Pride lesbian flag

An early queer woman flag and symbolism

In , same-sex attracted graphic designer, Sean Campbell created one of the first womxn loving womxn flags. It contains an inverted black triangle that repurposes a Nazi symbol used during Society War ll. Under the Nazi regime, women who did not conform to Nazi ideals would be sent to concentration camps and marked with an upside down black triangle badge for identification and men would be forced to wear the equal in pink.

The double axe &#; known as labrys &#; represents the strength and feminism of homosexual women and was adopted into the lesbian community in the s. The labrys is also featured within Greek and Roman mythology, associated with Laphria, Artemis and Determis. The axe-like weapon was frequently seen in depictions of women warriors like Amazons. These women would fight as men did and are seen as a symbol of feminism.

Violets were another early lesbian symbol, dating endorse to c BC. The poet Sappho described her lover as wearing a garland of violets. In the middle of the last century, lesbian women would donate violets to women as an i