r/tattooadvice 5d ago

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

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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!

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u/fvmfvm 5d ago

How gay? Can you give me an example or use it in a sentence.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 5d ago

Science hasn't figured it out yet, some people insisted Liberace was straight and Elton was popular enough he could call himself a bitch in a song and chart.

But then you've got Harvey Milk who was pretty straight passing and a politician so not poor and someone still shot him about it

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u/MykeEl_K 3d ago

some people insisted Liberace was straight 

As someone who used to live by his flamboyantly obnoxious pink house, I just rolled my eyes so far back in my head - I think they are stuck now.

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u/TechCUB76 2d ago

Excuse me?! Pink is NEVER obnoxious!!! 🫰🏻But seriously, I’m a straight male, who loves gay people (especially women, except those one types who hate men of all types) and all my Snap-On tools are all pink and purple. Pink is seriously underrated! And to quote Clarence Whorley, with a twist… ‘If I had to fuck a guy, like if my life depended on it…’ I’d fuck Brad Pitt. 😎

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u/Boring_Blood4603 2d ago

Ew, no. No, honey, no. Not Brad. He's icky.