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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8681356" data-attributes="member: 7025997">I mean, I'm only LGBTQIA in a very loose definition (heteroflexible grey-aromantic passing as straight), but seems to me you asked someone from the community for their opinion, they answered, and you didn't like it.A culture that embraces gender-fluidity has no need for Pride. (If elves faced oppression from less fluid ancestries, it would probably be an elf pride festival as well!) Also even cultures with more than two genders tend to have taboos and rules around those genders as well.Reading from the outside, seems like you really want to have a sex festival (which is fine IMHO, especially when cure disease is a thing and I assume there are contraceptive spells and potions) and are conflating it with Pride (which apparently people aren't so great on). And drop the genital bit...that's between the NPCs and each other. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> You seem to value being an ally, and that means listening to the people you're supposed to be in alliance with (I think?) So...why not have two festivals, as suggested?I'll say that a lot of the official designations for the color stripes seem tacked-on after the fact--most of the flags seem to work from pink/red='feminine', blue='masculine', and go from there (purple was in the original bisexual flag and is red + blue, yellow is 'not red or blue' as one of the RYB primaries and thus shows up in the intersexual and pansexual flags where it specifically replaces purple to highlight pan is not binary, gray is 'not-X' because it's not a color, and then you add on purple and green for asexual and aromantic as other not-red-or-blue colors and so on). People have to be able to understand what you're trying to say with a nonverbal symbol like a flag.Frankly, I think the designers of the original rainbow flag wanted to make something that was beautiful (the original had 8 stripes and didn't stick to primary and secondary colors) and would have positive associations, plus the idea of the rainbow as representing diversity (racial diversity in particular was a concern, and the rainbow was often used as a symbol for that). And, you know, it was a pretty successful piece of branding!So...maybe the sex festival and the festival where they show pretty rainbows are separate festivals. Or something..</blockquote>

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