#daniel quasar

[yourdailyqueer]

Daniel Quasar

Gender: Non binary (Xe/xem/they)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Artist, graphic designer

Note: Known for their design of the Progress Pride flag

[foxlore24]

So I was on tiktok shop last night, and I found this gem

My boyfriend and I now call the progress pride flag, the Daniel Quasar flag

[stele3]

Literally the person who came up with the Progress Pride flag design is a AMAB nonbinary person, besties.

And yet even websites like LGBTQnation refer to them with male pronouns.

“ever notice how all nonbinary people are afab?” no but i have noticed how every single amab nonbinary person ive come across is either forcibly labeled as a trans woman or a cis guy who just Loudly Gay 

[orteil42]

was the prism heart cookie for the valentines event supposed to look like the progress pride flag? if yes, genuinely thank you for that, it brightened my day. if no, still thanks for putting a rainbow cookie because it made me smile

this one? yes! specifically it's one of the intersectional variants - it includes the brown and black stripes, but was added to the game too early for Daniel Quasar's 2018 version that added the transgender stripes. (i can't recall for sure but judging from dates and designs the 2017 Philadelphia eight-stripe may have been the one i was going for?) it's been slipping my mind but i'd like to either update that one or add a new heart biscuit with proper trans stripes one day!

[hotvampireadjacent]

Normally I hate any kind of change but I really like the progress pride flag design. It highlights black and brown lgbt community memebers and trans people while keep much of Gilbert Baker’s original gay pride flag

I was curious about the history bc I only started seeing this flag recently.

According to this website I found “The Progress Pride flag was developed in 2018 by non-binary American artist and designer Daniel Quasar (who uses xe/xyr pronouns). Based on the iconic rainbow flag from 1978, the redesign celebrates the diversity of the LGBTQ community and calls for a more inclusive society”

Source: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-progress-pride-flag

Really cool

[lokiprincess]

The Different Colors of the Pride Flag:

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

🤎 Brown represents Inclusivity (Added to the traditional six stripe rainbow flag, alongside black, by Daniel Quasar in 2018.)

[owlisdoodles]

okay, but consider this?

We NEED to put sex and magic back on the pride flag right now

[korshrimpski]

happy pride night kings fans <3

[ID: two images that are split in half that make a whole jersey when put together. the jersey is plain white, with a la kings shoulder patch on the left hand side and progress pride flag on the right hand side. The centre piece of the jersey is a logo in a black square that says “PRIDE” in the kings italic-swift font. Each letter is in the order of the rainbow starting with the colour orange and ending with purple. Surrounding the logo is different circular patches of pride flags and kings logos. On the left (next the the “P”) there is the Asexual Flag, a kings logo with their crown, the mlm gay flag, and a lesbian flag that is in the shape of a heart. On the right side (next to the “E” ) is the Non-binary flag, the Bisexual flag, Pansexual flag, a kings patch that says “GKG” and a trans flag that is in the shape of a heart

In the top left is the Pride patch and the text underneath explaining what it is:

PRIDE PATCH:

As an LGBTQ+ rights movement, Pride started with the Stonewall Riots of 1969 with the first Pride parade following in 1970 at the anniversary of these riots. In the last 50 plus years since, Pride celebrations have spread through out the world.

In the right hand side of the page it explain the progress flag

PROGRESS PRIDE FLAG PATCH:

Designed in 2018 by Daniel Quasar, the Progress Pride Flag makes additions to the traditional pride flag to highlight spotlight especially marginalized groups. The white, pink, and light blue strips were added to represent the trans community, while the black and brown stripes represent the communities of color. The black stripe also signifies those lost to HIV/AIDs in the 1980s and 1990s.

In the bottom right centre next to the jersey it highlights all the differences in the LGBTQ+ community

SEXUAL ORIENTATION & GENDER IDENTITY PATCHES:

The queer community includes a wide variety of sexualities and genders, many of which are represented by flags of their own. With only a few of these being able to be represented on this jersey, we encourage our fans to learn more about all queer identities not listed here as we continue to create a community where we celebrate and accept all of our differences! / END ID.]

here is what it looks like on a person [insta / twitter ]

[booksinmythorax]

On Tyranny and Tumblr #4: Take responsibility for the face of the world

The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.

Some of this must be done offline. If you are financially able, now is a good time to stock up on stickers from Black Lives Matter, the Progress Initiative* and/or other organizations that make Pride flag stickers, Planned Parenthood, or independent artists walking their talk while making stickers whose messages you agree with. (Watch out for giant corporations and dropshippers.)

Hell, make your own stickers! Sell them if you want, or don't, but do put them up in public spaces where stickering is allowed (or isn't allowed but is happening anyway). Place your own symbols and cover hateful ones.

