The trans flag was created by Monica Helms all the way back in 1999, and features an iconic pastel blue and pink colorway, instantly recognizable when incorporated into any design. Transgender FlagĢ021 has been off to a horrifying start for the rights of trans people in the US, so this Pride is the stage for an especially defiant stand against the record number of anti-trans bills going through state legislatures this year. With the additional Black & Brown stripes, as well as the colors of the transgender flag, this flag draws attention to to interconnected struggles of all LGBTQIA+ identities and BIPOC.
Progress RainbowĪll aspects of identity intersect with one another both individually and politically, as acknowledged in Daniel Quasar's Progress flag, a redesign of the 6-stripe rainbow. It’s meant to be all-inclusive, but all identities deserve to be recognized on their own – each of the other flags below is just as important as the rainbow. Now, you’re most likely to see a simplified 6-stripe version emblazoned on any and all Pride-themed designs. The original rainbow that Harvey Milk commissioned from Gilbert Baker in 1977 had 8 stripes, then it was updated later with only 7.
NOTE: Use the Kapwing Studio to use precise hex codes in your own designs or identify the colors of a Pride flag not included in this list. There are too many identity groups to catalogue comprehensively, but I’ll provide 15 commonly used Pride flags with their precise color hex codes, so you can implement the exact hues in your Pride designs and graphics. All LGBTQIA+ people have always been part of the Pride struggle, and many are just now being recognized as belonging to historic liberation movements.įor every group celebrated in Pride, there is a distinctive flag (or sometimes several!) to represent them, with its own colors, style, and design. The message and impact of Pride has only grown more affirmative, more radical, and more powerful as more and more marginalized and subjugated identities have been acknowledged in its ranks. I'll go over the exact colors for 15 different flags. See Ashbie Moon.For every group celebrated in Pride, there is a flag to represent it, with its own distinctive colors. Many copypastas would change up the design of the Enbie character entirely, and, eventually, one particular variant became her own character. Finally, the pink-haired woman in the aforementioned picture became the subject of multiple fan arts. Furthermore, the term "truscum idiot" became a recurrent ironic insult.
Additionally, sometimes the phrase "cute and valid" would be replaced with something which rhymes or resembles it in alliteration. Later permutations would involve substituting different groups being "cute and valid" or different people being asked about them, or linking the picture of a strawman person to associate a group with them. On August 9th, one such post featured the 3D rendering of a goth woman with pink hair as an attached picture. In August 2020, this sentence started being used as a snowclone on various 4chan threads. The "cute and valid" comment came after several weeks of the term "truscum" being discussed on boards like /pol/ and /lgbt/. On July 18th, 2020, an anonymous 4chan user tried to derail a /s4s/ thread about monkeys by posting the question about enbies : hey truscum idiots if enbies don't exist why are they so heckin cute and valid? įrom 2017 to 2019 particularly, it began to catch on in the LGBT community for gender-nonconforming people, such as transgender and non-binary individuals, appearing multiple times in online LGBTQ+ communities such as /r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns It was also used on November 12th, 2015 by the artist Rebecca Bronson in a Vice interview. One of the oldest recorded occurrences of this expression was used in a June 2012 a reblog of a Tumblr post by openmindcollective which featured a wholesome scene of a kid reacting to a gay couple (shown below). Although it can be and has been used in other contexts, it is mainly used in messages supporting LGBT+ people. The expression "cute and valid" is meant to both brighten the targeted people's mind by complimenting them, and to express acceptance towards their gender or sexual identity. The image was generated via LGBT Friendly Icon Creator created by finndraws. On October 30th, 2019, Redditor snowypig posted the image of the pink-haired enbie saying the phrase in /r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, gaining over 10,000 points (shown below).