#queer artists

[mellotromatic]

you have the heart but where was your spine

[stargayart]

some mouthwashing doodles I did at work <3

[ghcstcd]

Sockeye salmon, if he was just a little buddy

[adamicoarts]

This post instantly gave me Griddlehark vibes, so I had to.

Bonus:

[gryphll]

LGBettas back again for pride, new and improved!! Happy Pride month everyone 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💞

[chiaralbart]

More LGBTQ flags as moths for you🌈🦋

[agelessphotography]

Josephine Baker, George Hoyningen-Huene, 1929

[archivegeo]

trackpad painting of this man that took [redacted] hours

[millenniumfae-artblog]

ETSY LINK

18 x 24 Linocut Block Art Print - Lan Caihe of the Eight Immortals

Celebrate nonbinary identities throughout history

[sennamaticart]

Sapphic Sphinxes for PRIDE month 🦁

[foldingfittedsheets]

I already had a rainbow DnD dragon made up for personal reasons and realized it makes for really cute flags, so I whipped up a few more!

You can find my pride collection on my Redbubble, Teepublic, and Threadless! Sales support a broke queer creator and add +2 to AC! Awesome Clothes

[mellotromatic]

why so nervous

[emjava-art]

Jim Henson and his creations 🐸

Available as a print 💖

[oncanvas]

The Jacket, Bernard Perlin, 1951

Casein tempera on board 28 ½ x 20 in. (72.4 x 50.8 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, USA

[luciesartblog]

Gilbert Baker (June 2, 1951 - March 31, 2017) was a gay American artist, designer and activist, best known as the primary creator of the rainbow flag. In 1972 Baker was living in Chicago as an openly gay man, he was taught to sew by a fellow activist, Mary Dunn, using these skills to create banners for gay-rights and anti-war protest marches. It was also during this time that he met and became friends with Harvey Milk, an influential gay leader, who challenged Baker to create a new symbol of pride for the gay community.

The first rainbow flags were produced by a team that included Baker, seamster James McNamara and artist Lynn Segerblom. Segerblom, who was then known as Faerie Argyle Rainbow, reports to have created the original dyeing process for the flags. Thirty volunteers hand-dyed and stitched the first two flags for the parade. These original flags flew at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978.

Though many variations have emerged in the decades since, the original design had eight stripes, with a specific meaning assigned to each of the colours: Hot pink for “sex”, red for “life”, orange for “healing”, yellow for “sunlight”, green for “nature”, turquoise for “magic” (though sometimes given as “art”?), indigo for “serenity” and violet for “spirit”.

I’m a little late for pride month, but I got all this done a lot quicker than I expected considering I only started working on it at the beginning of June (though I’ve been planning it on and off for a few years now😅). I did a lot of research and planning for each piece, and there was a lot I wanted to communicate with the project as a whole - it’s been a lot of work, and I challenged myself with a bunch of stuff I’m not familiar with, but I’m really happy with how everything turned out.

Happy pride, everyone, here’s to our community, to all the work that got us here, and to all the progress still to come! 🏳️‍🌈✨🏳️‍⚧️