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The History of the Bisexual Pride Flag
Biflag.com ^ | June 7, 2002 | Michael Page

Posted on 06/07/2002 4:32:44 AM PDT by H8DEMS

The first Bi Pride Flag was unveiled on Dec 5, 1998. The intent and purpose of the flag is to maximize bisexual pride and visibility. This flag is for free public usage.

As a result of volunteer work I was doing for BiNet USA, it occurred to me that if bi people were going to be visible at home, pride events and political rallies, we needed a Bi Pride Flag!

At that time, there were, in my opinion, no suitable bisexual icons that were colorful or prominent enough to gain instant and long lasting recognition as a flag. At the time, there were bi angles - an inverted double triangle, the bi symbol - a 3 looped symbol, and various shaped symbols created to represent local groups of bi people.

There is no question that bi people have helped foster the gay and lesbian movement we have witnessed since the Stonewall riots of 1969. One problem for bisexuals remains their invisibility. This was also a problem for gays and lesbians prior to 1969 as very few were willing to "come out".

In 1978, Gilbert Baker of San Francisco, who I personally met in Italy at World Pride 2000, created the Rainbow Flag. Each color held it's own meaning and was intended to represent diversity of the gay and lesbian community. The effective mass visibility of this icon is indisputable.

Based on my own personal experience, the vast majority of bi people I have spoken with, feel no connection to the rainbow flag, the pink triangle, the black triangle, the Lambda symbol or the double-edged hatchet. These symbols are viewed as gay and lesbian icons, which was their initial intent. Search the history of the rainbow flag on the Internet and you will see what I mean.

It is my belief that bi people need their own flags and symbols to rally around. I believe GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered) People need to work together, but also need to uphold their own unique component of the GLBT equation.

In designing the Bi Pride Flag, I selected the colors and overlap pattern of the "bi angles" symbol. I selected, which to me, is the most attractive combination of pink, purple and blue. In flag-maker parlance this is magenta - PMS 226 (pink), lavender - PMS 258 (purple) and royal - PMS 286 (blue). I decided to make the top of the flag pink and would give it 40% of the vertical dimension. Purple, which is the resultant color when you overlap pink and blue, would be the middle stripe and would be 20% of the dimension. The lower 40% would be blue.

SYMBOLISM:

The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (gay and lesbian), the blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (straight) and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes (bi). The key to understanding the symbolism in the Bi Pride Flag is to know that the purple pixels of color blend unnoticeably into both the pink and blue, just as in the 'real world' where bi people blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.

The Bi Pride Flag is the only bisexual symbol not patented, trademarked or service marked. Please use the exact PMS colors listed above. If we are going to be effective with this flag, we need to be consistent with our colors. This flag continues to be distributed on a global scale through www.BiPrideStore.com , many leading pride wholesale companies, and many family owned pride stores. In it's short history, the Bi Pride Flag has been visible in many important GLBT events world-wide. A few of these events may be seen above under Bi Events


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Free Republic; Miscellaneous
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To: rabidralph
No, but NAMBLA was. The North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes.

There was a scene with the FBI charging into the room. After Mephisto straightened things out by explaining that the feds were looking for that other NAMBLA, Mr. Garrison said, "Aw, damnit, I'm at the wrong meeting!"
41 posted on 06/07/2002 11:49:49 AM PDT by Dimensio
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To: Dimensio
LOL!
42 posted on 06/07/2002 11:55:58 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: goodnesswins

43 posted on 06/07/2002 12:16:39 PM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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To: Pearls Before Swine
the statuary could be a hardened cement cast of a rectal cavity
45 posted on 06/07/2002 12:31:53 PM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: Emmylou
Done chatting with you - obviously I'm too dumb to make any sense with you....buh bye....
46 posted on 06/07/2002 12:47:57 PM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: goodnesswins
In other words, you're throwing a tantrum because your argument fell apart on even a casual glance and now you're going home.

