Hmm… since its important to have pride in being gay, its important to know what our gay pride flag stands for :)
Hot Pink stands for sexuality
Red stands for life
Orange stands for healing
Yellow stands for sunlight
Green stands for nature
Turquoise stands for magic and arts
Indigo stands for serenity and harmony
Violet stands for spirit
The flag was originally invented by Gilbert Baker, the flag was first used in the 1978 gay pride march in San Francisco. However the eight coloured flag was soon reduced to a seven coloured one with the Hot Pink removed. This was because at the time, hot pink wasn’t a commercially available colour, and so to mass produce the pride flag, the hot pink had to be officially removed.
In 1979 a year later, indigo was removed from the seven coloured pride flag and then there were six. This was done so that during that years pride march, the colours could be equally divided on the marching street.
Whats the reason behind all this pride? Well I recently watched a recorded version of the 60th anniversary for china… apparently my parents thought it was good for Chinese all over the world to take pride in china’s achievement so far. And while watching the anniversary at Tien-An-Men Square… I was utterly shocked when I saw the pride flag embedded in the marching colours of the Chinese anniversary ceremony. Maybe China is more open than we think, and we should give them more credit.
I assure you that none of these pictures have been doctored in any way whatsoever. They are as seen on the recording I saw. Amazing right?
Signing out.
Oh...i didnt knew abt the meaning behind those colors either. Haha...I wonder why they always associate rainbow to gays hor.Maybe the color is too flamboyant @ sissy which they assume suits well with people like us? =)
ReplyDeleteWell, the Chinese history have quite a few homosexuality-themed art, so I'm guessing it was somewhat accepted back then. Just that we're still a conservative race and don't talk much about it.
ReplyDeletesimon, i dont know why they associate rainbows to us... maybe coz we always have a pot of gold at out ends :P
ReplyDeletehmm evann, im actually not too familiar with chinese historical homosexuals... im sure there was homosexuality back then... but... is it documented in anyway at all?