maybe it has less colours?

or different colours? hmm, I'm off to think about rainbows....

Rainbows are roygbiv (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).  However, typically, rainbows aren't printed with indigo in them.  So, I don't see how the "gay pride" rainbow is depicted any different than any other rainbow.

The difference is that if you look at a normal rainbow in the sky the gay flag has the red on the top..the colours are upsidedown.

The difference is that if you look at a normal rainbow in the sky the gay flag has the red on the top..the colours are upsidedown.

eh...I don't know what sky you are looking at, but rainbows always have red as the top color........ that is where "roy g biv" comes from.  It's the order of the colors of the rainbow from top to bottom.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?

Whatever happened to the upside down pink triangle as the icon of gayness? I remember seeing that one a lot, and then over the last few years it has been replaced by the rainbow.

-- B

The upside down pink triangle?

I cut and pasted this and forgot to write down the source - oops...

Apparantly:

The upside-down pink triangle was used by the Nazis to signify homosexuals. Although, homosexuals were only one of the groups targeted for extermination, it is unfortunately, the group that history often excludes. The pink triangle defies anyone to deny history.

In 1935 Hitler revised the German Law, Paragraph 175, prohibiting homosexuality, by including kissing, embracing, and gay fantasies as well as sexual acts. Convicted offenders-- an estimated 25,000 from 1937 to 1939, were sent to prison and later transferred to concentration camps. They were to be sterilized, most often by castration. Hitler changed his policy on homosexuality to include death in 1942.

Concentration camp prisoners were designated into groups by colored inverted triangles, which set up a social hierarchy among prisoners. A green triangle marked the wearer as a regular criminal; a red triangle denoted a political prisoner, two yellow overlapping triangles forming a Star of David denotes Jewish prisoners. The pink triangle was for homosexuals. A yellow Star of David under a superimposed pink triangle represented gay Jewish prisoners-- by the social hierarchy, the lowest of all prisoners.

Today, though, the upside-down triangle has come to be a symbol of pride and recognition among the GLB community and friends. Bars with upside-down triangles on the sign can safely be assumed to be gay bars, for example. The pink triangle is still associated with gays, and now lesbians have adopted the black triangle. A purple triangle signifies bisexuality, and a rainbow triangle is for GLB recognition across the board!

Whatever happened to the upside down pink triangle as the icon of gayness?

Yes, as I recall Jerry Falwell had a cow over Tinky-Winky being gay because he had a triangle on his noggin and carried a purse (one of those TeleTubbies, Tinky was the purple one)

Hmm, the evidence certainly points to Tinky-Winky being gay... his names a bit of a worry though. Cause if 'winky' means dick, what does 'tinky' mean?

Oh dear, I'm discussing tele-tubbies...