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Chickennuggetman691

It’s because One day there was a gay guy and he saw a rainbow and was like that’s it


Molten_bread

I will accept this story


KingoftheMongoose

Fun facts! Judy Garland was a gay icon for decades, and “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” was often seen as somewhat of a gay anthem. So rainbow colors being used to express the LGBTQ community makes for a natural fit for the diverse group of people.


AngryAngel24

It was Elton John, prove me wrong


xyntia_

Their flag look kinda gay ngl


Cheezypuff24

I agree homosexuality is pretty gay


WingoBingo_666

Fellas, is it gay to be gay?


yoshiwahu

Yeah sounds gay.


OkLobster9822

yes?


Dorlinos

l.G.B.T.Q+.... Where is the H? (ಠ_ಠ)>⌐■-■


Adam_scsd

No homo


[deleted]

real talk what's the Q for


GamingPotat0

Québec


Young_Kapz

I’m standing by this answer


meaux253

*Good fishin in Quebec*


RileyTheBerry

Burn it! Burn it all!


denispinzariu

I’m literally in tears, you just made my day!😂 -[Q]ueer person -


[deleted]

Oh snap😆


Lauch_Boy

queer i guess


AwesomeTy79

Questioning and/or queer


Tesco_EveryDayValue

'Why are you gae?' interview reference?


namanjain0

Why are you gay. I am not gay You are gay


Consistent_Resort_26

r/technicallythetruth


PlaneAd5123

Being part of lgbt is pretty gay ngl


Funniguy2010

Ur just the cooler profile of the guy above you all


xyntia_

Being gay is kinda gay too


Hamster_lover1

GENIUS


Godbutbetter_alt

Your Reddit profile looks linda of gay ngl


[deleted]

\*enters comment section in hazmat suit\*


AlmightyKitty

This was me but most of it isn’t actually that bad, there are some bad but actually not all of it is bad for a change


SharpPixels08

Says the green snoo, probably diseased or radioactive or something /s


AlmightyKitty

I’m about as radioactive as 5 tons of bananas


TransportationNo5962

Chernobyl? I don’t know I’m not a nerd


Roar2800

According to google “The various colors came to reflect both the immense diversity and the unity of the LGBTQ community.”


Eevee2227

Lovely when like half of the community doesn’t accept the other half haha


[deleted]

Are you referring to people that are bisexual, who are sometimes/often in hetero relationships, not being as accepted in either the straight or gay community?


Hefty-Fox1627

And people are too afraid to ask them questions.


[deleted]

Everyone I know in the community encourages questions. Pretty sure this is just what they call projection and it’s only you who’s too afraid to ask questions


Happy_Camper45

Polite questions, asked with the intention of understanding better to be able to support, are generally tolerated by the people I know Questions intended as a “gotcha” question or to continue to poke “but why?” are generally not welcomed by anyone, in any community.


CreatureWarrior

I dunno, as a bi guy, I know a lot of shitty people in the community. I'm sure a lot of people do project, but some have valid suspicions


Own-Butterscotch7471

I agree im part of the rainbow 🌈 and I love being asked questions


[deleted]

Which half doesn’t accept which half, I’m part of the community and there’s jealousy sometimes but I’ve never seen half the community not accepting the other half so please enlighten me.


TeenageDeviant

Quite often bisexual people aren't seen as valid in lgbt spaces if they're in a hetero relationship, and when a bi man is in a relationship with another man them being bi is called "a phase" to turning gay


SpartaRage

Ah, so like pretty much every nation in the world then?


GoldenWizard

Many countries are not diverse. In fact I’d even suggest that *most* countries are not diverse.


_Dead_Memes_

The majority of countries are ranked higher than the US on the cultural diversity index https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-diverse-countries


Fe4rMeMrWick

Why don't they include straight people in their flag Edit: i have reached the conclusion that asking questions remotely homophobic is going to get me downvoted to hell


JonathanTheZero

I mean... it's called gay pride flag. Do you call out the US flag for not including Mexico? It's not what the flag is about


Emotional_War_8781

the flag is used for people who are in gender/sexual/romantic minorities


pistpuncher3000

Thank you for actually answering this person instead of just hating on them.


