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Pride and Queer Tattoo Symbols Part II
In our last post, we took a look at some of the more iconic gender non-conforming symbols, the pink inverted triangle and the rainbow, and how they came to be adopted, and tattooed, by the LGBTQIA+ community. Today, as June and Pride continue, we move on to a few more significant pieces that many have adorned their skin with, either as a gesture of (using a slightly less parental-advisory phrase) ‘get lost’ to a society that has questioned their way of living. Or, as a symbol of celebration for everything those who identify as anything other than heterosexual cisgendered people have, and still own to, overcome.
Nautical star and the Labrys
In the slow 1940s and 1950s, lesbians began adopting tattoos of the nautical star to quietly make their sexual orientation recognisable amongst themselves. Long favoured by sailors and seafarers as a symbol of protection, guidance, and finding their way back home, it became a way for like-minded women to find each other during a second when same-sex relationships were still criminalised in much of the Western nature. The tattoos were minor, and most often they sat on the inside of the wrist, so that they could easily covere
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You’re sitting in your day parlor, sipping a cup of tea and needlepointing a screen with your female relatives. Then, a maid enters the parlor and informs you that you include a visitor waiting for you in the drawing room. You excuse yourself and enter the drawing room where you find Elizabeth Bennett, holding a bouquet of violets that she picked just for you.
Hi, everyone! Welcome to my fantasy. For years I’ve daydreamed about what present Elizabeth Bennett might bring me to express her genuine intentions (which ranged from a beautifully-written letter sealed in wax to a corgi puppy in basket), but now I know she would bring me violets. Violets are beautiful and adorable flowers in general, but they’re also one of the more famous symbols of female homosexuality, possibly dating help to a poem in which Sappho describes herself and her lover wearing garlands of violets:
If you forget me, think
of our gifts to Aphrodite
and all the loveliness that we shared
all the violet tiaras
braided rosebuds, dill and
crocus twined around your childish neck
Sappho
In the initial 20th century, women used to provide each other violets as a way of telling each other,
Pride and Queer Tattoo Symbols
Even though the celebrations may be more subdued this year (just as they were 12 months ago), June is still Pride month. In honour of the usually vibrant, colourful and life-affirming acknowledgment of everyone’s right to care whomever they choose and to live according to wherever they feel most at home on the sliding scale known as ‘gender identity’, we thought we would take a look at some of the most key but also most popular ways members of the LGBTQIA+ people – and its allies – choose to show the celebration of living their truth through tattooing.
Reclaiming the Pink Triangle
Just as the word ‘queer’, which after is initial meaning of ‘somewhat odd’ came to be used in a derogatory way characterizing effiminate men, one of the most significant LGBTQIA+ tattoo symbols has been reapppropriated. Originally used for incredibly sinister purposes, a pink triangle was the symbol that the Nazis used to demarcate individuals considered to be homosexual. The brightly coloured symbol is now often voluntarily worn – and quite often tattooed, its meaning reclaimed with movement by the wearer.
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