Bye.
47 posted on 06/07/2002 12:53:16 PM PDT by Dimensio
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To: SkyPilot
Touche Sky, touche.
48 posted on 06/07/2002 12:57:57 PM PDT by rebelsoldier
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To: Dimensio
No....I have better things to do with my life than focus on bi-sex....sheesh.....buh bye to you too....
49 posted on 06/07/2002 1:01:53 PM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: Victoria Delsoul
I saw our US national flag reproduced in the rainbow colors of the militant homosexual agenda, a deliberate desecration of it and an insult to the American people and vetrans who died to preserve its dignity and our republic, not the states of Sodom and Gomorrah. What's next, the Pedophile Flag, the Dog Screwer's Banner, or the Corpse Pounder's Standard? No public venue should be provided at taxpayer's expense for deviant sexual groups anymore than it should be for terrorist enemies of America. Both seek the downfall of this country, only the sickos want to do it from within and with our money.
50 posted on 06/07/2002 1:06:19 PM PDT by rebelsoldier
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To: SkyPilot
That is the most absurd thing I have ever read. If I were you, I would study up on Morality 101 before you give advice again

You should read more carefully and engage brain before typing. He was referring to the definitions, not making a judgement on morality.

51 posted on 06/07/2002 1:07:17 PM PDT by cinFLA
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To: Emmylou
Are you equating homosexulality with drinking? That's a false premis if I ever heard one.
52 posted on 06/07/2002 1:15:23 PM PDT by bribriagain
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To: cinFLA
It doesn't seem to matter to some people. Many months ago there was a thread where NAMBLA and some lawsuit against them was discussed and someone made a misstatement about the public agenda of NAMBLA (as in, what NAMBLA as a group claims to stand for, not necessarily what they really do). I corrected them because the statement was a factual error, and explained what their public agenda really was -- and I noted that I found said public agenda repugnant and devoid of any merit.

I was later branded as a NAMBLA supporter in that discussion, an accusation that was brought up again in another discussion.
53 posted on 06/07/2002 1:16:17 PM PDT by Dimensio
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To: Emmylou
Can I claim moral high ground by pointing out that I don't drink? Does this give me a right to point to alcoholics and drunkards as examples of "typical" members of the drinking community? Please?
55 posted on 06/07/2002 1:24:54 PM PDT by Dimensio
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To: Emmylou
Wanna go out for a drink? Ooops.
56 posted on 06/07/2002 1:31:10 PM PDT by bribriagain
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To: bribriagain
Speaking of which, does anyone have a picture of a turkey baster with a mustache smoking a cigarette?
57 posted on 06/07/2002 1:32:46 PM PDT by bribriagain
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To: Right Wing Professor; skypilot
All these are simply terms for people who are sexually flexible and experimental. A cause needs a name though, in order to cast itself as victimized and in need of a societal category, special rights and protections.
58 posted on 06/07/2002 5:07:05 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun
All these are simply terms for people who are sexually flexible and experimental. A cause needs a name though, in order to cast itself as victimized and in need of a societal category, special rights and protections.

I think you're on to something. However, they all really do fit into one category. Specifically, sexual deviancy.

The human biological machine has an apetite for sex, just like it has an apetite for food. Without those God given apetites, the human race would perish. When the apetite get's screwed up, the machine dies, or dies off. For example, if you get a craving for anti-freeze and you just have to quench it - Well, you will be expiring quite soon. It is a deviency of sorts and not natural. It actually short circuits the whole reason for the apetite for food, to sustain the body.

Sexual deviancy is the same. It short circuits the whole purpose of the sexual apetite to begin with. The purpose is procreation. If God had not designed into men and women a strong desire to do what they do to make babies, man would have long since become extinct. When this desire gets messed up, you end up with people who are attracted to vegetables, animals, their own sex, tailpipes or a miriad of other activities that, no matter how vigorously practiced, cannot possibly conceive another human soul.

Same sex attraction is a deviancy and, yes, it is an apetite that can be aquired. That is why our children must be protected from this form of mental illness and deviant (not to mention physically dangerous) activity.

Calling it immoral and unacceptable is a good start...

59 posted on 06/07/2002 5:25:53 PM PDT by RobRoy
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To: rebelsoldier
Good point. I totally agree with you.
60 posted on 06/07/2002 7:11:27 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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