“The pattern is such that no matter which way you fly it, it will always be correct. This symbolizes us trying to find correctness in our own lives” she says. The Asexual pride flag was conceived in August in the year 2010 to help boost knowledge of asexuality. Just like other pride flags, this flag has colors that denote different meanings. For example, black means asexuality, grey means grey-asexuality (a grey area between asexuality and sexuality), and demisexuality, white means sexuality, and purple means community.ĭevised in 2009 by Natalie Phox to signify the disposition of those who are born intersexed, the flag is pretty unique in its own rights.
The outer two layers are lavender in color and symbolize the spirit while the middle stripe is the mixing of two colors, pink and blue that symbolizes the combination of two generic genders.
There is no single person who can be credited for the creation of the pansexual flag. Not too long ago, LGBTQ+ people who wanted to see themselves represented in holiday movies could either (a) pretend or (b) settle for a second-rate film with a queer character who had very few lines, ambition, or development.Įarly in the contemporary holiday queer canon, The Family Stone, which stars gay icon Sarah Jessica Parker as a (shocker) snobby New Yorker spending the holidays at her boyfriend’s family home, became queer canon for its B-plot gay couple with ambitions to adopt a baby.However, this flag emerged somewhere in 2010. And while the film is still worth an annual watch, so much more has happened in seasonal cinema since SJP’s iconic spilled-strata scene with matriarch Diane Keaton. That is, queer holiday films actually center queer people now - same-sex holiday revelers crush and fall in love, break up, regain romance, and just live the same celebratory December existence every heterosexual (or closeted) character has gotten for, well, ever. Now if we could just get a smart, well-written, celebrity-cast lesbian Hanukkah rom-com.
Lifetime’s new and first-ever lesbian Christmas movie is a legitimately good queer film in which the main character, Alma (Elise Bauman), is not only accepted by her Maine-based, small-Christmas-business-owner parents for being a lesbian but also encouraged to fall in love with out-of-town stranger Charlie (Tattiawna Jones). Cheesy as it is, the premise is as sweet as it is predictable with plenty of fun, memorable scenes and unexpected moments thrown in. And perhaps against all odds, there’s at least one decent queer-sex joke in this PG-rated made-for-TV seasonal flick, which definitely has annual-watch potential. Where to watch: Lifetime Christmas at the Ranch (2021)Ĭorporate city girl returns back home to her small town to save the family business and fall in love with the family ranch hand? Classic trope, except this time, the meet-cute is between two women. Haley (Laur Allen) and Kate (Amanda Righetti) have an irresistibly adorable chemistry from their first few dating-app messages. The plot is, again, predictable from the first few minutes, and the cheesiness is palpable, but that’s part of the charm.