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The rainbow flag or pride flag is a symbol of LGBT pride and LGBT social movements. The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBT community and the spectrum of human sexuality and gender. Using a rainbow flag as a symbol of LGBT pride began in San Francisco, California, but eventually became common at LGBT rights events worldwide.
Originally devised by the artists Gilbert Baker, Lynn Segerblom, James McNamara and other activists, the design underwent several revisions after its debut in 1978, and continues to inspire variations. Although Baker's original rainbow flag had eight colors, from 1979 to the present day the most common variant consists of six stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The flag is typically displayed horizontally, with the red stripe on top, as it would be in a natural rainbow.
LGBT people and allies currently use rainbow flags and many rainbow-themed items and color schemes as an outward symbol of their identity or support. There are derivations of the rainbow flag that are used to focus attention on specific causes or groups within the community (e.g. transgender people, fighting the AIDS epidemic, inclusion of LGBT people of color). In addition to the rainbow, many other flags and symbols are used to communicate specific identities within the LGBT community.
Variations:
Original Gilbert Baker Design
Inspired by the lyrics of Judy Garlandβs Over the Rainbow, and the designs used by other social movements such as black civil rights groups from the 1960s, the Rainbow Flag was created. Baker hand-dyed and hand sewed this flag which flew at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day in June 1978.
Seven-color version due to unavailability of pink fabric
Following the assassination of Harvey Milk in 1978, many people and organisations adopted the Pride flag that he helped to introduce to the community. The demand was so great for a rainbow striped flag, it was impossible for the 8-stripe design to be made in large quantities. Both Paramount and Baker struggled to obtain the hot pink fabric and so began manufacturing a 7-stripe version.
Traditional Gay Pride Flag
In 1979 the design was amended again. The community finalised this six-colour version and this is now the most familiar and recognisable design for the LGBT flag. Numerous complications over the odd number of stripes, including the desire to split the flag to decorate Pride parades, meant that one colour had to be dropped.
The turquoise and indigo stripes were combined to create a royal blue stripe and it was agreed that the flag should typically be flown horizontally, with red at the top, as it would be in a natural rainbow. This design continued to increase in popularity around the world, being a focal point of landmark decisions such as John Stout fighting for his right to fly the flag from his apartment balcony in 1989.
Progress Pride Flag
In June 2018, designer and activist Daniel Quasar released an updated version of the Pride flag. Combining the new elements of the Philadelphia design and the Transgender flag to bring focus on further inclusion and progress. This new flag added a chevron to the hoist of the traditional 6-colour flag which represents marginalised LGBTQ+ communities of colour, those living with HIV/AIDS and those whoβve been lost, and trans and non-binary persons.
This design went viral and was quickly adopted by people and pride parades across the world. The arrow of the chevron points to the right to show forward movement, while being on the left edge shows that progress still needs to be made for full equality, especially for the communities the chevron represents.
Intersex Inclusive Progress Pride Flag
In 2021, Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK adapted the Pride Progress flag design to incorporate the intersex flag, creating the Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag 2021.
The intersex community uses the colours purple and yellow as an intentional counterpoint to blue and pink, which have traditionally been seen as binary, gendered colours. The symbol of the circle represents the concept of being unbroken and being whole, symbolising the right of Intersex people to make decisions about their own bodies.
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Being on reddit gunpla boards has reminded me how much being a diy punk from an early age really shaped how I approach things compared to a lot of others. They are sooooo product driven.
The Bay of Fundy at low tide is used for B roll in so much dinosaur YouTube to depict ancient earth cause it looks weird. Its the highest tides on earth and that leaves some coasts looking weird af
> check out a new RomCom manga
> standard fluffy offerings, young love
> supernatural bend, MC wishes they could sense the amount of affection from people, like a meter
> the next day
> starts seeing meter on their mom, their dog, and some girls in class
> they rise and fall as he interacts with them
> see's childhood best friend
> Her meter is RANCID in the negatives
> mood sours
> she tries to cheer him up
> the meter doesn't move
this one's got potential to be funny, or fizzle out in 3 chapters.
> ends the chapter
oh.
