbert Baker’s death, when he’d updated his own 1978 pride flag shortly before he passed), you’re the bigot, and everyone (from government buildings to zoos to major corporations) are posting it everywhere without considering how homophobic it is.

[foxlore24]

So I was on tiktok shop last night, and I found this gem

My boyfriend and I now call the progress pride flag, the Daniel Quasar flag

[booksinmythorax]

On Tyranny and Tumblr #4: Take responsibility for the face of the world

The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.

Some of this must be done offline. If you are financially able, now is a good time to stock up on stickers from Black Lives Matter, the Progress Initiative* and/or other organizations that make Pride flag stickers, Planned Parenthood, or independent artists walking their talk while making stickers whose messages you agree with. (Watch out for giant corporations and dropshippers.)

Hell, make your own stickers! Sell them if you want, or don't, but do put them up in public spaces where stickering is allowed (or isn't allowed but is happening anyway). Place your own symbols and cover hateful ones.

If you're a graffiti artist, do your thing. If you see a graffiti artist doing their thing and they're not being a fascist about it, no you don't!

Look, bumper sticker activism won't save the world. It won't. But taking down or taping over hate symbols in the real world and making symbols of progress, solidarity, and liberation more visible has an impact. As a queer person, I exhale a little bit - a little bit - when I see someone else wearing a Progress Pride pin or with a rainbow sticker on their car.

Snyder asserts that "Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much... You might one day be offered the opportunity to display symbols of loyalty. Make sure that such symbols include your fellow citizens rather than exclude them" (Snyder 33-35).

Snyder uses imperfect language here. Whether a person is a citizen or not, is documented or not, is like you or not, make sure the symbols you display include them rather than exclude them.

Don't display symbols you don't agree with to avoid trouble. And don't avoid displaying any symbols at all out of fear. Your silence may be louder than you think.

Some ways we can apply this in our online lives include:

-Educate yourself on hate symbols, and update your knowledge regularly. Dogwhistles change when hate groups realize we're on to them. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League are good resources for learning about active hate groups and their current symbols.

-Let your mutuals or people you follow know if they are posting hateful symbols. Approach them one-on-one as if they are making a mistake, because they might be! I just had a conversation with an acquaintance in real life who had no idea that the Punisher skull is being used as a symbol by real-life far-right paramilitary groups.

-If you see accounts using hate speech or symbols repeatedly and on purpose, report them. Use the ADL database above and/or articles from the SPLC or other trustworthy publications as evidence in your report, since not everyone knows about every current hate symbol.

-Keep posting and reblogging content you believe in. Don't shame people; "I bet no one will reblog this", "No one is talking about this AND YOU KNOW WHY", and "If you don't reblog this you're a ___" are just not helpful, constructive, or true. But make your online space into a place with symbols that reflect who your activism includes.

*The Progress Initiative is not a 501(c)3 nonprofit, but the shop of Daniel Quasar, the person who created the original Progress Pride flag. Quasar enthusiastically encourages the creation and use of variations on their flag design, including those that include the intersex flag symbol.

Other lessons from On Tyranny:

#1: Do not obey in advance

#2: Defend institutions

#3: Beware the one-party state

#5-7: Remember professional ethics, Be wary of paramilitaries, and Be reflective if you must be armed

[cobrastrikes421]

LGBTQ art

Bisexual fact:

Overall, 4% of U.S. adults say they identify as bisexual, according to an August 2023 survey by the Center. Younger adults are more likely than older Americans to describe themselves as bisexual. the term bisexual was used in Dutch for the first time in 1877, to refer to a hermaphrodite who had their sexual career as both a heterosexual woman and a heterosexual man. Later, the term bisexuality is used to represent both the double sexual-object choice and androgyny.

Aromantic fact:

Aromantic people can also form non-romantic relationships of all types, as well as being able to enjoy sexual relationships. They may also choose to have children, and studies indicate that aromantic individuals are no less likely to have children than alloromantic individuals. One of the earliest uses of the modern term "aromantic" dates back to 2005. The early online community around aromanticism formed on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN), an online community around asexuality, and social media platforms such as tumblr.