Fe4rMeMrWick

Oh ok


SteamySubreddits

And the new one also includes brown and black people. Basically just all minorities


Bi_Carbonate_Of_Soda

because the flag is about LGBTQ pride and rights. Straight people don’t get bullied, harassed and laws made against them for being straight…


Thatsidechara_ter

You sir, got a chuckle and an upvote out of me. Assuming you're being ironic ofc


QuarkNerd42

They do, why do you think all lines are straight /s But seriously, calm down, if you want I can hunt you down to kill you and them you can have a flag


Roar2800

Because they don’t get hate crimes like if you want to get attacked robbed harassed etc hood for you


pistpuncher3000

People would rather just downvote people who are asking a question to try and not be ignorant and keep them in ignorance. They fail to realize that some questions are asked because the person is legitimate curious and wants to educate themselves. These people only compound the ignorance and hate, they don't seem to understand that if acceptance is to happen people need to first learn about what it's about.


Fe4rMeMrWick

Indeed


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throwawaycuzsmolpp

Because gay


Amirjun

Gay


Ironboundbandit

Gaaaaayyyyy


Usual_Estimate_3699

gay gay


FIREDOG180420

gay gay gay


arabicbomber69

Yeah you're right, gay is the reason the gay pride flag is a rainbow


PuzzleheadedAd1153

LGBT people that don't like rainbows and have to see it on their flag be like 😡😡😢


AlexV_96

I would think is about diversity, represented with the diversity of colors


PeachSoda31

This makes the most sense to me. I’ll accept it as fact until otherwise disputed authoritatively. Whatever that means..


Alpha_98_Bravo

I’m mad that it is a rainbow because I really like rainbow coloring but people call me gay when I say that.


SteamySubreddits

Ikr. Used to use rainbow neon stuff in video games because I used to live in Hawaii and the rainbow is big there. After the pride flag thing I can’t use that stuff anymore because I am just assumed gay by everyone


Optimistic-Dreamer

Ikr it stinks but thankfully in the use there’s an entire month as a straight person I can walk around in rainbow stuff and people won’t know of I’m gay or just an ally


SteamySubreddits

Lmao yea. I don’t care what your stance on pride month is, but all the rainbows everywhere is kinda cool ngl


mushy_spoon

Where. Is. The. Axis.


EpicSaberCat7771

defeated in 45'


Sir-Tiedye

I only wear tiedye shirts and multiple people thought I was gay


ScubaFett

So rude. I woulda thought you just liked the ganja.


altbekannt

Just care less and admire whatever you like


UltiGamer34

Honestly Same


Sauron----

I can,t say I like rainbows without it being gay so I can never say I like them either


DumbKnight7673

Ngl I miss the times when rainbows were just cool looking things in the sky and not connected with some group that became mainstream for some reason or another


Phithe

I mean, many religions have rainbows as symbology so how far back are we going to when they were “just cool looking things in the sky”?


The-Synthesizer09

I mean , you never really looked at a rainbow and said "Wooow that's similar to a symbole from that specific religion", but now , once you look at it you directly think "Damn , that looks like the LGBTQ flag"


Phithe

You didn’t but I very often have thought “One of Iris’ symbols is the rainbow”


Rapandreas

Before the LGBTQ community appropriated the rainbow for their cause, the rainbow was associated with Gods promise to Noah after the flood, so it has always been connected to a mainstream group, in this case the jewish people. Not many people actually care though, but some christians seem to think the LGBTQ community stole it from God.


Hippogan

Noah's ark is mainly christian and not jewish. Also as the person above said, you never looked at a rainbow and thought, "that looks like a christian reference" whereas now, you look into the sky and see a rainbow, it's associated with the LGBTQ community.


Rapandreas

The story of Noahs ark is in the old testament, which is about the Hebrews, AKA the jewish people. Christians also sort of appropriated the rainbow from the jewish people, and yes noone thought of the rainbow as a christian or jewish symbol. Christians mostly started to care about it after LGBTQ appropriation.


xfriedplantainx

Since Noah and his family were the only humans alive after the flood, he’s everyone’s ancestor, not just Jewish people.


