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i just came across this article about the lesbian flag. it points out the person that originally conceived the lipstick lesbian flag that we use today (sans lipstick mark) was actually racist, biphobic and transphobic

in the past we already had issues with the flag for not being a good representation of the community as a whole, and that was just the colors, just the idea that it wasn’t made with the whole community in mind so this new information is even worse. the very person that created this flag is everything we’re not supposed to be. this needs to be addressed. this blows. i don’t want a person like this deciding how we define and represent our community wtf 

Wtf seriously??? That fucking sucks ass

Please reblog

This article makes a pretty damn good case for a new flag that’s not even a LITTLE BIT even AESTHETICALLY related to the lesbian flag, but keeps with the “stripes of color” thing most people seem to prefer (since while I love the labrys flag, I know it’s contentious and I’ll admit I wish it’d been designed by an actual lesbian instead of a supportive gay man).  

And the colors are inspired by a Sappho poem, y’all, i can’t even.  

[Image is of a flag with four equally sized horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: purple, gold, green, and pink]

I have not had one word from her

Frankly I wish I were dead
When she left, she wept
a great deal; she said to me, “This parting must be
endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly.”

I said, “Go, and be happy
but remember (you know
well) whom you leave shackled by love

“If you forget me, think
of our gifts to Aphrodite
and all the loveliness that we shared

“all the violet tiaras,
braided rosebuds, dill and
crocus twined around your young neck

“myrrh poured on your head
and on soft mats girls with
all that they most wished for beside them

“while no voices chanted
choruses without ours,
no woodlot bloomed in spring without song…”

—Sappho, translated by Mary Barnard

here’s the flag w/ the meanings! 

(Source: liepard, via sullythecrimsoncavalier)