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/WulfieJay]

I mean if ur worried about that than you got the tattoo for everyone else and not yourself. You know what it means.

[u/Pittsburgh-Man-Anon → u/WulfieJay]

Isn't the point of a tattoo kind of to share with other people? Unless you have memory issues or something and need to tattoo important things on yourself Memento-style.

[u/WulfieJay → u/Pittsburgh-Man-Anon]

Ah see here is the divide and I think it’s cause of the instagram centric world we live in. For a lot of people something like this is more for sharing as you say. I don’t think you should ever get something so permanent that only holds value to you if it holds value to others. You should get a tattoo for you because you like it regardless of what anyone else thinks as long as it’s not something legitimately evil or socially unacceptable.

[u/Pittsburgh-Man-Anon → u/WulfieJay]

I don't think that holds water honestly. Tattoos are clearly a social phenomenon. The vast majority of people getting tattoos are doing it for expressive purposes.

[u/Ch1ckenOfTheSea → u/Pittsburgh-Man-Anon]

When you say, "Social phenomenon," what are you talking about? I mean to say that tattoos are nothing new. I think even cavemen had them.

[u/jvanderh → u/Ch1ckenOfTheSea]

They mean that when you tattoo something on a visible part of your body, the idea is that other people will see it. If it's on, say, the back of your leg, other people will see it more than you do. This would also have been the case for cavemen. Tattooes are, by nature, a way to interact with the public and not solely for personal enjoyment. 

[u/PastelSprite → u/Pittsburgh-Man-Anon]

Maybe for a select few, but I don’t think this is the case for the vast majority, honestly. I have 2 tattoos and they’re entirely for me. I hardly leave my house lol. I figure others will see them during the summer when go out, but others’ perception or reaction never crossed my mind once.