Progress fact:

a reinterpretation of multiple iterations of the pride flag. The original 'rainbow flag' was created by Gilbert Baker in 1978 to celebrate members of the gay and lesbian political movement. It comprised eight coloured stripes stacked on top of each other to evoke a rainbow, a symbol of hope. Daniel Quasar (xe/xyr pronouns) is the creator of the Progress Pride flag, a combination of the original Pride flag by Gilbert Baker, the Trans Pride flag by Monica Helms in 1999, the More Color, More Pride flag introduced by Amber Hikes in 2017, and a black stripe from the Victory Over AIDS flag, inspired by Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, to represent those lost during the AIDS crisis. This flag design “forces the viewer to confront

Aro/ace fact:

Aromantic asexual people are colloquially known as "aro-ace" or "aroace". Aromantic individuals are also able to experience platonic love and may have committed friendships, and some form intimate non-romantic partnerships called "queerplatonic relationships". the early 2000s as a way for individuals to explore and understand their experiences of limited or absent sexual and romantic attractions.

Agender fact:

agender" was actually on the Internet! It was born in the year 2000, on an Internet forum called UseNet. In a chat room discussion entitled alt. messianic, a user posted the following: “God is amorphous, agender, so image can't be a physical or gender or sexual thing.” Agender is a term used by individuals who do not identify with any specific gender or who experience a lack of gender altogether. Agender people have a sense that their gender identity is completely neutral, or does not exist at all. They may use words like "genderless" and "gender free" to describe themselves.

Trigender fact:

In Ancient Greece, Phrygia, and the Roman Republic and Empire, Cybele and Attis were worshiped by galli priests (documented from around 200 BCE to around 300 CE) who wore feminine clothes, referred to themselves as women, and often castrated themselves, and have therefore been seen as early transgender figures. The exact origin of the term "trigender" is unknown, but it has been mentioned as early as 1998. The prefix tri- means three, so "trigender" literally means "three gender".

Gay fact:

2400 BCE, are speculated to have been gay based on a representation of them embracing nose-to-nose in their shared tomb, though critics say that they were likely brothers. In 1978 Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, and the first openly gay or lesbian person to be elected to public office in California, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. "The green (Community) and teal (Joy) in the flag represent Nature. I thought this was important because love between men is often seen as “unnatural” in the eyes of society and in religion. Furthermore, gay men have historically used green flowers and plants (Carnations, hyacinths, etc.) to symbolize our love, reinforcing our connection with Nature. The white stripe is adopted from the Trans Pride flag because trans, nb, and GNC men are often erased or talked over and need explicit representation.

Pansexual fact:

the hybrid words pansexual and pansexualism were first attested in 1914 (spelled pan-sexualism), coined by opponents of Sigmund Freud to denote the idea "that the sex instinct plays the primary part in all human activity, mental and physical". created to differentiate between the bisexuality flag, which also has three horizontal bars. It was created on the internet sometime around 2010, and has gained popularity since then. The Pansexual symbol combines the male, female, and transgender symbols into one, new, P-shaped symbol representing pansexuality.

Demigirl fact:

The earliest demigirl flag was created on April 15th, 2014 by Tumblr user kyriefortune. The second demigirl flag was created on August 24th, 2015 by pride-flags based on Willow's demiguy flag. Another flag was posted on the same day by pride-flags also based on Willow's demiguy flag. A gender identity term for someone who was assigned female at birth but does not fully identify with being a woman, socially or mentally. transgender pride-flag, retaining the central white & pink stripes representing enbies & women, but with 4 added horizontal stripes of different shades of grey to signify a disconnect and/or uncertainty associated with this gender-identity.

Hope you all had a great pride month. Can’t wait to do more of them.

What pride art should I do next year?

[aftonfamilyvalues]

The progress pride flag really helps with one thing. It breaks the stereotype that gay people have a good sense of style.

the reasoning is the worst too.

daniel quasar, the creator of the progress flag, says he wants to "honor the legacy" of gilbert baker and his design all while covering up a quarter of it

he intentionally created a separation of transness and gayness, citing that theres a "difference in meaning" between the two. funnily enough, whenever gay people say the same thing or try to focus on lgb activism because, you know, theyre just so different from the t, they get called transphobic and are accused of wanting trans people to cease to exist

separation between the black and brown stripes from the rainbow also suggests that no one but the "cis white gays" are represented by it

centering the trans flag over the rainbow because its more "important" is saying that trans people are more important than gay people

the "forward movement" of the chevron on the left towards the right means that, eventually, the entire rainbow will covered up

[maydaytrippe]

United Progress Pride Flag © 2024 by Mayday Trippe is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. 

