The rainbow

[Ayame_Rikimayu]

As a symbol for the gay community I'm indifferent. As for rainbows themselves, I love them soo much. My love for rainbows has nothing to do with me being gay. I just love rainbows (and Lisa Frank)  

[The Real Shanaku]

I'll be honest, I love rainbows (I dislike the gay stereotype, but I had to admit it), but as a symbol, it is begging for more torture in my community.  

[Sarah_L_Awesome]

I love 'em, not because they're pretty, actually they tend to annoy me but I have a homophobic cousin and every time I'm in the same building as her I like to point out rainbows and say "Hey look! God is celebrating pride day! Looks like the gays aren't goint to hell after all!....*walks away*... b***h"  

[Vongola Rain Yamamoto]

it means that life is colorful haahahhaha  

[PandoraCaitiff]

It's a great symbol if you understand what it represents.

It's nothing to do with the Handkercheif Code. It was specificaly designed byGilbert Baker in the 1970s. And the colours represent:

hot pink: sexuality
red: life
orange: healing
yellow: sunlight
green: nature
turquoise: magic/art
indigo/blue: serenity/harmony
violet: spirit

Purple has also been reclaimed recently by Bisexual and Transgender people as it is the mixture of blue (male) and red/pink (female)  

[Ogyshi]

Too colourful. Don't like.

That is, I don't like the appearance of it. As it is just too rainbowy. I actually have a button that I have on my school book bag that has the phrase: I'm gay but I really don't like rainbows.

I do, however, really love double rainbows. What do they mean?  

[Corporal Maladict]

Wikipedia on the Rainbow Flag  

[xxlazerwolfxx]

I personally don't care, I mean the nazi leader Hitler liked shastickas, and that became a nazi symbol, so what ever makes a person happy  

[Tim Stiff]

I completely support what rainbows stand for and that other people like it to show a symbol of their pride and such....
That said, I am just not a rainbow fan.
I love colours. I don't think there is one colour I particularly don't like. But having all those colours together is kind of overwhelming for me. I would probably wear a small rainbow pin or anything of similar size, but that would be the most.  

[Ziroshi Takashi]

PandoraCaitiff

It's a great symbol if you understand what it represents.

It's nothing to do with the Handkercheif Code. It was specificaly designed byGilbert Baker in the 1970s. And the colours represent:

hot pink: sexuality
red: life
orange: healing
yellow: sunlight
green: nature
turquoise: magic/art
indigo/blue: serenity/harmony
violet: spirit

Purple has also been reclaimed recently by Bisexual and Transgender people as it is the mixture of blue (male) and red/pink (female)

MY PURPLE!

But seriously, that is pretty cool surprised never new the meanings of all the colors...  

[Sarah_L_Awesome]

I like it because rainbows are cool sweatdrop ...  

[Saturdays Tierce]

I think it is an excellent symbol, it includes a whole spectrum of people, not just one color per say.

It represents (to me at least) that we are all different shades, but made of the same thing ( for symbolism, that would be light, IRL, Human beings) and that we should accept everyone for who they are, no matter how different they are from us.  

[DoctorButler]

The rainbow makes it easier to represent, but may also make you a target. Bisexual flag is sexier anyway.  

[Luneth Moon]

I, personally, don't care to much for rainbows.
Yet... as a symbol of pride I have multiple colored hair ties making a rainbow attached to my mp4 player.
I actually bought the hair ties 1) cuz I needed some, and 2) because I was going to make a rainbow pattern with them on my wrist when I went out (away from my family, of course), but they ended up being to small for both my hair and wrist and....

...Sorry, it seems that I started rambling a bit.

But all this said, note that I'm very, very manly looking. I can thank Cherokee ancestry for that.  

[Ziroshi Takashi]

DoctorButler

The rainbow makes it easier to represent, but may also make you a target. Bisexual flag is sexier anyway.

This is a good point, I wear a bracelet with the colors of the Bi-sexual flag on it, only because almost no one knows what it means...


Hell, I didn't even know we had a flag until after I came here razz