General
📛 Flag name
lesbian pride flag
📝 Identity Description
Lesbians are woman* romantically and/or sexually attracted to other woman*.
This community flag puts empathsies on the diversity of this idenity.
🔙 Origin
📜 Flag History
A while ago many different flags existed for people who identify as lesbians.
A user on tumblr by the name @official-lesbian-flag set out for the quest to settle the community for one flag to represent them. After many suggestions and votes a winner was declared: The lesbian community flag was born.
🎨 Flag History and Alterations
Original winning lebian flag (June 2018)
June 2018, original winning flag by @lesbianherstorian with 7 instead of the know 5 stripes. This change was done to simplify the reuse of the flag.
🖌️ Creator
by taqwomen (Tumblr)
📅 Creation date
2018
🎨 Color palette
🏷️ Categories
📌 Keywords
Details
🎨 Color meanings
- darkened red#d52d00
Gender non-conformity
- atomic tangerine (orange)#ff9a56
Community; Independence (especially from men*) meaning the ability to take care of oneself and each other.
- white#FFFFFF
Unique relationship to womanhood; Describes a connection to womanhood to different degrees for different lesbian groups incl. trans, non binary lesbians, butch and femme persons. The big difference to gender non conforming folx is that lesbians in some way have a relation to womanhood, while GNC do not.
- pale violet red (pink)#d362a4
Serenity and Peace; Love and Sex
- dark purple#a31b62
Femininity
🔎 Sources
- 📅 2020-04-02 | sadlesbeandisaster.tumblr.com | Color Meaning of the new lesbian flag
- 📅 2020-04-02 | Official-lesbian-flag Tumblr