Stonetoss comic on the changing pride flag

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[–]Neo_Shadow_Lurker 19 insightful - 11 fun19 insightful - 10 fun20 insightful - 11 fun -  (7 children)

There's something very poetic about the rainbow being pushed out of the flag more and more by each new version...

Oh boy!

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 18 insightful - 5 fun18 insightful - 4 fun19 insightful - 5 fun -  (6 children)

At this point, I treat the original rainbow as representing homo- and bisexuals only. If you do that, its gradual disappearance by being forced into smaller and smaller spaces by other identities becomes a lot meaningful (and a lot closer to what those identities really want).

[–]Danimal4NU 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

The term "queer" is so vague now that some fetishists already claim membership.

[–]meisthebigdumbTransracial BlackX Rockgender Bispecies[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I use it as an insult

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Me too.

[–]UsidedownBW 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It will always be an insult to me. That was one of the biggest, most common insults there were in the 90s. It's not a word that should have been "taken back". It should have been left to die for at least 100 years before any attempt at reviving it. What an awful word.

[–]LyingSpirit472 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Honestly, that's why the secondary rainbow worked. It really showed the point of homo- and bisexuals fighting for their rights, and then queer/trans people showed up using black people as their shield so they could shit all over it.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It represented gay men. Anything else is revisionism.