Furthermore, complicated flags cost more to make, which often can limit how widely they are used. Under these circumstances, only simple designs make effective flags. Flags must be seen from a distance and from their opposite side. Extra black and brown stripes were suggested for that flag as a way to highlight the fight against racism, while honoring “black and brown members of the gay community,” its designers explained.įlags flap. Quasar, who is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to produce the new design, wishes to improve on a 2017 rainbow flag redesign revealed at gay pride festivities in Philadelphia last year. It was admitted to the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection in 2015 Designed in 1978 by artist-activist Gilbert Baker, the rainbow flag was a conceived as a unifying symbol for LGBTQ communities to “proclaim its own idea of power,” as Baker recounts in the book, Stitching a Rainbow. In a project called “ Progress: A PRIDE Flag Reboot,” Quasar introduces four extra symbolic hues in the existing six-color pennant.
PICTURE OF GAY FLAG COLORS UPDATE
That version only got 262 likes, while the red and pink has garnered almost 11,000.Ī purple version, with a royal purple background and a lavender equality symbol, was the group's profile picture from October until this week.In the quest to appease LGBTTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual) communities seeking representation, Portland-based designer Daniel Quasar has proposed an update to the iconic rainbow flag. The red and pink version of the Human Rights Campaign logo that went viral after becoming the HRC's Facebook picture, though, replaced a short-lived earlier red version with a yellow equality symbol-like the red and pink version, it was uploaded on Monday. Pink, meanwhile, was the color representative of sexuality on the original eight-hue LGBT pride flag (more on that later).
When HRC spokesperson Charlie Joughin spoke to MSNBC this week about the viral red logo, Joughin briefly explained the color choice: "Red is a symbol for love, and that's what marriage is all about." Red and pink have traditionally been associated with Valentine's Day, which, yes, is all about love-and, moreover, red is sometimes used symbolically as the color of passion, the color of courage, and the color of seduction or sexuality. The fight for LGBT rights has adopted several memorable pigments and color schemes throughout its history. This isn't the first time, though, that the LGBT movement has chosen a bold color to unite itself in the struggle for equality.
As of Wednesday, the HRC's original image had been shared 66,000 times. There's no clear metric for how many Facebook users adopted the pink and red logo as their profile pictures, but it quickly became ubiquitous enough to turn many people's Facebook feeds a new shade of crimson-as well inspire a host of spin-off profile pictures, including an equals sign made from bacon strips, an equals sign made from two mustaches, and a Bert and Ernie-approved logo, among others. The special occasion was the Supreme Court's discussions on California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, which began on Tuesday. On Monday, HRC replaced its Facebook profile photo and the campaign's regular logo-a yellow "equals" sign inside a navy-blue square-on its website with a magenta-stripe, red-background interpretation of the same design. The gay-rights activism group the Human Rights Campaign turned social-media world red this week. The Human Rights Campaign Wikimedia Flickr / Blackfox - D.T.