Meanings from top to bottom:
Violet - History of the Lesbian Community
Violet for historical lesbian meanings. Lesbians have been around forever. We cannot forget those who stood for our rights before us.
Blue Violet - Butches (and Studs/GNC)
Blue violet, for butches. I had blue based off the popular and heartwarming book about butches, “Stone Butch Blues” by Leslie Feinburg. The violet and blue together represent the complicated relationship many butches feel with being GNC, butch, and loving other women.
For our trans sisters, who helped fight for our community, and all of the LGBT+ community in general. Lilac based off of the trans lesbian flag, which has a lilac like color in it. No L without the T, support your sisters, not just your cisters!
Unity of all lesbians, whether you’re trans, nb, ace/aro, disabled, a person of color, mentally ill/neurodivergent, chronically ill, butch/femme or neither, etc. this community is a place for everyone, and the one thing we all have in common is we love women. (Trans [woman] exclusionary radical feminists excluded.)
Light Pink - Non Binary Lesbians
For our not so binary lesbians. Gender is hard to navigate, but it’s good to have a place in your community. We support and love you! Light pink based off the NB lesbian flag, which contains a similar color.
For femme lesbians. This shade of pink is a somewhat cloudy color, representing even the femmes who have complicated gender relationships, and those with inner conflict on how they perform femininity for women and not for society.
The strength we have as a community, to love, support, and uplift each other. For the romanticism, sexuality, love, friendship, freedom, and everything good and amazing about healthy lesbian relationships, platonic, familial, or romantic. The strength to love proudly, strongly, loudly, and wholeheartedly.
We already have a flag! Why did you make another one?
As a lesbian of color, I felt uncomfortable with using a flag that makes me feel excluded to my community. I also discovered many other lesbians feel the same way. The original creator of the pink lesbian flag is biphobic, racist / fetishistic to women of color, and she hates butches. These go against what many lesbians value; butches are the reasons we are femmes, bi girls are our sisters, our friends, our wives and girlfriends. Racism excludes all lesbians of color which makes many of us feel unwelcome. Additionally, this flag was the “Lipstick Lesbian Flag”. There were no meanings behind the flag. The flag was for lipstick lesbians, so many feel like this flag didn’t represent them. This flag also has become popular with [lesbian] T[W]ERFS who claim that the rainbow flag is exclusionary to [cis]lesbians and promotes “Trans Agenda”. Many of our trans siblings are not comfortable with this flag due to T[W]ERFs using it to deny their rightful place in our community.
Okay… But there’s so many people who made flags also! Why not just use one of them and not make the 10th new one? It just adds to the problem!
Well, I support and love the other lesbian flags. However, a few of them I find eye strainy. The labrynth flag was made by a man, and has heavy anti-semitic and T[W]ERF connotations to it. Additionally, I would like to leave most of the old flag behind as possible. While I enjoy the orange-pink flag, personally I find it more as a butch/femme flag [orange flag being for butches and pink (lipstick lesbian) for femmes]. I do like the format of 7 stripes; bi has the 3 stripes, the middle being shorter, trans flag has 5 stripes, etc. I made this flag as an alternative for myself and others who want to use it. No one is making you use it.
No credit is required for icons etc, but is appreciated! If making any sort of pride gear based off my flag [for non profit/personal use] please credit me if you post an image of it. If selling for profits, please DM me to discuss!
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