I’ve almost been feeling patriotic recently, but for a future version of our country I want to believe we can build, where everybody belongs. So I made a flag for that America, and the fight it’ll take to get us there.

The 15 stars are for the fifteen states currently rated highly for laws defending LGBTQ rights. But this flag is meant to be updated, to celebrate and mark progress made in the states, and to remind our allies and representatives of the work left to do—of the thirty-five states where being queer or trans in America still means having fewer rights and legal protections

This symbolism is a wish, a called shot, without pretending we’ve already made it.

Following the example Daniel Quasar set with his Progress Pride flag, I’m licensing the United Progress Pride flag under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

I’ve also added shirts, stickers, and even ACTUAL FLAGS(!) to my the Super Tree Etsy shop for any other Americans whose true homeland is in the super gay future.

2024. 35 stars to go.

[lizardsfromspace]

"Why do people think my anger about a flag design is problematic," says someone denouncing it with a literal Nazi meme & claiming it's "fishy" that they waited until after the artist died to...add a stripe for people of color? Yeah that was truly the first time anyone had ever altered Gilbert Baker's design before

(in the interests of making it clear a post isn't mine I am trapping all bad posts I screencap in The Fog Dimension)

This post also does this thing where they say the Philly Pride flag was "designed by a corporation" for a city and so you can never comment on capitalism appropriating queerness again after that. One problem:

that's not the Philly Pride Flag!

The original Progress Pride flag was designed by a independent non-binary designer named Daniel Quasar. It wasn't a corporate effort, they literally had to crowdfund the first ones. The Philly Pride flag is the one that's the normal pride flag with brown and black horizontal stripes on top. But they conflate the two so they can. I don't know. Say a corporation murdered Gilbert Baker to make it I guess

[shalom-iamcominghome]

hi, I've never heard of the progress pride flag, could you show what it is/tell a bit about it? thank🤍

Quick note that I'll be speaking a bit about the queer scene in the U.S., so this may not be applicable internationally

The progress pride flag, before I delve into this a bit further, is this:

This was created around 2018 as a reinterpretion/reimagining of the Philadelphia pride flag:

Essentially, these flags were both created with inclusion in mind. The black and brown stripes were made specifically to call to mind inclusion of queer PoC (though there are interpretations of the black stripe also representing the people we lost in the AIDs crisis). In the U.S., there has been a long-standing history of racism within the queer community - many PoC within the community don't feel safe or welcome within the broader queer community.

As time went on, there was also inspiration to explicitly call attention to the inclusion of trans people, as well, largely for the same reasons. With that in mind, Daniel Quasar created the progress pride flag. What's cool about it is the chevron/triangle represents progress moving forward.

And in 2021, the most recent progress iteration was made:

The first thing many people notice is how cluttered this flag looks. I'm not someone who uses this flag often, however, I think inclusion is often messy and often is explicit like this. You can have any opinions about these flags as you can - but I'd encourage everyone to remember the flags stemmed from real struggles that marginalized people within the community faced from the people who were supposed to be our own.

Using these pride flags does not inherently mean someone is actively being inclusive to every type of queer person. Using flags alone is not activism. However, I think these can be good calling cards to be aware of as a way to potentially signal, "hey, we're normal about queers who aren't made visible within the community!"

[thunder-pride]

Choose a palette and a character (or ask your followers to do it for you!) and create something!

Many thanks to Persea (@quasar-concept) for making the palettes and the background <3

Works can be completed at any time and interpreted as you see fit - we hope you enjoy creating with these palettes this month! If you’ve never considered yourself a artist before - special shout out to you people and we hope that you get inspired to give even one palette a go!!

Tag using #thunderpride and @thunder-pride so we can share your wonderful works!

Pride Flags are used to represent sexualities and gender identities for many queer people. They are a way of show solidarity both within and between queer identities, and also to proclaim who we are to everyone. Most flags also use colour symbolism to represent what the creator felt was important aspects of the community.

If you would like to explore more flags for #14, you can do so here (sexualities) and here (gender identities).

You can learn more about the flags that inspired each palette below the cut.

