Now, I understand that part of the reason for that is probably stuff like the cost of fabric, since, y'know, it's a flag and materials cost money. I'm grateful to what it stands for, and I do love homophobes crying about 'gays stealing the rainbow' or being triggered by it, but. some of the brightest and most obnoxious shades just thrown together. I often find myself envying other flags that are nicer, like the trans flag and the pan flag. Just a basic grasp of color coordination.
No social commentary here, no internalized homophobia. (On that note, I think the queer chevron flag is underwhelming.) I'm not some "not like other gays who can't shut up about being gay like ugh why can't they just act in a way that makes it easy for straight people to forget they're gay, haha am I right straight besties?" pick me type that's trying to throw my queer siblings under the bus to look 'respectable'. This is completely unrelated to who the flag is for. Suggestions to post to another subreddit (please use the report and message the moderator options in these cases)Įxcessive trolling will result in a ban, this also includes those who consistently post in a negative fashion. Please REPORT things to have them reviewed for removal as soon as possible.Īccusations that a confession is fake (Having no way to verify authenticity or accuracy of posts, there is really no point in or reporting posts as "fake")Īccusations that a post is not a good enough confession Trolling and accusing others of trolling will not be tolerated
We aim to be slightly looser moderated, you may see things that offend here, however outright hate speech and anything illegal will be removed. You may also be interested in the far more populated sister sub-reddit: /r/confession - especially if you're specifically after nasty confessions. The auto-moderator is very aggressive and your text-only post may not appear until moderators can manually approve it (typically 24 hours). Designed for one parade in 1978, it's now one of the most recognized symbols in the world.Share anything you need to get it off your chest. The LGBT pride version of the flag designed by Gilbert Baker has become the most famous of the rainbow flags. And in Peru and Bolivia, the rainbow "Flag of Cusco" is a symbol of the indigenous Inca people. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast based in Birobidzhan, a sort of satellite government of Russia located on the Chinese border in Birobidzhan, uses a rainbow flag as its own symbol. In Italy, it's used as a symbol of peace, often with the word "PACE" written in white across the flag's stripes. In 2001, one version added a black stripe for AIDs awareness.Īside from LGBT pride, rainbow flags have other historic and political meanings that persist today. One version unfurled in Philadelphia this year added black and brown, for racial inclusivity. The flag has been modified in different places at different times. The White House illuminated in rainbow colors after 2015's Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage. Judy Garland, the star of "The Wizard of Oz," has a large following as a gay symbol, and is famous for singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the movie. The rainbow also has some pop culture significance for the LGBT community. The rainbow is so perfect because it really fits our diversity in terms of race, gender, ages, all of those things." We needed something beautiful, something from us. It came from such a horrible place of murder and holocaust and Hitler. "It was necessary to have the Rainbow Flag because up until that we had the pink triangle from the Nazis - it was the symbol that they would use. The rainbow flag was a way of taking these various colors and turning them into a coherent symbol, reclaimed by the LGBT community. During the Holocaust, Nazis forced gay men to wear pink triangles as a symbol of sexual deviance. Oscar Wilde wore a green carnation, and yellow served the same purpose in Australia, and purple provided that function in some communities in the United States. I realized I would have to make some compromises in order for this to really function as a symbol."Ĭloseted gay people have also historically used bright colors to signal their homosexuality to each other, as Forrest Wickman wrote in Slate. "Even to do four-color printing for photographs like this was complicated. " One of the reasons I had to adapt the eight-color version to the six-color version of the flag - the one we use today - is because in 1978 eight colors was expensive," Baker told the Museum of Modern Art. The longest rainbow pride flag ever, in Key West in 2003.Īndy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau/Getty Images