If you're a graffiti artist, do your thing. If you see a graffiti artist doing their thing and they're not being a fascist about it, no you don't!

Look, bumper sticker activism won't save the world. It won't. But taking down or taping over hate symbols in the real world and making symbols of progress, solidarity, and liberation more visible has an impact. As a queer person, I exhale a little bit - a little bit - when I see someone else wearing a Progress Pride pin or with a rainbow sticker on their car.

Snyder asserts that "Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much... You might one day be offered the opportunity to display symbols of loyalty. Make sure that such symbols include your fellow citizens rather than exclude them" (Snyder 33-35).

Snyder uses imperfect language here. Whether a person is a citizen or not, is documented or not, is like you or not, make sure the symbols you display include them rather than exclude them.

Don't display symbols you don't agree with to avoid trouble. And don't avoid displaying any symbols at all out of fear. Your silence may be louder than you think.

Some ways we can apply this in our online lives include:

-Educate yourself on hate symbols, and update your knowledge regularly. Dogwhistles change when hate groups realize we're on to them. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League are good resources for learning about active hate groups and their current symbols.

-Let your mutuals or people you follow know if they are posting hateful symbols. Approach them one-on-one as if they are making a mistake, because they might be! I just had a conversation with an acquaintance in real life who had no idea that the Punisher skull is being used as a symbol by real-life far-right paramilitary groups.

-If you see accounts using hate speech or symbols repeatedly and on purpose, report them. Use the ADL database above and/or articles from the SPLC or other trustworthy publications as evidence in your report, since not everyone knows about every current hate symbol.

-Keep posting and reblogging content you believe in. Don't shame people; "I bet no one will reblog this", "No one is talking about this AND YOU KNOW WHY", and "If you don't reblog this you're a ___" are just not helpful, constructive, or true. But make your online space into a place with symbols that reflect who your activism includes.

*The Progress Initiative is not a 501(c)3 nonprofit, but the shop of Daniel Quasar, the person who created the original Progress Pride flag. Quasar enthusiastically encourages the creation and use of variations on their flag design, including those that include the intersex flag symbol.

Other lessons from On Tyranny:

#1: Do not obey in advance

#2: Defend institutions

#3: Beware the one-party state

#5-7: Remember professional ethics, Be wary of paramilitaries, and Be reflective if you must be armed

#8: Stand out

#9: Be kind to our language

#10: Believe in truth

[sheriiam]

Since today marks the 53rd year since the first Pride parade took place, let's dive into the history of the "progress" of our Pride flag.

This new flag is called the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag, created by Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK in 2021. It is an update to the previous Progress Pride Flag created in 2018 by Daniel Quasar.

The original pride flag was created in the 1970s by gay activist Gilbert Baker, friend of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. The flag made its debut at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978. Baker used eight colors―

― hot pink for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit.

Why Was Pink Removed From the Pride Flag?

The original hot pink color was removed from the pride flag because the fabric was difficult to find.

The Progress Pride Flag was created with the inspiration of other pride flags—specifically, the Philadelphia Pride Flag from 2017 and the trans flag.

The Philadelphia Pride Flag had black and brown vertical stripes added. The trans flag, created in 1999, is pink, baby blue, and white. Both of these flags inspired the design of the new pride flag.

Black and Brown Represents People of Color

The Philadelphia Pride Flag was designed by the Philadelphia Office of LGBT Affairs and was done in partnership with advertising agency Tierney. It was introduced at a City Hall ceremony in June of 2017. The flag showed the traditional six rainbow colors in horizontal stripes, with a black and a brown stripe atop them.

The colors black and brown were added to the Progress Pride Flag to represent people of color (POC). This was an important addition because people of color have often been left out of the queer narrative despite being the driving force behind the movement.

With the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, culture at large began to shift in a much-needed way towards acknowledging the vital roles that people of color have had in our society. The pride movement background is one of many areas where POC, particularly Black people, did not receive the recognition they deserved historically. Adding colors to represent them on the flag is one way to change that.

Additionally, the black and brown stripes are meant to represent people living with HIV/AIDS, those who have died from it, and the stigma around the virus that is still present in our society now.

Pink, Baby Blue, and White Represent Trans People

Transwoman Monica Helms created the trans pride flag, which first flew in a pride parade in Phoenix, Arizona back in 2000. Monica Helms is a transgender activist, author, and U.S. Navy veteran.

Traditionally, the colors pink and baby blue have been used to represent whether a baby is a boy or a girl. Here, the colors denote those genders. The color white represents people who are transitioning, intersex, or identify outside of the gender binary.

