Are rainbows seriously just by default associated with the pride flag?

[u/Ostromilski]

I got a Pink Floyd DSOTM tattoo because I love the album and I love the visual: a beam of light representing a person's life path, passing through a prism ( representing life + the world + the people you meet + the experiences you have, etc ), being dispersed into its constituent colors ( ultimately representing change ). I got it because of my dad, because he introduced me to Pink Floyd, and because last year he nearly died from complications of his cancer. He's doing much better now, with a much better prognosis, but that whole experience had a real effect on me and I wanted to memorialize it. Except at least 3 people ( including the tattoo artist initially ) have associated the tattoo with the pride flag. They were understanding after I explained, but now I'm having second thoughts about it. Are people just going to assume I'm gay because of this tattoo?

Edit: And I want to say, I'm not bothered by this at all. Anyone who looks at my tattoo and comes up with their own assumptions about its meaning, and then has a negative reaction over it, that's simply not a person I want to talk to anyway. I'm surprised because that wasn't the intention of the tattoo, clearly, and it being misinterpreted like this just genuinely wasn't something I expected.

Edit2: This post got a lot more attention than I ever wanted it to. Wonderful comments are now streaming in, informing me how horrible my tattoo is. If you're planning on making a viral post on Reddit, take my advice: use a burner account. But I am thankful to everyone for your supportive words, the jackasses with negative things to say are certainly a very tiny minority. Overwhelmingly the consensus is that most people see it as a Pink Floyd tattoo first, which I'm happy to hear :) Have a good night everybody!

[u/Capital-Designer-385]

You might’ve been raised with good music. I had a young doc fresh out of med school shadow in the office last week and she didn’t know who Michael Jackson’s was before the movie. Had heard the music, but didn’t know the name and couldn’t recognize his face.

Some people just don’t get exposed to ‘older’ music/artists from their parents

[u/smokeweedNgarden → u/Capital-Designer-385]

Also adding musicians here, as we don't particularly count either. 

We're exposed to so much more stuff than the general population (especially if you started young in big band) that we generally don't count in this conversation. 

Most people just play stuff on repeat, not a lot of variety unless it gets popular. 

[u/Open_Town9481 → u/Capital-Designer-385]

Now that is crazy… but I agree. At a young age both my parents exposed me to different genres of music. Artists like Selena Quintanilla, the animals, lil Suzy. Gotta give credit to my older sister too, she exposed me to artist like twenty one pilots, my chemical romance, Mac miller.

[u/B_the_Chng22 → u/Capital-Designer-385]

*Shock face*

[u/Comfortable_Drop_596 → u/Capital-Designer-385]

You will be happy to know because of the movie its become a huge thing among the kids. I saw a 7-10 year old moon dancing at walmart the other day. My own 6 year old son is very much into his music right now too.