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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.

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  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    59 minutes ago

    Did a four hour bike ride yesterday, followed by three runs on Nightreign with my Logitech from the second Obama term.

    My wrist is fucked.

  • Blockocheese [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Feeling annoyed at my friend recently and even though my other friends dont know him I dont to talk about him to them because I dont want to be someone who negatively talks about people they’re friends with for reasons that aren’t like objectively bad

    But also know talking to this friend won’t resolve things until they bring it up themselves or get over whatever is making them act like this and keeping it to myself while they act like this is building up my annoyance at them :/

    None of the options feel good so here I am posting anonymously about it

  • tocopherol [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Children truly are the greatest badposters, I just overheard while walking about

    juvenile humor

    A young kid was with his family, he says to his mom “I made a new song based on Old McDonald, do you want to hear it?” “Oh sure” he sings the classic melody: “Old MacDonald had a fart, yum yum yum yum yummm!”

  • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    When I was in college I could barely read fiction. It took me about a year and a half to read the Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers

    Over the past few days I finished the Two Towers, started and finished the Return of the King. I read most of the Return of the King today, about 300 pages. It feels so, so amazing to have my attention span back and being able to read again

    Also the scouring of the shire is a weird chapter right? Like I’m not alone in thinking that it’s a weird final quest after the story has ended?