The word "progress" in the new flag isn't only about adding the new colors to it. It's also because of the shape, which differs from the original design of horizontal stripes only. The Progress Pride Flag shows the white, pink, baby blue, black, and brown stripes in a triangle shape, with the old six-color rainbow stacked next to them.

This was done intentionally to convey the separation in meaning and shift focus to how important the issues represented on the left are.

The placement of the new colors in an arrow shape is meant to convey the progress still needed. Quasar spoke publicly about how work is still needed in terms of POC and trans rights. This arrow design is meant to highlight that.

Although the Pride flag continues to evolve, the most recent update includes a yellow triangle with a purple circle inside it to represent the intersex community. It now serves as the most up-to-date LGBTQIA+ flag.

[vanteaux]

Y'all were so right here you go

Pride flag color picked from that one image in hbomberguy's plagiarism video

[cheesyradfem]

It’s pretty disturbing (for me) that someone claiming the lipstick lesbian flag was created by an “acephobe” is enough to get it removed from public platforms (such as Google); but when you point out that Daniel Quasar created the “”Progress”” Pride Flag because he didn’t feel gay pride was an important enough issue (not to mention making it mere months after Gilbert Baker’s death, when he’d updated his own 1978 pride flag shortly before he passed), you’re the bigot, and everyone (from government buildings to zoos to major corporations) are posting it everywhere without considering how homophobic it is.

[cobrastrikes421]

LGBTQ art

Bisexual fact:

Overall, 4% of U.S. adults say they identify as bisexual, according to an August 2023 survey by the Center. Younger adults are more likely than older Americans to describe themselves as bisexual. the term bisexual was used in Dutch for the first time in 1877, to refer to a hermaphrodite who had their sexual career as both a heterosexual woman and a heterosexual man. Later, the term bisexuality is used to represent both the double sexual-object choice and androgyny.

Aromantic fact:

Aromantic people can also form non-romantic relationships of all types, as well as being able to enjoy sexual relationships. They may also choose to have children, and studies indicate that aromantic individuals are no less likely to have children than alloromantic individuals. One of the earliest uses of the modern term "aromantic" dates back to 2005. The early online community around aromanticism formed on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN), an online community around asexuality, and social media platforms such as tumblr.

Progress fact:

a reinterpretation of multiple iterations of the pride flag. The original 'rainbow flag' was created by Gilbert Baker in 1978 to celebrate members of the gay and lesbian political movement. It comprised eight coloured stripes stacked on top of each other to evoke a rainbow, a symbol of hope. Daniel Quasar (xe/xyr pronouns) is the creator of the Progress Pride flag, a combination of the original Pride flag by Gilbert Baker, the Trans Pride flag by Monica Helms in 1999, the More Color, More Pride flag introduced by Amber Hikes in 2017, and a black stripe from the Victory Over AIDS flag, inspired by Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, to represent those lost during the AIDS crisis. This flag design “forces the viewer to confront

Aro/ace fact:

Aromantic asexual people are colloquially known as "aro-ace" or "aroace". Aromantic individuals are also able to experience platonic love and may have committed friendships, and some form intimate non-romantic partnerships called "queerplatonic relationships". the early 2000s as a way for individuals to explore and understand their experiences of limited or absent sexual and romantic attractions.

Agender fact:

agender" was actually on the Internet! It was born in the year 2000, on an Internet forum called UseNet. In a chat room discussion entitled alt. messianic, a user posted the following: “God is amorphous, agender, so image can't be a physical or gender or sexual thing.” Agender is a term used by individuals who do not identify with any specific gender or who experience a lack of gender altogether. Agender people have a sense that their gender identity is completely neutral, or does not exist at all. They may use words like "genderless" and "gender free" to describe themselves.

Trigender fact:

In Ancient Greece, Phrygia, and the Roman Republic and Empire, Cybele and Attis were worshiped by galli priests (documented from around 200 BCE to around 300 CE) who wore feminine clothes, referred to themselves as women, and often castrated themselves, and have therefore been seen as early transgender figures. The exact origin of the term "trigender" is unknown, but it has been mentioned as early as 1998. The prefix tri- means three, so "trigender" literally means "three gender".

Gay fact:

2400 BCE, are speculated to have been gay based on a representation of them embracing nose-to-nose in their shared tomb, though critics say that they were likely brothers. In 1978 Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, and the first openly gay or lesbian person to be elected to public office in California, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. "The green (Community) and teal (Joy) in the flag represent Nature. I thought this was important because love between men is often seen as “unnatural” in the eyes of society and in religion. Furthermore, gay men have historically used green flowers and plants (Carnations, hyacinths, etc.) to symbolize our love, reinforcing our connection with Nature. The white stripe is adopted from the Trans Pride flag because trans, nb, and GNC men are often erased or talked over and need explicit representation.

