#rainbow – @kittennightfarts on Tumblr

if you say anything homophobic in June this truck comes out of nowhere and crushes you like that bus crushed Regina George

it’s optimus pride

#art #paintings #rainbow #rainboe truck #leul #lgbtq #pride #homophobia

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Happy Pride Month

#animals #cats #pride #lgbtq #rainbow #leul #cute

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nandalorian

#art #design #rainbow #furniture #cool

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I was asked how I made the rainbow light effect in my last piece, so I put together a quick step by step.

#photoshop #rainbow #flare #cool #references

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Full circle rainbow was captured over Cottesloe Beach near Perth, Australia in 2013 by Colin Leonhardt of Birdseye View

#colin leonhardt #art #photography #nature #rainbow #cottesloe beach #perth #australia

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Having separate flags is good bcos it’s good to have a symbol for your particular identity to embrace but it also important to remember the rainbow flag unites us all. All LGBT+ people can use it. I feel like it’s somehow become assumed by a lot of younger lgbt+ people that it’s only fr gay men, which it isn’t and never has been

The rainbow flag when originally created by Gilbert Baker in 1978 actually contained 8 stripes that were assigned values and specific meanings that were meant to show what unites us and what we value as a community,

It took 30 people to hand dye AND hand stitch the first 2 pride flags- 30 people of various identities came together to create the first symbol of pride. Hot pink was removed due to fabric shortages and turquoise was mixed with indigo to have the darker blue we have today.

Having individual flags is great to show your identity but I think we shouldn’t forget that the rainbow flag isn’t reserved for gay men, it was created to show what we all have in common regardless of identity.

ninja-suffragette

From and interview with Baker at The Museum of Modern Art:

MMF: You had a team of about 30 volunteers who helped make the first flags. Do you remember who any of them were? Can you tell us a little about any of them?

Baker: Sure! I want to give them all credit—there were so many people involved. Let’s go back to the fabric, where it starts. I think I got £753.83 ($1,000) from the parade committee, Cleve Jones, who later became an important activist for AIDS, was my friend, he ran the media committee for the parade and he helped me get the money—I said the flag would help visibility, create a story.

The next call I made was to a friend of mine—Fairy Argyle Rainbow. (I think I added the Rainbow on her name at a later date.) She was a hippie girl, was the queen of tie-dye. I knew I wanted to do an organic dye process—I knew Fairy from the Angels of Light [an experimental free theater group of the 1970s] and she was totally game. We made such a huge mess, we had so much fun!

I then called another friend of mine, James McNamara—he knew how to sew, he’d been to FIT [the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York] and was the only person who knew how to sew as well as I did. It took four hands to move the fabric through the machine, 20 hands to iron the fabric. I remember one day we had it all in the dye bath—you have to set the dye, and then you have to rinse it out. We looked at each other thinking “we’ll take it to the Laundromat.” Well, they have all these signs at the Laundromat saying “do not dye” so of course we wait until everyone is gone late at night and run into a Laundromat and fill every machine with quarters and blast them all—and [the machines turn] every color of the rainbow! We threw Clorox in [the machines] afterwards hoping that the next customers weren’t walking out of there with pink underwear! It was certainly not like the way they are made today, but I treasure those memories because it really was a beautiful process and I really love all the people who were there.

#gilbert baker #flag #rainbow #rainbow flag #history #lgbtq