greeting your relatives

someday this picture will be on the tumblr radar with millions of notes. and then it will be so big to where it will destroy all of tumblr thats what i believe
Minnesota’s Giant Rainbow and Leather Pride Flags

June 28, 1998. Both flags measured approximately 50 feet wide and 75 feet long.
Friendly reminder that the leather flag predates almost every other flag. We owe this community to leather daddies and kinksters
In the era of corporate sanitization never forget it was leather daddies and S&M folks who protected some of the earliest pride parades.
“Almost every other flag” is not an exaggeration. There is literally only one Pride flag older than the Leather Pride flag, and that’s the original 8-stripe (and then 6-stripe) rainbow flag.
A quick timeline:
And on from there.
So it’s pretty clear that the Leather flag has been an accepted symbol within the queer community for years - and in some cases decades - before more recently-designed flags. This isn’t a case of the flag being “better” or whatever, but it’s kind of undeniable that yes - the Leather community and the queer community have always been undeniably entangled.