#progressive flag

[sunnysam-my]

Why I don't use 'Progressive flag'

And why you should consider not to either.

Short answer? It's not progressive. It's as simple as that. Oh, and it's ugly as hell. And the creator of the OG flag advocated to go back to the older flag before he died.

Seriously, it's a nightmare of a design. Just like saying LGBTQIA2S+ is impossible to properly comprehend. It's simply too busy, too long, there's too much going on. By adding more letters or stripes we lose the meaning.

There are so many flags, are we going to add them all?

The intentions are good, but unfortunately progressive flags are way less inclusive than any other rainbow flag.

You see, pride flag was always inclusive. It has always represented queer POC, and trans people and intersex and anyone else who see themselves as part of the LGBT+ community.

The idea in highlighting certain parts of community that are often left out and controversial in the community had it's reasons. Despite that it's a stupid ass decision that implies people of colour, trans and intersex weren't a part of the community. That the flag didn't represent them.

In 1978, the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, designed the first rainbow flag, urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S., to create a symbol of pride for the gay community. Baker saw the rainbow as a natural flag from the sky, so he adopted eight colors for the stripes, each color with its own meaning (hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit).

Baker and a team of volunteers had made the first flag by hand, for the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade on June 25, 1978. Quickly he wanted to mass-produce the flag for consumption by all. However, because of production issues, the pink stripe was removed while indigo and turquoise merged to create basic blue, which resulted in the famous six-striped flag.

{source of slightly altered text about the history of the flag}

Since 2003 Gilbert Baker has been advocating to restore the flag to its original 8 stripe state. He died in 2017.

So here's my proposal:

Let's get back to the pink. Let's give it a new meaning. Let's put pink on the 6 striped flag for those of us who were thrown out, just like the pink was, because it was inconvenient to keep us. Nowadays it's not as hard to produce pink, so why not? It doesn't divide or alienate us more, it pays tribute to the old flag while also being distinct and new.

[mikamimidraws]

More pride art pieces from last years

[somoteitbee]

I made more frogs. Enjoy.

You can buy them as stickers if you want. There’s more than this too. I take requests for flags.

[cosmeretrek]

Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

[prideknights]

✨LIMITED EDITION✨The Pride Knights Playing Cards are now officially available for pre-order in our store until June 30, 2023!

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[samimarkart]

reimagining of a piece from last year 🤍

[walking-fandom-encyclopaedia]

Extremely pleased with the stunning quality of these @prideknights enamel pins. A lovely surprise to receive today

[ffffinalizer]

what are you gonna do if your lifelong nemesis-with-benefits gets backhanded by father, son, and holy ghost?

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aldo: at least let me put a band-aid on it

the band-aid:

[the-rodgulhaj]

here internet, have a shitty progress flag made of sharks

it probably could have been better but it was made on google slides on my phone because that’s all i have on me at the moment

enjoy :]

[runeehyst]

Whale Shark Pride pt.1 🐳🏳️‍🌈

[loki-god-of-mischief-13]

Pride Mezuzahs

If I forgot your flag, tell me. Happy pride to the Jews in my phone.

[star-cats]

(Art by Yoffeepop on reddit)

"South African flag in weird colors"

[suffersinfandom]

You wouldn't believe how long this tiny little guy took to make

[charlies-a-thief]

This spread is taking me forever to finish because I keep jumping from drawing to drawing 😭

[incognitopolls]

Followup to this poll about the progress pride flag.

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[prideknights]