The first flag unveiled 42 years ago had eight stripes, with hot pink representing sex and turquoise for magic. The six stripes in the widely popularized rainbow flag of today each represent an idea that resonates with LGBTQ+ people: red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, blue for peace, and purple for spirit.īut Baker’s flag has changed numerous times throughout the years. The Progress Pride Flag and Philadelphia’s Pride banner made waves at the time, with critics claiming that Gilbert Baker’s 1978 design, which has since been included in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, didn’t need to be updated.
“We still have movement forward to make,” Quasar wrote at the time. Here’s a better version made by to deal with the problems with my proposal/suggestion:Īnd are some more gay man/MLM flags (including PNC and SAM gays) made by other people that I’ve been collecting (gallery is incomplete though, please send any missing flags/sources to me).In a statement posted to the campaign’s Kickstarter page, Quasar said the goal was to emphasize “what is important in our current community climate,” namely the inclusion of Black, Brown, and trans people long marginalized by the mainstream LGBTQ+ movement. I’m not quite sure what to do regarding damage control around the exclusionists that are using my flag, but I started by working with several gay men in a pride, and my personal server to come up with meanings for each stripe (based on flag) that explicitly include GNC, nonbinary, trans, ace/arospec, split-attraction, and pronoun nonconforming gay men (also made it prettier). I saw it around a few times but didn’t realize it took off like that and was being credited to a truscum, no less. They never followed up on it so I posted it on Deviantart for opinions but didn’t get much interaction there. Since the anon that asked me about a gay man flag suggested one that was too similar to the butch lesbian flag. Was never meant to be a finalized design (especially since I’m nonbinary and bi), it was simply a suggestion Low/non-dysphoric trans people, and anyone else who may get excluded.īasically, any identity (that’s notcentered around harming people or animals) is amazing and valid. Lesbians (or anyone, really), GNC trans people, people who use the SAM, Neurogenders and neurorientations) pronoun noncomforming gays and I am fully supportive of allĪspec identities, “MOGAI” genders (including xenogenders, kingenders, I never want any of my flags being used to exclude part of the LGBTQAI+/MOGAI community. I am beyond pissed off at this, especially since I don’t remember anyone telling me it was stolen. Transphobes to exclude trans and nonbinary gay men. Also, it seems like it’s been co-opted by truscum and
Wording it in a way that made people think it was made by them (andĪlso “official”).
Mod Hermy of the Pride-Flags Deviantart here: I just found out during my hiatus from this blog that there’s been a lot of discourse surrounding this flag that I helped make.ĪPPARENTLY some truscum/transmed took this flag and reuploaded it (that got 8.2k notes vs the 9 notes my original post has),