That pride flag is an eyesore. The colours don’t go together already (natural colours, pastels, AND earthly colours) but moving the arrow to the middle makes it look even worse.
Yeah, I get they’re trying to be even more inclusive, but isn’t a rainbow used because it includes every color in the visible spectrum? Everyone, no matter their orientation or anything else, is included. Obviously the rainbow is segmented because it looks nicer, but it’s not like every segment is supposed to represent a group, right? We don’t need to include brown/black/whatever to include people of those skin tones, right?
It’s an issue of when the flag was created and what it stood for then. The rainbow flag was specifically created to represent the LGB community (back when trans wasn’t considered so much a separate thing from being gay). Indigenous people weren’t a group originally considered to be included in the flag because it was specifically about sexual orientation, and that’s why the inclusion of the trans colors made sense too, since our current understanding has shifted to how being transgender is about gender presentation and not sexual orientation. So both of those were added to flag not only as a show of support to include those communities, but as a statement about how all minorities are united in the issues they face.
Kinda like how the old American flag with the 13 stars for the 13 original colonies would still be inclusive of the entire 50 states today since they’re all part of the US, but it doesn’t get used because they kept changing it to include new states as they were added to represent the entirety of the US.
I get it, but also I think it may not be so great an idea. I like the rainbow pride flag including everyone. If you start adding extra things, then that’s also implying anything not there isn’t included, which I disagree with.
Personally, I’m a straight white man, but I also identify with the pride flag because I want to include and accept all people. For some reason many straight people think it excludes them, but it doesn’t really. Everyone should have pride in who they are, it’s just certain people weren’t socially allowed to for a long time.
I guess if these things make people feel like they’re included more then it’s alright, but I just think it’s better to say the pride flag is all-inclusive. (This is doubly true because eventually it will have to become a mess of a design.)
If we didn’t need a brown stripe to represent people of colour, then there wouldn’t be any racism in the queer community. The fact that some queer people are racist is why the rest of us decided to fly a flag with a more explicit message.
Also the black stripe is for victims of the AIDS crisis
You think that’s bad, wait till you see the new design. Looks like a color explosion, except it’s all the same colors.
I still get the classic flag 🏳️🌈 The whole point was that the colors aren’t skin color… They’re your goddamn soul. Being gay is all about being skittles on the inside, and those who attempt to divide us keep scribbling dumb ass skin colors on a perfectly balanced design.
I’m brown, I’m bisexual, I don’t feel any “more represented” by this flag. All I feel is someone didn’t go to design school.
It’s meant to acknowledge intersectionality. The ways that minority identities can overlap, creating more complex lived experiences for some individuals.
No bussy? :(
No bussy for you
The V in LGTV stands for Van.
Are buses people who can take multiple inputs in parallel?
Roleplaying a bus driver in a three+some sounds fun in a weird way.
Or maybe I’m completely misinterpreting what you said.