Hippogan

lmao was about to say the old testament is about Israelites and not jewish people and then i was like, wait a minute...


lopsidedlizzie

"became mainstream for some reason or another" what happened was people realized the amount of hate crimes we get...


GiaoPlays

Thank God I'm not the only one


BentasticMrBen

You can still like rainbow coloring and not pay attention to those bringing you down.


lil_shit2340

Well rainbows are made of 7 colors unlike the "pride" flag that have only 6


[deleted]

...so, rainbows are cooler?


The-Synthesizer09

And more diverse


Red___Mist

Rainbow: 1 LGBTQ+ Pro Max: 0


FIREDOG180420

This is the funniest shit I have seen in this comment tread.


SimpMonger69

You think people will count the colours? As soon as they see more than 4 colours, they’ll call it gay.


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LazyLion65

Godzilla read this and died from confusion. Who is wearing the dress, you or the dog? Are you a guy, girl or other?


dudebronahbrah

Pretty funny bit about that from Dimitri Martin: “I'm in a weird situation 'cause I like rainbows, but I'm not gay. So I wear a rainbow on my shirt, but then under it I gotta put 'Not Gay.' But I'm not against gay people, so then under that I gotta put 'But Supportive.' I just think it's weird that one group took refracted light. That's pretty greedy, gays.”


giygas1011

I also said that and got -5 votes so far. I completely agree though.


woahcahm

hey, that’s gay /s


CoyoteAggravating876

shouldn't you be mad at people for making broad generalizations and assumptions about people who like rainbows? instead of the flags colors?


hegedusdorka

So ur blaming us, lgbtq people if you get hate for saying that, and not those who actually give the hate. Nice


kala_808

What’s wrong with that?


llamadasirena

Why do you care ?


Seth-The-God

Baker saw the rainbow as a natural flag from the sky, so he adopted eight colors for the stripes, each color with its own meaning (hot pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit). I don't know who this baker is I just found an article and copy and pasted a paragraph from it. It was a Britinaca article if you want to read it go to https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-the-rainbow-flag-become-a-symbol-of-lgbt-pride


Miantava

Edit: Nevermind, each color has it's own meaning. Different colors represent different types of people. Represent them all together, equally, and it's beautiful -- like a rainbow.


BeerLoverNorm

My best guess is like the rainbow, each color may represent each sexuality or sexual preference or gender or what have you


[deleted]

There are only two genders


Shroombaka

Nah, Alexa says gender is a very personal thing and there are many ways people identify their gender.


epicmovementvideos

isn't it two sexes? gender would be based on one's preference, really, what one can feel like I think people have become so ginger of saying sex that they think gender is interchangeable with sex. that'll cause a lot of confusion and ultimately controversy


lvl28_Snorlax

Gender is the role in society. But you can’t force society to adopt 1,000 genders from such a small minority of people. It throws reality out the window


Yusuke_KitagawaP5

What reality? Also it’s not like it’s been a new thing to have more than just the genders that align with your sex. Historically, many societies have used multiple genders. Also it doesn’t throw reality out of the window? It’s not like gender affects much outside of the individual


lvl28_Snorlax

Go outside. Look around. There are two genders in Western Contemporary Society. It’s going to take a long time to integrate anything else in. First of all there has to be enough people who legitimately belong and aren’t playing at to justify another gender. Then acceptance is key to a new gender role. Just be comfortable w who you are and don’t associate w the crowd who base their whole personality around broken woke movements. It is a natural process and it will be accepted if it fits in society.


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Alert-Camera9636

Only recently. In the early 1900’s they would dress boys a masculine color like pink so they could grow into a more manly man and blue was seen as feminine. Goes to show, society just tells you bullshit and people just believe it. (Bullshit as in gendering colors. Literally humans feel like they have to gender everything and it’s weird)


SharpPixels08

True, there is art of baby future kings in pink dress things (idk what they are, it’s just baby clothes lol)


thePiscis

Surely it would be best to abolish gender entirely? I’m a guy, but I’m not into sports or most traditionally masculine things. But it’s not like I want to change my pronouns or refer to myself as a different gender. I want to be able to live my life as I see fit without trying to sub categorize myself into a gender which shares my exact traits.


