Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely.

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Isn’t the rainbow meant to represent the spectrum. Like how rainbows show the visible spectrum of light?

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  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It would be a lot prettier that way

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    • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Are you trying to get the entire dcip3 banned??

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      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I thought of this because of your comment.

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    • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sure it has every color but does it have our specific color?

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      • Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah, this flag only shows saturated hues. This is unsaturated erasure.

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    • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      These are all straight lines, give me the real gay flag

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It… is kind of a giant mess.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ) is a good summary but the modern rainbow color scheme is a somewhat recent iteration.

    But much as “LGBT” has become “LGBTQ” and “LGBTQIA” and “LGBTQIA+” and so forth, so too have the flag added and removed stripes. And… a lot of that is intentional animosity since a shocking number of LGBTQIA+ folk are actually REALLY bigoted (the old “jokes” about how bisexual people need to “choose a side” and so forth) and it becomes a whole thing.

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    • Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I love the intersex-inclusive progress pride flag, which adds designs to the left that explicitly include three under-represented groups (BIPOC, trans+, and intersex).

      I once had someone, in earnest, complain at me that if we kept adding chevrons, the flag would have to get wider, and showed me an image that was like 1000 pixels by 20.

      And then got mad at me when I asked if I could have that as a scarf :)

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      • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Personally, the way I view it, the rainbow is most flexible, as it literally includes everyone (queer and nonqueer), and the progress pride (as in, pride + triangle with whatever is in there) mostly functions as an acknowledgement of especially repressed groups.

        View it like how countries have their national days, or how there are weeks of reading focused on a particular theme or subject (school homework included). That, but for queer stuff.

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    • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I haven’t really heard of those jokes and animosity. We’re not letting ourselves get divided.

      Comrade, remember that the fight is not with other queers, but with those who repress everyone; the oligarchs.

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