Talk:Rainbow flag

GA Reassessment

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This article has been expanded with a lot of unsourced content since passing GA in 2007. Therefore, it fails GA criteria 2. sst✈ 12:27, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

• Since there has been no progress after more than 7 days of the start of the reassessment, and I have already notified relevant WikiProjects, I am delisting this article. sst✈ 08:12, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Free Speech Flag

The Free Speech Flag from 2007 has been used similarly to other rainbow flags in large-scale mass opposition to authoritarian suppression, at cost to those who exhibit or promote it. The flag covertly encodes the illegal number visually and highlights consequences of criminalising numbers. When it was released, the third comment submitted to the designer's webpage says, "Ummm… the idea of a flag is nice, but yours looks a little too much like the gay rainbow." It seems like its inclusion in this article would be a good fit -- are there any criteria which disqualify it which I'm overlooking? The Free Speech Flag displays five bands of different hues, and I see this article lists several flags which only display three (red, yellow, blue, or red, brown and yellow). Natural rainbows produce the whole continuum of spectral frequencies so it seems to me the Free Speech Flag's hues would appear in a real rainbow at the appropriate places. I'd suggest something along the lines of:

The Free Speech Flag was created in 2007 to directly represent in red-green-blue levels parts of a number key to the digital rights management of DVDs. Escalating authoritarian censorship of the number sparked controversy, creativity, and the Streisand effect. Its creator, John Marcotte, said, "We want to start a movement [...] to reclaim personal liberties and decorporatize the laws of our nation. To that end we have made a flag, a symbol to show support for personal freedoms. Spread it as far and wide as you can."

Thanks! 37.60.86.4 (talk) 01:30, 14 June 2024 (UTC) 37.60.86.4 (talk) 01:30, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Please read what is meant by "reliable, published sources" in Wikipedia and why self-published sources are not acceptable. Pyxis Solitary (yak yak). Ol' homo. 21:52, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

References

Brotherhood flag

@Pyxis Solitary and RootOfAllLight: regarding the Brotherhood flag which appears to be a clone of the Flag of the Races mentioned in the archive of that The American ref shown in the summary of this edit. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 22:13, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Quoting source: "Others say Baker got the idea from the 1960s Hippie movement whose peace activists often carried a Flag of the Races with five horizontal stripes: red, black, brown, yellow, and white, representing the different ethnicities."
I get what you're saying about the Brotherhood flag maybe being a clone of the Races flag, but the edit I reverted stated "The flag design may have been inspired by the Brotherhood Flag from 1938." Pyxis Solitary (yak yak). Ol' homo. 06:52, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Indeed; no argument there; worth noting that there may be more to the story though. I only found a couple of half-reasonable references about the link when I went looking: this self published refers to its source as the "Carleton Sexuality and Gender Center" and I tried to find that source but came up empty. If a Wayback Machine whisperer cares to try we might get lucky; also self published (I think), there's this talking about assumptions that the two are linked. Although they aren't good enough as references, there definitely seems to be something to the suggestion that there's a connection. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 15:04, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

also self published (I think) – Identifying and using self-published works. Pyxis Solitary (yak yak). Ol' homo. 20:29, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Really? Useless. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 22:04, 3 July 2024 (UTC)