1 - The current Lesbian Pride Flag was created by Emily Gwen in 2018. A five-stripe variant is commonly used today.

2 - The current Gay Men Pride Flag was created by Triton in 2019. A five stripe variant is commonly used today.

3 - The Bisexual Pride Flag was created by Michael Page in 1998.

4 - The Transgender Pride Flag was created by Monica Helms in 1999

5 - The Asexual Pride Flag was created by standup, an active user on AVEN (Asexuality Visibility and Education Network) in 2010.

6 - The Non-binary Pride Flage was created by Kyle Rowan in 2014.

7 - The Genderfluid Pride Flag was created by JJ Poole in 2014

8 - The Genderqueer Pride Flag was created in Marilyn Roxie in 2011

9 - The original Pride Flag (now known as the Gilbert Baker Pride Flag) was created by Gilbert Baker in 1978. The six stripe variant (without the pink) is now well recognised as an umbrella pride flag for the queer community.

10 - The Pansexual Pride Flag was created by Jasper V in 2010

11 - The Polyamorous Pride Flag was recently updated by a community vote held in 2022 to a design known as the “tricolor polyamory pride flag” which was created by Red Howell, however the original design from 1995, by Jim Evans, is still circulated amongst many and still well recognised. You will likely see others if you go searching online.

12 - The Intersex Pride Flag was created by Morgan Carpenter in 2013

13 - The Aromantic Pride Flag was created by cameronwhimsy in 2014.

14 – The Progress Pride Flag was created by Daniel Quasar in 2018 and was inspired by the Philadelphia Pride Flag (2017). The current intersex inclusive version was adapted by Valentino Vecchietti in 2021.

Links to info sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

[lazykurocat]

Why I think the "progress" flag is actually regressive.

apparently it's time for me to get mad about the "progress" flag again…

I've always had major problems with the "progress" flag, it if anything is separating us further as a community whereas the regular Rainbow as it was is all encompassing.

As a brown person I just find the flag sickening... what does skin colour or illness have to do with my Queerness? NOTHING. I know some will try to say "well it's because we're all discriminated against!" but the reasons for discrimination are completely none related... and I see the flag as discriminating... having Black and Brown represent AIDS and HIV aswell as Skin colour, on a flag meant for queer people further make it out like it's the "Gay/Brown people virus" which... is fucked up. I am saying this as a brown disabled gay trans man... I do not like this damn flag and never will.

it doesn't help that the creator, Daniel Quasar, is a white person (at least as far as I know)... this is a form of what is known as "positive racism" Virtue signalling and white guilt. I am sick of it all and have faced it my entire life… do people not realise by being this way they dehumanise people like me? they treat me like I'm another species they can't properly comprehend because they're white and I'm not. I don't know who needs to hear this but you are not a bad person just because you are white!... you are also being racist to yourselves through your white guilt and it makes me sad… we're all just people on a tiny space rock. quit trying to appease us by being racist! just treat me like a person!

mmm Pride month Am I right fellas?

[historicalpride]

History of the Pride Flag

The rainbow flag or pride flag is a symbol of LGBT pride and LGBT social movements. The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBT community and the spectrum of human sexuality and gender. Using a rainbow flag as a symbol of LGBT pride began in San Francisco, California, but eventually became common at LGBT rights events worldwide.

LGBT people and allies currently use rainbow flags and many rainbow-themed items and color schemes as an outward symbol of their identity or support. There are derivations of the rainbow flag that are used to focus attention on specific causes or groups within the community (e.g. transgender people, fighting the AIDS epidemic, inclusion of LGBT people of color). In addition to the rainbow, many other flags and symbols are used to communicate specific identities within the LGBT community.

In June 2018, designer Daniel Quasar released a redesign incorporating elements from both the Philadelphia flag and trans pride flag to bring focus on inclusion and progress within the community.[76] The flag design spread quickly as the Progress Pride Flag on social media, prompting worldwide coverage in news outlets.[77][78][79] While retaining the common six-stripe rainbow design as a base, the "Progress" variation adds a chevron along the hoist that features black, brown, light blue, pink, and white stripes to bring those communities (marginalized people of color, trans people, and those living with HIV/AIDS and those who have been lost) to the forefront; "the arrow points to the right to show forward movement, while being along the left edge shows that progress still needs to be made."[80]