at least can all we agree that the original gay flag with the magic and sex colours is BEAUTIFUL and it should make a comeback
what’s more iconic than this
A lot of places still make at least some stuff with this flag! It is often referred to as the “Gilbert Baker flag” after the creator of the first Pride flag, who designed this version.
The reason pink and turquoise got dropped wasn’t because people decided they weren’t important. It was impossible to source fabric to make them, or not in quantities and at prices that made them reasonable. You could make one by hand, but you couldn’t order one from a flag supply company.
Red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple are easy fabric colors. Hot pink & turquoise are not. Or, were not, in 1978. There’s a few other issues involved in the switch, but the key part is: those colors were very hard to find.
We have more resources now. We can have sex & magic in our pride flags.
Me: Did you say something? Sorry, I was having a non-Forever Knight-inspired Deborah Duchene and Catherine Disher moment. Check out this website I just found. IMAGES OF THEM NOT FROM FOREVER KNIGHT.
Natalie begs, Nick, please. Nick answers, The life that I can give him is worse than death, Nat. Natalie answers Nick angrily, Oh, is it, really? Well, then why don’t you just walk out in the sun and end it all right now? If what you have is so terrible, then just kill yourself.
Republicans focus on their hate to rally their base. Again and again. It’s the one constant.
#SundaySemon #pt2
They will tell you that they don’t “hate” anyone. They just believe rich white cis het Christian men should be in charge of everything, and everyone else should cater to their whims. Any legislation or social change that challenges that is considered “immoral.”
And they shift their target to whoever’s marginalized but on the verge of widespread acceptance and integration.
The script remains the same: “Would you let your daughter date a ____?”
(Because. Of course they expect to control who their children date. And of course it is only daughters who are expected to remain under control of some man forever.)
“Her heavy hair was full of the perfume of roses and sandalwood. Beneath the languor of her heavy lids slept passionate violence. She was almost terrifyingly beautiful.”
— Renée Vivien, tr. by Jeanette H. Foster, from “A Woman Appeared To Me,”
