We Have A Decision @which-lesbian-flag - Tumblr Blog

Time to say goodbye

We’ve finally decided to abandon this blog.

We both had a great time (albeit stressful at some points) creating and moderating the survey and we really hoped we helped in some way

We hope the rest of your 20gayteen is wonderful as can be 💜😄💙💜💕✨🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

- Niven and Cassidy 💖

#byeeee!!

Are you still active?

More or less, but we’ll probably abandon this blog pretty soon

-niv

#ask #anon #mod niv

Our Facebook page got terminated??? What did we do?

- Cas

Why the hell can I edit it this page when it’s not on my account anymore -niv

Wait I’m confused, what’s wrong with the lesbian flags that everyone already uses like the pink one adapted from the lipstick lesbian flag and the purple battle axe triangle one from the 90s? Did I miss something?

The creator of the lipstick flag is racist, ableist and biphobic amongst other things, many lesbians just don’t like the flag and don’t feel connected to it. Plus it’s very complicated and hard to make merch for so we get left out a lot and when we are included it sometimes costs more

The labrys has a few issues, the biggest one for me is that it was created by a journalist guy who wanted to avoid getting copyright, but there’s also the (controversial) issues of it using nazi imagery (the black triangle) and it being popular with TERFs. Whether these are issues or not is debated but clearly it is important to some

-Cas

#sorry if this seems rushed #ask #anon #i think its strange when people say the labrys is from the 90s #it was created in 1999 #so technically it was the 90s but it got most of its popularity during the early 2000s and even them that isnt much #mod cas

just wanna say that it kinda doesn't matter what the flag actually is, i mean i like the idea of ditching one made by someone with like ignorant opinions and i love the Meanings of the colors of the flag like not saying anything about that, but a pride flag really serves no purpose if it's not recognizable and common. Like. I think we need to focus on popularizing the new flag if anything's ever going to come of it, not just discussing the best version or other stuff. tldr more exposure needed.

Yep! Definitely, while this survey was helpful what really matters is popularity and exposure

#ask

smile-charlie

My new flag design ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Top: the flag

Middle left: meanings

Middle right: colour guide

Bottom left: butch

Bottom right: femme

The flag also has a sub-meaning of being a representive of butch, femme and the spectrum of lesbians with different presentations in between

#xtra flags

frenried

hey guys!! ive seen lots of discourse lately about the lesbian flag, and I decided that I might as well make my own design!! the main issues have been either that a flag looks too butch/femme, would be too hard/expensive to print, or was created by an exclusionist/inclusionist/etc. well im tryin to solve this issue with my flag!! there are less colors to make it easier for merch, the colors are fairly balanced between masculine, feminine, and neutral colors, and im not an inclusionist OR an exclusionist!! this flag means a lot to me and if some people were to use it (with credit <33) it would mean the world to me!! also!! here’s the color meanings!!

dark purple: butch lesbians

lilac: history of lesbians, how lesbians/sapphics used to give lilacs to women they had romantic feelings for

white: has two meanings: A- traditionally unconventional lesbians, like lesbians of color, aro/ace-spec lesbians, disabled lesbians, neurodivergent lesbians, trans/nb lesbians, basically all of the lesbians you never see in the media. the second meaning is the purity of lesbians, how being a lesbian isn’t inherently sexual, and there’s nothing wrong with being a lesbian.

light purple: femme lesbians!!

id greatly appreciate it if this could get lots of reblogs!! I worked hard on. it and I feel its a good way to represent our community!! im just gonna tag some popular blogs in hopes of getting some rbs

@letters-to-lgbt-kids @official-lesbian-flag @sapphicflags @which-lesbian-flag @newlesbianprideflag

also!! butch/femme/dark/pastel/POC versions under the cut!!

Keep reading

#xtra flags

Hey, I don’t mean for this to sound rude in any way, but would it upset either of you if someone wanted to make a survey of their own? Mostly because I wanna reach even more lesbians, especially lesbians of color, and have as many voices heard as possible. I’d want to spread it as far as possible, and maybe keep the survey up for longer? Again, this isn’t meant to be malicious in any way, and I’m sorry if it sounds mean!

If you want, we can’t stop you, but we appreciate that you asked us first, thank you

Hope everything goes well for you!

- niv

#ask #anon

Wait a second..... is flower-fille and flower-lesbienne the same person??? She’s a terf??

They are the same person but they aren’t a terf.

**flower uses they/them

#mod niv #ask #anon

flower-fille

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#pride design #mod cas

which-lesbian-flag

✨Time for the results! ✨

This was going to be longer because we originally looked at the flags in a little depth and suggested reason for their placement but tumblr kept closing down so we’re just giving you straight results

Fifth place

[10% of votes]

Fourth place

[11.2% of votes]

Third place

[17% of votes]

💜 Second place 💜

[27.9% of votes]

💜 First place 💜

[33.9% of votes]

Thank you to everybody who made a flag and everybody who cast a vote, We’re sorry if your flag didn’t win but we hope everybody is satisfied with these results ✨⭐️

@numonous @flower-lesbienne @sadlesbiandisaster @apersnicketylemon

dellcattie-deactivated20190326

Isn’t the flag supposed to be inclusive of the whole lesbian community? The winning flag isn’t a good choice because it doesn’t include lesbians who are non-trans, non-butch, non-femme, and non-aspec (according to the meanings that the flag’s creator assigned to each stripe)

mew-anti

But it’s…a lesbian flag..?

which-lesbian-flag

Hey! I think this reblg has been deleted so I’m not sure why it’s still showing up in the notes, here’s what happened

#mod niv

My major complaint for sadlesbiandisaster’s flag (aside from the aphobe thing) is that mercy would still be difficult to make? Not as difficult as the lipstick flag, but still

Yes, that’s an unfortunate problem with that flag, it’s slightly better because it’s not 6 shades of one colour but I imagine the amount of stripes would still make it difficult and it would still be more expensive, iirc somebody made a version with only 5 stripes but I think the issue then might be similarity to the trans flag..... this really isn’t a simple issue ha

#ask #anon #mod cas

which-lesbian-flag

Ahem

Nobody is forcing you to use the winning flag. Feel free to use whatever flag you wish and please do not spread rumours about the flag being “forced on you”

Also please don’t be rude to either the flag creator or people who have chosen to use this flag, I’ve seen this happening quite a lot since the results came out and bith mods would appreciate that people don’t do that.

Be respectful please.

- mod niv

which-lesbian-flag

When you realise the typo after it’s been reblogged a bunch