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Is this a thing here..alternative to rainbow gear?
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05-09-2010 10:25pm#1
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Purple is the colour used by Bisexual people to mark themselves out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_symbols#Bisexuality_symbols_.E2.80.93_flag.2C_triangles.2C_and_moons
The hanky code is still practice in some bars in the usa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code
A blue star tattoo has been used by many lesbian women in the last decade, usually on the forearm where it can be hidden for work or wearing a thumb ring on the right hand is another.0 -
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you can't go wrong with sparkles. k...how about a banner that spells out lgbt in bold black lettering on white background, with sparkles.
or just rob something from the internets.
I missed my calling, srsly.
A lot of first year students might not know what LGBT means!!It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
Terry Pratchet
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http://www.swade.net/gallery/symbols.html
I also like the rhino
Gay activists in Boston chose the purple rhinoceros as a symbol of the gay movement after conducting a media campaign for this purpose (1974), selecting this animal because, although it is sometimes misunderstood, it is really both docile and intelligent – but when a rhinoceros is angered, it fights ferociously. Lavender was used because it was a widely recognized gay pride color and the heart was added to represent love and the "common humanity of all people."
And it's copywrite free.
Or there is Lamda
One symbol which continues to remain popular is the lower case Greek letter lambda. The symbol was originally chosen by the Gay Activists Alliance of New York in 1970. The GAA was a group which broke away from the larger Gay Liberation Front at the end of 1969, only six months after its foundation in response to the Stonewall Riots. While the GLF wanted to work side by side with the black and women's liberation movements to gain unity and acceptance, the GAA wanted to focus their efforts more concisely on only Gay and Lesbian issues.
Because of its official adoption by the GAA, which sponsored public events for the gay community, the lambda soon became a quick way for the members of the gay community to identify each other. The reasoning was that the lambda would easily be mistaken for a college fraternity symbol and ignored by the majority of the population. Eventually, though, the GAA headquarters was torched by an arsonist, destroying not only the building but all of the organization's records, and the movement never recovered from the loss. The symbol, however, lived on.
What the symbol means, or meant when it was introduced, has been topic for speculation and a number of rumors. Some of the more popular speculations are:
* Simply, the Greek letter "L" stands for "liberation."
* The Greek Spartans believed that the lambda represented unity.
* The Romans took it as meaning "the light of knowledge shining into the darkness of ignorance."
* The charged energy of the gay movement. This stems from the lambda's use in chemistry and physics to denote energy in equations.
* The synergy which results when gays and lesbians work together towards a common goal (a gestalt theory which also stems from the physics-energy theory)
* The notion that straights and gays, or gays and lesbians, or any pairing of these three, are on different wavelengths when it comes to sex, sexuality, or even brain patterns. This again comes from the lambda's presence in chemistry and physics, where it is sometimes used to represent the wavelength of certain types of energy.
* An iconic rendering of the scales of justice and the constant force that keeps opposing sides from overcoming each other. The hook at the bottom of the right leg would then signify the action and initiative needed to reach and maintain balance.
* The lambda is also thought by some to have appeared on the shields of Spartan and/or Theban warriors. The Thebes version is more popular because, as legend has it, the city- state organized the Sacred Band of Thebes from groups of idealized lovers, which made them extremely fierce and dedicated warriors. Eventually however, the army was completely decimated by King Philip II, but was later honored by his son Alexander the Great.
The lambda was associated with the Spartans because they were also known as the Lacedaemonians.[4] There is a 1962 Hollywood film called The 300 Spartans starring Diane Baker, Richard Egan, and Ralph Richardson that showed Spartan warriors who appeared to have lambdas on their shields.
Even though at one time it acquired a strictly male connotation,[citation needed] it is used by both gays and lesbians today. Back in December 1974, the lambda was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the International Gay Rights Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland.[5] Also, the lambda is said to signify unity under oppression.[5] The gay rights organization Lambda Legal and the American Lambda Literary Award derive their names from this symbol.0 -
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I don't think it would work. The only time I've seen lamda in real life is in Physics. If I glanced at it I'd assume it was a mathsy/physicsy stall.0 -
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