#Lesbian Flag

[daugherly]

MONSTEBIAN⠀⠀⸻⠀⠀A Flag For Lesbians Who are Monsters ((&& like pink，Fem Things)) ♡

[frenzyarts]

Hello my fellow dykes, we have officially become visible ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

All sillies aside, please consider donating to Emily Gwen or sharing this if you can! Link

[callapilla]

the fact that emily gwen lives in poverty while i can walk into target and buy unauthorized reproductions of their work is fucking disgusting frankly. corporations deserve to be hanged en masse but until we can do that for the love of g-d PLEASE keep queer money in the queer community. buy directly from queer artisans like emily, make your own pride merch if you have to, but we need to stop giving our money to rainbow capitalists who are literally, openly stealing from us already. i love target's pride section but i would rather spend $75 on a handmade flag someone actually sat and sewed out of real strips of coloured fabric so they could pay rent than $5 on a strip of screen-printed polyester that nobody got compensated for making at all.

[ohmyoverland]

the creator of the lesbian flag needs financial help. time to get some cool sapphic merch

[minxinq]

yearn

[karmelarts]

toxic yuri lesbian flag color picked from juri and shiori from revolutionary girl utena

[littleevil0ne1]

❤️🧡 Lord send me a Lesbian with a Baseball bat 🩷💜

Happy Pride!

Psssst You can get this as a sticker on my teepublic store!

https://www.teepublic.com/user/littleevil0ne

[sandswirls]

They’re girlfriends :)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

A Tumblr store opened near my house that looked like a gas station and they were waving the rainbow pride flag, the lesbian pride flag, the trans pride flag, and the Italian flag.

[bearybutch]

lesbians and their weapons of choice

[makerofmoodboards]

A cute cows lesbian moodboard!

[mossandfable]

The lesbian flag, but it's colour-picked from 1939 Glinda

[theprideful]

if someone wants to help emily gwen (creator of the lesbian flag) afford basic necessities here is their ko-fi. if you can’t donate, reblogging this would really help them out

edit: please do not tag this post with “reblog bait”

[Image description: a retweet by Emily Gwen. The first tweet, also from them, reads: "hey I have like $4 to my name and desperately need fuel and some groceries if anyone is able to help me out I would love u forever ko-fi.com/emilygwen". their retweet reads: "Hi, it's me again, being very very annoying and begging for help because my gf and I are really struggling, esp with her too sick to work rn." The tweet was made 29th August, 2022. End Image Description]

[forsapphics]

Reneé Rapp with a lesbian flag at the "Snow Hard Feelings" Tour in Paris, France (13/02/2024)

[mel-loly]

[foldingfittedsheets]

I made my first pride flag set in 2017, the cute little dragons. At the time there wasn’t an agreed upon lesbian flag going around. The movement around the current one started gaining traction in 2018 (at least on tumblr), which is when the trouble started for me.

The first time I heard there was a lesbian flag I did get a little excited. But when I saw it I was immediately turned off. It was so… pink. That didn’t look how I felt. It felt like society’s cute idea of lesbian colors, still being forced into cute pink skirts like I had been all my life. I would later learn it was pioneered as the Lipstick Lesbian Flag. The rainbow felt more like me.

While I was still mulling how I felt about it, the doxxing started. Despite the flags youth it had some rather extreme proponents. I’d get tagged and harassed for not having a lesbian flag. Bigger blogs would deride me as being lesbophobic, pushing me further from the label I’d liked best. I didn’t want to be a lesbian if it meant being associated with those people.

Many of the blogs targeting me were TERFs, linking the pinkness to an exclusion of men. That’s when it really started to bother me. Trans folk all share the same flag, regardless of gender despite very different experiences. Every other sexuality shared! Why were lesbians booting gay men out the door? Why wasn’t the movement for a homo flag?

Then I started finding other creators talking about it. The harassment and rabid fury if they didn’t carry lesbian flag merch. The lesbian flags didn’t sell but woe betide anyone for not offering them. Gay men have never swarmed my inbox demanding a flag. Gay men don’t mind sharing a rainbow- and I don’t either.

For a long time the lesbian flag became a trigger. I’d scan my notes and my heart would start pounding when someone would mention it. I was on edge waiting for more harassment and attacks. I’d tense up seeing it on profile pics, wary of who was using it.

It’s become ubiquitous over the past several years. It will never be my flag, but I accept that it’s around. Regardless of meanings assigned arbitrarily to the colors later, it’s just not for me. I love the rainbow, I love sharing it with everyone. I’m pretty certain I’ll never offer a lesbian flag in my shop. But I’ll always have a rainbow.