Pansexual fact:

the hybrid words pansexual and pansexualism were first attested in 1914 (spelled pan-sexualism), coined by opponents of Sigmund Freud to denote the idea "that the sex instinct plays the primary part in all human activity, mental and physical". created to differentiate between the bisexuality flag, which also has three horizontal bars. It was created on the internet sometime around 2010, and has gained popularity since then. The Pansexual symbol combines the male, female, and transgender symbols into one, new, P-shaped symbol representing pansexuality.

Demigirl fact:

The earliest demigirl flag was created on April 15th, 2014 by Tumblr user kyriefortune. The second demigirl flag was created on August 24th, 2015 by pride-flags based on Willow's demiguy flag. Another flag was posted on the same day by pride-flags also based on Willow's demiguy flag. A gender identity term for someone who was assigned female at birth but does not fully identify with being a woman, socially or mentally. transgender pride-flag, retaining the central white & pink stripes representing enbies & women, but with 4 added horizontal stripes of different shades of grey to signify a disconnect and/or uncertainty associated with this gender-identity.

Hope you all had a great pride month. Can’t wait to do more of them.

What pride art should I do next year?

[aftonfamilyvalues]

The progress pride flag really helps with one thing. It breaks the stereotype that gay people have a good sense of style.

the reasoning is the worst too.

daniel quasar, the creator of the progress flag, says he wants to "honor the legacy" of gilbert baker and his design all while covering up a quarter of it

he intentionally created a separation of transness and gayness, citing that theres a "difference in meaning" between the two. funnily enough, whenever gay people say the same thing or try to focus on lgb activism because, you know, theyre just so different from the t, they get called transphobic and are accused of wanting trans people to cease to exist

separation between the black and brown stripes from the rainbow also suggests that no one but the "cis white gays" are represented by it

centering the trans flag over the rainbow because its more "important" is saying that trans people are more important than gay people

the "forward movement" of the chevron on the left towards the right means that, eventually, the entire rainbow will covered up

[son-of-avraham]

hi, I've never heard of the progress pride flag, could you show what it is/tell a bit about it? thank🤍

Quick note that I'll be speaking a bit about the queer scene in the U.S., so this may not be applicable internationally

The progress pride flag, before I delve into this a bit further, is this:

This was created around 2018 as a reinterpretion/reimagining of the Philadelphia pride flag:

Essentially, these flags were both created with inclusion in mind. The black and brown stripes were made specifically to call to mind inclusion of queer PoC (though there are interpretations of the black stripe also representing the people we lost in the AIDs crisis). In the U.S., there has been a long-standing history of racism within the queer community - many PoC within the community don't feel safe or welcome within the broader queer community.

As time went on, there was also inspiration to explicitly call attention to the inclusion of trans people, as well, largely for the same reasons. With that in mind, Daniel Quasar created the progress pride flag. What's cool about it is the chevron/triangle represents progress moving forward.

And in 2021, the most recent progress iteration was made:

The first thing many people notice is how cluttered this flag looks. I'm not someone who uses this flag often, however, I think inclusion is often messy and often is explicit like this. You can have any opinions about these flags as you can - but I'd encourage everyone to remember the flags stemmed from real struggles that marginalized people within the community faced from the people who were supposed to be our own.

Using these pride flags does not inherently mean someone is actively being inclusive to every type of queer person. Using flags alone is not activism. However, I think these can be good calling cards to be aware of as a way to potentially signal, "hey, we're normal about queers who aren't made visible within the community!"

[ladykeane]

I think the only way I will survive sitting through s6 of wwdits is by severely gaslighting myself

I will keep my screaming into the void under the cut

Nandermo who? 🙃🙃🙃Nandor and Guillermo's relationship has always been clinically platonic and they keep at least 5 feet apart at all times🙃🙃🙃

Also being queer has nothing to do with love and everything to do with paying royalties to daniel quasar so you can wave a coloured flag around for the duration of a twenty minute episode 🙃🙃🙃🙃

🙃🙃🙃Gosh I really hope Guillermo finds a nice generic heteronormative girlfriend this season🙃🙃🙃🙃 I might just rewatch s4 of BBC sherlock as a warm up 🙃🙃🙃

🙃🙃QUEERBATING WHAT DO YOU MEAN QUEERBATING 🙃🙃🙃 I'M FINE IT'S FINE IT'S ALL FINE🙃🙃🙃🙃

🙃🙃🙃PAUL SIMMS PUNCHED ME IN THE FACE ONE TIME AND IT WAS AWESOME 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