The design is aesthetically similar to the gay and lesbian, bisexual, transgender, asexual, and pansexual flags that is, horizontal bars of color with special meaning.
I’m scared young people in the closet today won’t have that. The genderqueer pride flag is a Marilyn Roxie design, 3rd and final version created in June 2011, modified from version 1.0 in June 2010, and 2.0 in September 2010. “Even now, seven years later, it still feels like that place. “It gave me a way to watch and view things and allowed me to explore my sexuality without being scared of someone in my school finding out,” Healy said. In the article, a high school student said they first encountered the terms “bisexual” and “non-binary” on Tumblr, terms they said shaped their identity.Īnother Tumblr user, Luke Healy, told NBC News that the microblogging site was his safe space before he came out to people offline, and the explicit content allowed him room for self-discovery. A 2017 Daily Dot article named Tumblr the number one online safe space for LGBTQ people to hang out, thanks to its wide breadth of queer content and its robust dialogue around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer issues. NBC OUT LGBTQ and Out on Social Media - but Nowhere ElseĬharlotte isn’t alone in viewing Tumblr as a queer resort in an often hostile online landscape.
