Gilbert Baker (June 2, 1951 - March 31, 2017) was a gay American artist, designer and activist, best known as the primary creator of the rainbow flag. In 1972 Baker was living in Chicago as an openly gay man, he was taught to sew by a fellow activist, Mary Dunn, using these skills to create banners for gay-rights and anti-war protest marches. It was also during this time that he met and became friends with Harvey Milk, an influential gay leader, who challenged Baker to create a new symbol of pride for the gay community.
The first rainbow flags were produced by a team that included Baker, seamster James McNamara and artist Lynn Segerblom. Segerblom, who was then known as Faerie Argyle Rainbow, reports to have created the original dyeing process for the flags. Thirty volunteers hand-dyed and stitched the first two flags for the parade. These original flags flew at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade celebration on June 25, 1978.
Though many variations have emerged in the decades since, the original design had eight stripes, with a specific meaning assigned to each of the colours: Hot pink for “sex”, red for “life”, orange for “healing”, yellow for “sunlight”, green for “nature”, turquoise for “magic” (though sometimes given as “art”?), indigo for “serenity” and violet for “spirit”.
I’m a little late for pride month, but I got all this done a lot quicker than I expected considering I only started working on it at the beginning of June (though I’ve been planning it on and off for a few years now😅). I did a lot of research and planning for each piece, and there was a lot I wanted to communicate with the project as a whole - it’s been a lot of work, and I challenged myself with a bunch of stuff I’m not familiar with, but I’m really happy with how everything turned out.
Happy pride, everyone, here’s to our community, to all the work that got us here, and to all the progress still to come! 🏳️🌈✨🏳️⚧️
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Planned to post this one on September 9th for Belgrade Pride and totally forgot my bad
Anyway I haven't posted new sapphic sketches in awhile so here are some Serbian girls that are very much in love 🇷🇸❣️
Still kinda on hiatus but I'll probably post more sapphics again eventually !
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hi! this is my first collage in over a month so I'm feeling good about getting back at it!
it's on a 14x18 inch wooden panel that's been varnished. it has a smooth satin finish. I used a poster of a cover of an old lesbian pulp novel, scrapbook paper, smithsonian magazines from the late 80's, acrylic medium as adhesive, and a white paint pen!
if you'd like it, it's on etsy for $225 with free shipping in the US or you can message me about it here and have it for $200 with free shipping in the US! if you're outside the US then I will need to calculate the price for you but I'll discount it by the average price for shipping it within the US.
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lil sneak previews for a zine about trans man sexuality through the lens of robotics. A PDF of all pages is up on my itch.io for £1.50/$1.80.
IDs: a piece of collage art that reads “there is a great love story between a woman and a robot.” with words taken from a book. The next part of the artwork is made from coloured letters taken from magazine covers and reads “bionic parts fuck better”
A cropped part of a collage artwork that depicts a hand with the index finger extended inserting their finger into a circle made my a robotic arm’s fingers. there are blue and white sparks flying behind them, and the human arm has parts of machinery laid over it.
A cropped part of a collage that depicts grey clouds with a winged computer hovering over them. The computer has cut out lines from an advert glued to the screen that read “resurrection! There can be life after death for your corrupt - oops! - corrputed files.” There is text above the computer that reads “When I die I’ll go to the big scrap heap in the sky and hopefully see you there then you can be the only human among robots and I’ll get to decide whether to be gentle or treat you like you treated me.” ED.
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On this final and harrowing day of Pride Month consider shopping small and supporting the LGBTQ+ creators that you love.
Here’s all my current Pride pin designs available in my shop. 🌈
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