with the help of my friends, I made a new lesbian flag that has a meaning since the widespread lesbian flag we use has no meaning and was just posted as the lipstick/femme lesbian flag on a blog back in 2010. I know a lot of lesbians including myself who would rather have a flag with a meaning, so my friends & I are hoping this is gonna catch on eventually!
from top to bottom, the meanings of the colors are: loyalty/trust, freedom to love women, trans/nb lesbians, serenity, and pride/love for oneself.
after a lot of input from people on this post, I’ve realized some things that need fixing about the colors of this flag. with the help of my friends again, we’ve made modifications to the flag. the two top colors have changed to fit better together, and the flag as a whole is more saturated. thank you all for your criticisms on the flag because that helped a lot with fixing it! this is the finalized version:
since a couple of people were asking as well, it is okay to use this flag as icons/headers/etc and is okay to use without credit but I would appreciate it since the flag is fairly new. I also 100% don’t mind people who aren’t lesbians reblogging this, as long as you’re being respectful and are spreading this for your lesbian followers I appreciate it!
special thanks to @cerebrite & @maidofluck for helping me with the original flag, and @lesbistani & a friend who does not wanna be mentioned for helping with the finalized version!
my ace/lesbian friend went to a pride festival today!!! im super happy for her!!!
the shitty part is that she left an hour in because she was scared of getting punched. for carrying an ace flag. at pride.
someone threatened her. at pride. because she was ace.
i dont wanna dabble in ~discourse~ but hey!!! maybe don’t make people scared of the community that should make them feel safe!!!! thats my hot take!!!!
yes i know she was a lesbian, and she should’ve been at pride for being a LESBIAN not an asexual. @applejuicewerewolf i saw she’s a lesbian, but did you see the part where i said what that person did was wrong?? i guess not. i’m saying it’s wrong, but what she did was also wrong. and i don’t hate ace people. they’re just not lgbt.
you guys seeing this shit
Love how people are saying “Well aces make people uncomfortable” when the fact of the matter is someone THREATENED HER for being ace REGARDLESS of being a lesbian.
And op added in the notes that their(?) friend was also wearing a lesbian flag shirt. So it would have been pretty fucking obvious this person was also a lesbian, since they were wearing the ace flag as a cape (and presumably didn’t have any sort of jacket on).
But, hey, I guess aces shouldn’t be welcomed at pride, even the ~otherwise lgbt~ ones. (/s)
Any holy shit, look at the fucking notes. Rebel/blaze is there saying that this ace lesbian shouldn’t have been threatened but that she shouldn’t have been celebrating the ace part of her identity because that’s “not appropriate” and is bound to make lgbt people feel unsafe.
But it’s only about the cishets, right?
More evidence that aphobes and other exclusionists are just more authoritarians that want to police the ingroup to the point of violence.
Authoritarianism is trash, just like aphobia and exclusionism.
Did I ever mention the time that I found out my lecturer was the ghost in one of my classmate’s home town?
Righto. So a couple years ago I took a Myths and Legends class for uni. The lecturer was this really incredible guy. Loved history. Dressed, everyday, to the nines. Top hat, waistcoat, leather shoes etc. In one of the introductory classes he had us share stories we had heard, local myths and legends from the towns we grew up in. I was studying in Ballarat, an Australian town with a rich ghost history and so it made sense that a lot of people had answers. This one girl, however, grew up in a small rural town a couple hours away and talked about the ghost she knew of from when she was in high school. Every night, at the same time of night (about 3am), people recounted seeing a Victorian man walk across the golf field. This one was particularly interesting because she had seen herself. That is, where other people had just heard these stories, she knew that what had been talked about was real.
This was when he turned red. It had turned out that when he was studying for his undergrad he was living in this particular town. Not many people knew him because he didn’t grow up there. He would spend countless nights up late working and so to wind would go on long late night walks. At 3am, every night. In the full garb he wore everyday.
It had turned out that him being the stand out that he was, had birthed a legend. He had known about it but never did he think it would catch up with him.
As a French person who speaks English I hope that one day I’ll get the opportunity to say “Pardon my French but” and then loudly swear in French as God intended.
The Chaos Bitches 