However, in 2021, the creator of the original MLM flag on ask-pride-color-schemes returned to address the controversy, expressed that they oppose transmed and truscum and that the flag was always meant to be fully inclusive. Years went by, and the opinion of gayflagblog's flag was a good 50/50 among the pride community on wether or not it was acceptable. I witnessed most of not all of this firsthand XD) (There were also some TERFS that joined in, if memory serves. It was, genuinely, a very small minority of lesbians who argued against gayflagblog's new flag, they were just VERY vocal.
Transmed and truscum, angry that their flag was reclaimed and repurposed, joined in on this torrent of hatred and fueled the fire by arguing on the sides of the few angry lesbians. And most common that it was just "ugly" and decided to call it the "toothpaste flag". That it seemed like "gay men were just ripping off the lesbian flag" and thus it was lesbophobic. Some of their claims were that it was NB-exclusive and transmed/truscum aligned for even basing itself off of the old MLM flag-even though gayflagblog expressed that it was an all inclusive flag.
They also gave further meaning to the flag and provided variations.īecause of the gain in popularity of this updated flag, some members of the lesbian community campaigned against this new MLM flag. In doing so they changed the evergreen shades to mint, and the cobalt shades to indigo. Then, in 2019, the tumblr blog gayflagblog posted their own updated version of the previous MLM flag. Years passed and for the most part, this flag had stopped circulating in transmed truscum circles, but was still recognizable. Soon after making this flag that user left tumblr, but not the blog.īecause of their departure, and the minimal amount of information the original creator gave on the flag, transmed and truscum adopted the flag as an exclusionary gay-men flag. The original version of the now common green/purple MLM flag was made in 2016 by one of the users of the blog ask-pride-color-schemes on tumblr.