President of Gay and Lesbian Tourism Australia (GALTA) Mario Paez agreed that there was tremendous growth potential. ( ABC News: Sofie Wainwright) Marketing the 'glamping' lifestyle Laine Isaac, who joined Australia's Gay Nomads for the first time in Broken Hill, says he prefers camping with the group than he does by himself. "Companies coming up saying 'My goodness, never thought of gays and lesbians camping, we thought they were always in an urban environment'." Potential for growth "The types of organisations that want to know us now and talk about how they can get their messages to our members has been really, really interesting. "We're actually more accepted in a camping situation than we are in the city," Ms Hocking said. Lynne Hocking said the group debunked the stereotype that all LGBTI people were urban and city dwellers. "It's very difficult when you're sitting down at a camp with straight people to all of a sudden say, 'Hey, I'm not quite what you think I am'." "You don't have to be closeted … you can be outspoken and discuss things," Mr Isaac said. Laine Isaac is new to the group and said he felt at ease spending time with like-minded people during his travels. "The constituency is different and I think it's wonderful because nobody judges anybody else." "Everybody gets up in the morning and the sun shines on us all the same, and it's a little pop-up village every single night," Mr Watson said.
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He said there was a sense of equality at caravan parks and camping sites. Other variations of the Pride flag include Genderfluid, Genderflexible and Genderqueer Pride flags for the Leather, Bear, and BDSM communities a Polysexual Pride flag Agender and Aromantic Pride flags and even a rarely-seen Straight Ally Pride Flag with a large rainbow triangle amidst black and white stripes.Ms Fair sings and dances with a crowd of strangers and fellow gay nomads at a Broken Hill caravan park. The Asexual Pride flag, created in 2010, has four stripes: Black to represent asexuality, grey for demisexuality, white for allies, and purple for community. A variation on the Poly flag turns the black stripe into a triangle and replaces the Pi symbol with a yellow stripe. The Pansexual Pride flag is comprised of pink (representing attraction to femmes), yellow (attraction to nonbinary people), and blue (attraction to masc people) stripes.Ī less widely adopted Polyamory Pride flag has a blue (represention openness), red (passion), and black (solidarity) stripe with a gold (emotional attachment) Pi symbol in the middle. As designed, the pink represents same-sex attraction, the blue represents other-sex attraction, and the thin purple stripe stands for the breadth of the gender spectrum. It has a pink block at the top, a thinner purple stripe, and then a blue block at the bottom. The Bisexual Pride flag has also seen common use for many years. Lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and even leather groups created symbols for their communities, and over time came into more widespread use. But over the years, groups within the queer community felt the need to assert their presence as well. Over the years, the rainbow-striped Pride flag came to be thought of as the sole icon of Pride. “Gay” as a catch-all term for anything gender-nonconforming is a fast-vanishing vestige of patriarchy. Today, Pride is much more inclusive of lesbians, bisexual people, and people who are trans or poly or asexual or queer. Though it was often called the “Gay Pride Flag” at first, it’s now come to represent a much broader community than just gay men. Baker and a friend named Lynn Segerblom, also known as Faerie Argyle Rainbow, developed a rainbow version that had eight colors, with a hot pink stripe later removed because it was difficult to dye. There, he befriended Milk, who challenged him to create a symbol for what was then more commonly called the gay community. Baker had served in the Army, and moved to San Francisco following his honorable discharge.
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The history of the Pride flag can be traced back to Harvey Milk, the famous San Francisco city Supervisor, and his friend Gilbert Baker in the 1970s.
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None of those symbols was particularly widespread in modern times, however.