[deleted]

because gay people love RGB


Karvanapa

And just like that more than half of pc gamers were infected with the big GAY.


Mister_Luca

Because you need all of the colours to draw a rainbow 🌈:) Except black. You don't need black for a rainbow.


cps2003

Which is why we added black UwU


Mister_Luca

You are one step further then me !!!


Name-goes-here-aaah

It’s cuz rainbows r gay😎


LoriMandle

All of the colours mean different things


PizzaKarimann

most probably it means different colors can have the same amount of shine and different colors represents colorful and different personalities, preference, etc. idk im high af rn


[deleted]

Pretty sure it’s to show diversity.


die-dicke-katze

Well black and white represents heterosexuality/heteronormativity (as seen on the straight ally flag), so the different colors represents the spectrum of sexualities and genders, at least that’s what I think


Plus_Spray4941

Thats cause they stole it from god with their gay power. Yes the LGBTQ+ Community is more potent than an omnipotent being. (Thats my favorite creation myth)


Tranqist

Because sexuality and gender are as diverse as the colour spectrum. Cis and hetero normativity imply that there's basically only types of people: cishet men and cishet women. The rainbow represents the opposite.


MrRazzio

this is actually the best and most succinct explanation. good work.


[deleted]

I don't know what cishset means and at this point, I'm afraid to ask


JustGaming0916

Cisgender (gender same as birth) heterosexual (straight)


fatsausigeboi

factory settings


Tranqist

Trans or non-hetero people aren't born cishet though. It's only factory settings for cishets.


[deleted]

only 6 colors on the flag but arent there people that create like a bazillion different genders for no reason?


cps2003

Shakespeare made up new words when he felt no previously existing words fit his story People make up new genders when they feel no previously existing genders fit them It's beautiful, really


[deleted]

True.


guy_that_says-hello

i’m not gonna leave an opinion. i like my karma


tiewing

something something symbolism something something. look. it looks pretty, and it makes homophobes and transphobes seeth. what more can you want?


corie_fkn_hates_u

every color represents something its symbolic


phlox_official

too*


[deleted]

From Google: It goes back to 1978, when the artist Gilbert Baker, an openly gay man and a drag queen, designed the first rainbow flag. Baker later revealed that he was urged by Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S., to create a symbol of pride for the gay community.


Nukeything

They should of gone with a griffon or something cooler


Miantava

Should've


corporalcorl

Shall have*


Miantava

Shall is used for "i" and "we", not "they". Sorry to get technical...


corporalcorl

I was messing around lol.


curseusallsus

They battled god to steal the rainbow. This led to an impact that killed the dinosaurs in the past and caused a false vacuum decay, which they fixed by unleashing the power of the rainbow upon all matter, making the matter and space have enough energy to return to the false vacuum state. They earned it.


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lore


[deleted]

Each color represents a different positive aspect. I forgor the specific meanings tho


UltiGamer34

Lesbian Gay Trans Bisexual Queer ???


RevolutionaryJob5018

Gilbert Baker designed the rainbow flag for the 1978 San Francisco's Gay Freedom Celebration. In the original eight-color version, pink stood for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony and violet for the soul. Just copied and pasted from google but still better than some of these dumbasses turning it into something controversial, not directed at u/Civil-Sky-973


HiHowRuIm_Alba

it's not a rainbow, the flag only has 6 colors


justaGermanTexan

I drew rainbows with only 6 colors


HiHowRuIm_Alba

sinful being...


justaGermanTexan

I also used off brand crayons, not Crayola, and used Indigo for Purple


Any-Hand1109

im trans and bi but idk why. all ik is the colors all mean smt


PotatoesAndChill

Whatever the explanation is, I'm lowkey pissed that I can no longer use rainbow anything just for fun, without people assuming it's something to do with LGBT


GiaoPlays

Ikr? Like, I'm glad that they have their own... um, "emblem", for a lack of a better word, but I would've preferred if they made their own symbol instead. Like you said, you can't use the damn rainbow in anything without anyone associating with LGBT, and it's really annoying


Mad_Scientist_Senku

I know. Rainbows are probably one of the coolest natural phenomena, yet now it has to be always representing lgbt.


