#LEATHER GAY FLAG FREE#
to be distributed free or sold at cost, or to be used for fund raising for not-for - profit causes that benefit leather men and women. However, we welcome members of the Leather/SM community to use the design for flags, banners, pins, T-shirts, printed material, etc. has a copyright on the design and anyone wishing to use it for purely commercial purposes must receive our written approval. I will leave it to the viewer to interpret the colors and symbols.ĭesmodus Inc. In the upper left quadrant of the flag is a large red heart. From the top, and from the bottom, the stripes alternate black and royal blue. The flag is composed of nine horizontal stripes of equal width. Both of these are groups with which I have been intimately involved for quite some time and both host major events for the Leather and/or SM community. Drummer will also donate flags to the National Leather Association and to Chicago Hellfire Club. With luck both flags will be ready in time to be carried by the Leather contingents in each of these two major pride parades. I have asked GMSMA to be the custodian of the former and The Society of Janus and The Outcasts to be the custodians of the latter. Drummer will be presenting one each to the Leather men and women of New York City and San Francisco. I am having a few more flags manufactured. It seemed to be enthusiastically welcomed. I do not expect this design to be the final form, but the basis from which a widely accepted banner will evolve.Ī prototype was constructed and displayed at the International Mr. I consulted with most of the staff here at Drummer and some of their suggestions were incorporated. I decided that calling a committee meeting to design it would be counterproductive, so I just did it. I was thrilled by the rainbow colored balloons used in the opening and closing ceremonies of Gay Games II and the spectacular rainbow of balloons that arched over the main stage at the G&L pride rally here in San Francisco a couple of years ago.įor the 20th anniversary of Stonewall I felt that the time was right for the Leather men and women who have been participating in these same parades and events more and more visibly in recent years, to have a similar simple, elegant banner that would serve as a symbol of their own identity and interests.
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"The rainbow flag has become the symbol of Gay and Lesbian pride and I have been proud to wear it on my clothing, march behind it in parades, and hand it from my balcony. the flag was received on behalf of the LA&M by the Men of Discipline. Leather 1999 when Tony Presented one of three original Leather Pride Flags which he assembled as a prototype to the Leather Archives & Museum. Deconstructions and re-compositions of the flag's familiar black, blue and white stripes with a red accent-originally a heart-are common, but the design itself was accepted worldwide as introduced.
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The design was immediately embraced and began appearing in parades within a month of its introduction, and turned up in shops as a bumper sticker barely two months later.
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As the creator of the flag, he was often asked to explain the colors and design, but consistently refused to do so, insisting that each person could do that for himself. The most widely celebrated of Tony DeBlase's achievements in the world of leather is and probably always will be the Leather Pride Flag which he presented to the world as a "proposed design idea" on May 28, 1989, at International Mr.