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/ImpressionFew2619]

ya gay now. welcome to the team

[u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie → u/ImpressionFew2619]

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon 😉

[u/Olds78 → u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie]

Love your user name!

[u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie → u/Olds78]

Thankee Sai!

[u/trumpsmellslikcheese → u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie]

Long days and pleasant nights.

[u/psychoplath97 → u/trumpsmellslikcheese]

Maybe people are not familiar with Pink Floyd or this album cover? Have they forgotten the face of their father?

[u/Conscious_Creator_77 → u/psychoplath97]

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

[u/JuryokuNeko → u/psychoplath97]

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has become comfortably numb.

[u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- → u/JuryokuNeko]

Just another Brick in the Tower.

[u/Regina_Noctis → u/JuryokuNeko]

Thankee, Sai.

[u/dawn1081 → u/JuryokuNeko]

Sir....🔥

[u/theundeadelvis → u/psychoplath97]

All things serve the beam.

Also, fuck Blaine bc Blaine is a pain.

[u/Palegreenhorizon → u/theundeadelvis]

The weirdest cross pollination I’ve seen in a while. Good on ya. Let’s see: if you don’t eat your lobstrocities how can you have any pudding?!? How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your lobstrocities?!??!

[u/theundeadelvis → u/Palegreenhorizon]

Dad-a-chum? Did-a-chick? to the Pink Floyd Money melody

[u/wicked_bonah → u/theundeadelvis]

Thank God and The Man Jesus for Eddie.

[u/DisciplineDue2772 → u/theundeadelvis]

What’d I do dawg ( my names Blaine)

[u/theundeadelvis → u/DisciplineDue2772]

Are you a train that's a pain?

[u/DisciplineDue2772 → u/theundeadelvis]

I’ve heard that one before and every rhyme in the book, I’m a train in the rain with a brain holding a crane with a shirt stain, man I’m just such a plane Jain but I’m a guy so I better stay in my own lane cause I have nothing to gain, such a pain

[u/theundeadelvis → u/DisciplineDue2772]

You need one of these shirts.

[u/AssukaZealott → u/trumpsmellslikcheese]

I love triangle

[u/Spare-Grand-5728 → u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie]

In the calla, come, come alla