why rainbows?

[CryingEye666]

i guess this goes here?

uhm i was just wondering, why are rainbows things that people refer to when they see someone who's gay or something. why is it rainbows that have to be that symbol? its a symbol of happiness. im perfectly straight, maybe i like rainbows, so what?

can anyone explain please? :confused:

ps im going to sleep but u can still post here so ill c it tomorrrow
goodnite

[redcar]

Well I know some guy in the 70's was the first to use it in a Pride march and it was inspired by the song Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz.

And when you see lines like:

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

You can see how it can link in with the LGBT community.

[Rawrbaby]

the colors and the flag itself show the diversity of the group the colors are diverse and and to show different thangs like some people classifie the colors to different thangs:

red- life

orange- healing

yellow- sunlight

green- nature

blue- srenity

violet- spirit


there actual used to be 8 colors before it was switched to 7 colors then 6 colors

the rainbow itself represents diversity and butay hope this helps

[MoveAlong]

This is the perfect place for this kind of stuff! When this forum becomes an official forum, I want to see things like this posted here :D


It seems like the rainbow means something different to everybody. I don't think any gay person would know for sure, I don't know it : /
Here's what it means to me:

The rainbow is festive, and looks great at parties :P
Plus it also represents diversity. All colors blend to make different colors from the main red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. In all parts of the rainbow, it's like a spectrum. There's blended colors, and they're at different intensities and levels. But all the same in some way - they're all colors, and they're all a different part of the whole and blended from eachother. Just like people.

When I wave a rainbow flag, I think of diversity. I also enjoy the colors since it looks nice! But mostly I look at it and think of how lovely that diversity is and we can still unite as one group.
Whether we're poor or rich, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered, sick or healthy, one color of the skin or another...
when it's put up as a symbol of a group, it's just that - the symbol of shared opinions and a celebration of the one thing we share as a diverse group...the pride of who we are. I guess that's a bit exaggerated, but that's what I think of it :P

That's what it means to me.

[Serenity]

This is the perfect place for this kind of stuff! When this forum becomes an official forum, I want to see things like this posted here :D


It seems like the rainbow means something different to everybody. I don't think any gay person would know for sure, I don't know it : /
Here's what it means to me:

The rainbow is festive, and looks great at parties :P
Plus it also represents diversity. All colors blend to make different colors - the main red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.
But in certain parts of the rainbow, the two colors blend to make a similar color. Blue into violet makes a bluish purple...Red into orange spices the orange up. Yellow and green makes the green much brighter. It's different, but in a way it's the same. Just like people. All colors. All blended in - similar to eachother, but not exactly the same. Still all diverse in some way.

When I wave a rainbow flag, I think of diversity. I also enjoy the colors since it looks nice! But mostly I look at it and think of how lovely that diversity is and we can still unite as one group.
Whether we're atheists and gay, Christians and gay, black and gay, Indian and gay, or white and gay, poor and gay and rich and gay (leaving the LBT community out of it because that's a hell of a long list). When it's put up as a symbol of a group, it's just that - the symbol of shared opinions and a celebration of those opinions. I guess that's a bit exaggerated, but that's what I think of it :P

That's what it means to me.


Not exaggerated at all, I loved your post! Very inspirational :D

[MoveAlong]

Not exaggerated at all, I loved your post! Very inspirational :D

Thanks :) I edited it though, I'm so OCDish :P

[LateForTheSky]

When was the lgbt rainbow thing made? Because if u look at Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon cover it was all of those colours in the order set out like a rainbow

[LateForTheSky]

Plus pink floyd have the dark side of the rainbow thing. Where u listen to dark side of the moon and watch the wizard of oz muted. They say the similaritys are coinsadence

[Rawrbaby]

it was origanly made in the 70s when people started to come out more and when the lgbt rights movement picked up it was used during many parades and when the mayor and his boyfriend and assistant of san fransico were murder cause they were gay it met high demand due to a guy named baker using the flag in a pride parade and because many were in demand a company started making them and it became more widespread and thus we have the rainbow flag

does this help big daddy

[MoveAlong]

it was origanly made in the 70s when people started to come out more and when the lgbt rights movement picked up it was used during many parades and when the mayor and his boyfriend and assistant of san fransico were murder cause they were gay it met high demand due to a guy named baker using the flag in a pride parade and because many were in demand a company started making them and it became more widespread and thus we have the rainbow flag

does this help big daddy

I don't get this post at all, and most of the reason was you didn't use punctuation!! :P

Jackson, I don't see how that has anything to do with the gay community :|

[latedeveloper313]

Plus pink floyd have the dark side of the rainbow thing. Where u listen to dark side of the moon and watch the wizard of oz muted. They say the similaritys are coinsadence

Thats just what happens when light refracts , coincidence...