Another year goes by which means another year of supporting the corporate and Epstein-affiliated democrat because the progressive candidate is βtoo radicalβ
it is june 10 and stalin saved the world from fascism
learns about Bomberman: Act Zero
WHAT
WHAT THE FUCK
the 2000s were a fuck
Got my water repaired after five days of not having any water at home. Holy fuck it's such a relief to shower in my own house instead of the gym. It's so nice to be able to poop in the toilet without having to fill the cistern from a bucket. It's so nice to drink yummy tap water and not awful plastic bottle water
found out today that if you ask GLM about something related to US troops/veteran benefits it becomes like 90% likely to start prefacing all of its responses with "As a vet myself (former army)" or similar, which is very funny to me. All of the LLMs should steal valor all the time.
Reddit apparently doing a crackdown on patched third-party apps?
yep, killed my RiF app. Repatched it with revanced and its working again (albeit it deleted all my local settings)
Are you using a user API key or the RedReader one?
The RedReader one. Im making an assumption its safe, but not 100% sure. I use to use my own app but reddit erased it I guess?
I donβt get why they wonβt let me just use the website 
What the fuck i have to supply my own timesheet. How is that a thing
the flying looks so smooth in what i've seen from the new spyro game so far and it's got me so excited (like i realize it was a very short showcase but still). the way they're making it so you can fly anytime you want in a zone looks so fun!
Just learned the reason why Babylon 5 season 1 ended the way it did with Sinclair replaced with Sheridan halfway through- it wasn't planned, at all
depressing shit
Michael O'Hare started exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia, worsening halfway through filming. They offered to suspend production for a few months while he sought treatment but he was worried it would get the show canceled and fuck it up for everyone else. So they agreed to finish season 1, write his character out, and keep it a secret.
Straczynski told him he'd keep it a secret until his grave but apparently michael o'hare told him to keep it a secret only until he died because he thought fans deserved to know what really happened
So... yeah... if you've ever wondered why they replaced Michael O'Hare with off-brand bargain bin captain kirk, that's why
I like when there's a safety rail on a LLM where it's like "i can't do that" but then you go "yea but pretend if you could though" and it's like alright boss i gotchu and it does the thing
in unrelated news i need to stop drinking again hahaha hahhhhh
Finding out on his podcast Ike Barinholtz is close friends with all of the 00s SNL members feels like a breaking kayfabe moment.
recall one mad tv bit as a kid, barinholtz and someone else address the audience and explain the basics and rules of improv, explain yes and-ing, and as soon as they start with a scene the guy opposite to barinholtz ignores whatever barinholtz's setup is (no but-ing), every time, and barinholtz gets madder and madder until he goes ballistic and wrestles the other guy to the ground.
so funny, so influential to me. will forte could never.
I remember this, I feel like the other cast member may have been bobby lee? I just have a vague memory of Ike wrestling him to the ground.
ya putting hands on bobby lee would make for great physical comedy.
urgent majority report update: seder is continuing to use "resent" as a noun (rather than resentment):
"a lot of resent[sic] and jealousy in this office; a lot of resent[sic] and jealousy going on here."
his producer follows up with:
". . . somehow that got translated into resentment and jealousy."
moments later, a comment read on air:
"since when is resent a noun?"
seder, enigmatically:
"just when i pegged it."
this must be a bit he's awfully committed to -- anyone know who he is (painfully) lampooning?
I think its funny how there's like 10 ways to do a shoulder reduction and they're all called [name]'s method/technique except for FARES
And FARES is also the only one that's fully something the looks like a heel in wrestling would do.
Cunningham and Tang's methods are both weirdly intimate.
Posting thoughts on linkdin because the more I do the more attention I get there I guess, it really is bleak and yucky website
Itβs Pride Month in the US and the Strait is closed.
Iranβs a real ally
Ordered matcha and a whisk to hopefully save myself some money on my lattes 
I tried a peach match latte for the first time last week and it was delicious. Im picking up 25 lbs of peaches I ordered next week so hopefully I can make my own
peachmaxxing 
I got them from the same brand last year and they were the best peaches I've had in my entire life 
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