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The colors include dark orange for "gender non-conformity", orange for "independence", light orange for "community", white for "unique relationships to womanhood", pink for "serenity and peace", dusty pink for "love and sex", and dark rose for "femininity". The "orange-pink" lesbian flag, modeled after the seven-band pink flag, was introduced on Tumblr by blogger Emily Gwen in 2018. The pink flag attracted more use as a general lesbian pride flag. The "pink" lesbian flag was derived from the lipstick lesbian flag but with the kiss mark removed. The lipstick lesbian flag represents "homosexual women who have a more feminine gender expression", but has not been widely adopted. The design contains a red kiss in the left corner, superimposed on seven stripes consisting of six shades of red and pink colors and a white bar in the center. The lipstick lesbian flag was introduced in 2010 in the weblog This Lesbian Life. The color violet became associated with lesbians via the poetry of Sappho.
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Some lesbians reclaimed this symbol as gay men reclaimed the pink triangle (many lesbians also reclaimed the pink triangle although lesbians were not included in Paragraph 175 of the German criminal code). Women considered asocial by Nazi Germany for not conforming to the Nazi ideal of a woman, which included homosexual females, were condemned to concentration camps and wore an inverted black triangle badge to identify them. In the 1970s it was adopted as a symbol of empowerment by the lesbian feminist community. Among its functions, the labrys was associated as a weapon used by the Amazons of mythology. The design involves a labrys, a type of double-headed axe, superimposed on the inverted black triangle, set against a violet background. He’s our resident craft beer aficionado, wannabe Michelin star chef, photographer of yummy foods, maker of tiny things, Dublin tour guide and a proprietor of one of the swankiest single speed bikes around town.The labrys lesbian flag was created in 1999 by graphic designer Sean Campbell, and published in June 2000 in the Palm Springs edition of the Gay and Lesbian Times Pride issue. Glenn has been waving the flag for Neworld for 5 years now.
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So when you’re waving the flag on the march this year, give it an extra wave for him, remembered as a progressive thinker who helped define the modern LGBT movement. Unfortunately Gilbert Baker passed away last year at the age of 65. Unfortunately the colours representing sex and magic got cut! However the flag has grown to represent the community as a whole. Baker referred to this version of the flag as the “commercial version”, because it came about due to practical considerations of mass production. The most common version, the one everyone will be flying this weekend consists of six stripes, with the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The design has undergone several revisions to remove two colors for expediency and later re-add those colors when they became more widely available. Because the use of dye in public washing machines wasn’t allowed, they waited until late at night to rinse the dye from their clothes, running a cycle with bleach in the washing machines after leaving. In the dead of night in ’78, thirty volunteers helped Baker hand-dye and stitch the first original flag in the top-floor attic gallery of the Gay Community Center in San Francisco. Originally the flag had 8 colours! Representing sex, life, healing, sunlight, nature, magic/art, serenity, and spirit. The colors on the Rainbow Flag reflect the diversity of the LGBT community. He refused to trademark it, seeing it as a symbol for the LGBT community, part of the reason it has spread like wildfire throughout the world. Who? …Gilbert Baker was an American artist, gay rights activist, and the designer of the rainbow flag, living in the capital of the LGBT world, San Francisco.īaker first created the Rainbow Flag with an LGBT collective in 1978. Seeing as my last blog was all about Vexillology and with the weekend that’s in it, I thought I’d let you all know about Gilbert Baker!