The queer community deserves a better flag. The rainbow was great and made sense - the whole spectrum of the rainbow; everybody. Now it’s just displeasing to look at with clashing colors. Maybe a vexillologist can chime in to put that into better words.
This is not a critique of people, just my opinion of this flag.
Many dislike queer because it is a slur, in recent years though it is being reclaimed more and more by the community.
I remember even just a few years ago you could tell just how politically motivated someone was by weather they identified as “queer” or one of the many individual flavors of the rainbow (lesbian, gay, etc)
Used the expanded version, which means it has more countries than the version in the post. It was made before Brexit and before the accession of Croatia and Romania, though
Maybe we should sort the colors, so it looks like this:
The queer community deserves a better flag. The rainbow was great and made sense - the whole spectrum of the rainbow; everybody. Now it’s just displeasing to look at with clashing colors. Maybe a vexillologist can chime in to put that into better words.
This is not a critique of people, just my opinion of this flag.
“The queer community”
In fact what was wrong with queer vs an ever-changing acronym? Or could we just use rainbow?
I really like saying LGBTQ in a French way, though.
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Many dislike queer because it is a slur, in recent years though it is being reclaimed more and more by the community.
I remember even just a few years ago you could tell just how politically motivated someone was by weather they identified as “queer” or one of the many individual flavors of the rainbow (lesbian, gay, etc)
It was a slur, then it was reclaimed but now it has fallen into disuse because of the acronym so it may have already slipped back into being a slur.
Which was more politically motivated? Queer or the individual favours?
Queer was more politically motivated in my experience.
I dunno man, I really like the flag. Like you I dont have a good reason for why either, and thats fine, tastes are different.
Used the expanded version, which means it has more countries than the version in the post. It was made before Brexit and before the accession of Croatia and Romania, though
Also, a version rotated to match other pride flags so that this, uhh… not-a-flag can look slightly more like the flag we’re vaguely imitating here
Neat, thanks. That works even better than I expected. 🙃
I’d vote for that. 😋