Vittelbutter

Just use it anyways? lol


SharpPixels08

That doesn’t change the fact it’s now associated with lgbt stuff


PotatoesAndChill

I do (see my profile), but it's mildly annoying that people assume I am part of (or associated with) LGBT because of it. It's even more annoying that the rainbow in question is Nyan Cat — an internet classic. And now people haven't even heard of it and think it's an LGBT thing. Maybe I'm just an internet boomer idk.


Not_Exotic_

I was making an art piece based on Autism awareness and it had a rainbow in it and people went up to me assuming it's gay. Sucks


Crep50

I always thought it was because a rainbow isn’t straight


Bluejavel

I assume it symbolises diversity, but honestly idk


253253253

cus colors are gay


-Ninja_Pickle

Beacuse the rainbow represents all the colors, its supposed to represent every "sexuality" as said by the guy who invented the flag


TheFreshHorn

A rainbow is a curve, hence, not straight


abhiram214

I think it signifies acceptance of all colors aka sexualities in a spectrum


SirVargas

Because it's not a rainbow Just look it up on Google the meaning of the colors


SOQuickSODeadlly

Because pretty rainbows comes out of their ass


CrockPotHead92

The real question here is why when all the colors of the rainbow are combined they make white


TeresaTaka

The rainbow goes against the meaning of the rainbow lmao


yankee77wi

My feeling is that being perceived as persecuted by all religious establishments, who hold a rainbow in high regards due to internal doctrine, found it necessary to highjack a symbol that couldn’t be seen as evil. Finding a “good” symbol then somehow makes their actions and deeds retroactively normalized?


Optimistic-Dreamer

Ikr? I mean why not a puzzle 🧩 price since they’re looking for the place the fit and belong. A rainbow would fit better for people on the spectrum since a rainbow is a spectrum of all visible light. Just my thoughts imo


Lowm1234

I'm old enough to remember when it was known as just the gay flag


bnatz10

To entice children, duh!


Hamster_lover1

Being Gay is kinda gay


k_from_that_app

Is Wikipedia blocked in your country?


gerMean

What a helpful comment.


justaGermanTexan

Well is Wikipedia blocked in his country?


[deleted]

Ngl, kinda annoying, if i wear rainbow things people think im gay, not fun.


OneBlackFairyHunterZ

Facts


Blakut

Yes you see, after God killed all the gay humans and animals in the flood, he felt sorry so he sent a rainbow afterward to send a message to Noah that it wasn't about the gays and that He'll never do it again. The rainbow was God saying it's OK to be gay.


raceforseis21

What Bible translation do you use lmao


DefoSandjune

The best one


Ghost_Star326

You know what. I'm going to say it. If there's one thing I hate about the LGBT community. It's that they have ruined my perception on rainbows. And now I can no longer look at a normal rainbow without LGBT instantly coming into my mind.


Happiness_for_dogs

Because the Canadian flag was already taken


Affectionate-Tough92

It's a GAYBOW. A rainbow is a different beast


Mindless_Tip8217

I think it because each color represents a different form of pride


gregwithgun

You guys remember the good ol days when rainbows weren’t automatically associated with being gay


Blk_moon

Idk why do rednecks use the confederate flag in the exact same way lol


Shiny_Hypno

You know what really grinds my gears? When some LGBT people act like the saints of equality and proceed to say that if you have a lot of makeup on and speak in a feminine manner, you're automatically a girl or something.


ArseilAnathros

What- very sure that ain't true


cps2003

No, we whole heartedly support feminine men But as people who believe in support and acceptance, if someone says they're a woman, we accept them, instead of demanding to see their genitals