Gay gender sign
EIU Center For Gender and Sexual Diversity
Symbols within the GSD Community
Rainbow Flag
The rainbow flag has grow the easily-recognized colors of pride for the gay people. The rainbow plays a part in many myths and stories related to gender and sexuality issues in Greek, Aboriginal, African, and other cultures. Exploit of the rainbow flag by the gay community began in when it first appeared in the San Francisco Gay and Female homosexual Freedom Day Celebration. Borrowing symbolism from the hippie movement and black civil rights groups, San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag in response to a need for a symbol that could be used year after year. The flag has six stripes, each hue representing a component of the community: red for existence, orange for healing, yellow for daystar, green for innateness, royal blue for harmony, and violet for spirit.
The rainbow flag has inspired a wide variety of related symbols and accessories, such as freedom rings. There are plenty of variations of the flag, including versions with superimposed lambdas, pink triangles, or other symbols. Some r
LGBTQ+ Terms
The following is a list of LGBTQ+ inclusive terms.
A
Agender
A person who identifies as having no gender.
Ally
A non-LGBTQ person wo shows support for LGBTQ people and advocates for equality in a variety of ways.
Androgyne/androgynous
Identifying and/or presenting as neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine.
Asexual
A person who experiences little or no sexual attraction to others. Asexuality is not the similar as celibacy.
Assigned Sex at Birth
The sex (male or female) assigned to a child at birth, most often based on the child’s external anatomy. Commonly referred to as birth sex, natal sex, organic sex, or sex.
B
Biphobia
The dread or hatred of and discrimination against bisexuals. Biphobia is different from homophobia or transphobia in that is seen within the LGBT community as skillfully as in general society.
Bisexual
A person emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to more than one sex, gender or gender identity though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way or to the same degree.
C
LGBT Symbols
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans person, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, and Ally (sometimes also Asexual)
Rainbow Flag
Use of the rainbow colored flag to symbolize identity festival goes back to at a San Francisco Lgbtq+ and Lesbian Freedom Morning Parade. Designed by Gilbert Baker, the colors in the flag represent the diversity of the group and have come to represent LGBTQIA pride everywhere in the world it is displayed.
Inverted Triangles
Use of inverted triangles as a symbol of gay celebration began to be widespread in the early s Gay Liberation Movement. It was adopted to recall that homosexuals were forced to wear a pink triangle in the Nazi Concentration Camps of Planet War II. Since the pink triangle has been generally a gay male symbol, a pink triangle in a black circle, or simply a jet triangle, is sometimes used by lesbians.
Lambda
Lambda, the Greek letter “L”, has been used since the promptly s to denote LGBTQ pride, possibly because “L” stand for Liberation. Some people think It may also refer to queer love in ancient Greek culture.
Labrys
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The LGBTQI+ community has created their own language of colours and symbols. In this guest blog Gillian Murphy, Curator for Equality, Rights and Citizenship at LSE Library, explores the symbols created through activism, logo competitions, resistance, and community. LGBT+ History Month is celebrated each February in the UK.
LGBTQI+ symbols and their meanings
“Well, of course, a symbol can mean anything you need it to mean.” Come Together, Issue 12,
The use of symbols and colours is an important way for groups to convey messages, communicate with others, and to build a visual identity. During the s, LGBTQI+ people were encouraged to enter out and, in doing this, they often wore badges with distinctive symbols, reinforcing the doctrine that no longer would they be invisible. This blog looks at some of the symbols that can be found in LGBTQI+ collections.
The gender symbols for male and female are traditionally derived from astrological signs and mythological meanings representing Mars (god of war with shield and spear) and Venus (mirror of Venus, goddess of affectionate and beauty)