Last Updated on July 9, 2017 by Kittredge Cherry
Happy Easter! Christ is risen! Rejoice!
Flags of the LGBTQ+ community come together to make a colorful cross in this year’s Easter image from the Jesus in Love Blog at Q Spirit.
Can you identify all the flags in the cross?
Please leave comments naming the flags — like a queer Easter egg hunt. The answers are posted in the article “LGBTQ+ flags make a colorful cross of diversity and creativity.”
The LGBTQ+ Flag Cross sends a message that the body of Christ includes members of the LGBTQIA+ community: lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, queers, intersex people, allies and all. Logos for Q Spirit and Jesus in Love are part of the mix too. As the Bible says:
“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.” — Romans 2:4-6
The LGBTQ+ community actually has many more flags than could we can fit onto this cross. Christ glows with the colors of all beings. These colors are embodied by the flags of the LGBTQ community and the world. Together we are the body of Christ.
May the Risen Rainbow Christ light up your life!
This glorious Easter image was created for Q Spirit / Jesus in Love by lesbian Christian author Kittredge Cherry and Andrew Murphy-Williams, a queer artist, writer and music maker based in Wales. Their Easter collaboration on artwork has become a beloved tradition, with previous images in 2012 , 2013, 2014 and 2016.
For the true meaning of Easter, check out The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision with art by Douglas Blanchard with commentary by Kittredge Cherry.
You are invited to give to my Easter offering to support my work at Jesus in Love for LGBT spirituality and the arts. Give now at my donate page.
Thank you to everyone for the many ways you show support. Christ is risen indeed! Happy Easter!
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Top image credit:
“LGBTQIA+ Flag Cross” by Andrew Murphy-Williams and Kittredge Cherry
Related links:
Rainbow Christ Prayer: LGBT flag reveals the queer Christ
Rainbow Christ Prayer translated into 10 languages
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This post is part of the LGBTQ Calendar series by Kittredge Cherry. The series celebrates religious and spiritual holidays, events in LGBTQ history, holy days, feast days, festivals, anniversaries, liturgical seasons and other occasions of special interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people of faith and our allies.
Happy Easter! Beautiful image of diversity in community. I promise I didn’t use Google for these guesses 😉 The labrys (double-headed axe) is a radical feminist symbol, so that could be the lesbian feminist flag or lesbian separatist? The one right below the Jesus image, pink-purple-blue, is the bisexual flag. The one in shades of brown looks like it has a pawprint on it… otherkin?
Very good, Jendi! You correctly identified the lesbian and bisexual flags.
Keep guessing about the brown one with the paw print. Or look it up. It’s something Julian might want to know about.
The flag with the labrys is for all lesbians, not just feminists or separatists (or so says Wikipedia). I’m a lesbian, and I didn’t know about this flag until this month when I started working on this flag cross. It also features the black triangle used by Nazis to designate prisoners with anti-social behavior, including lesbians. We couldn’t fit it on this cross, but there is also a “lipstick lesbian pride flag” with — you guessed it — with a lipstick kiss mark.
I’m glad you identified the bisexual flag because we went to some extra effort to include it. Somehow it got left off our first draft of the LGBTQ+ flag.
The pink, white and blue flag at the bottom represents transgender.
Right, Trudie! Wikipedia says that the Transgender Pride flag was designed by Monica Helms, and was first shown at a pride parade in Phoenix, Arizona, USA in 2000. She says: “The light blue is the traditional color for baby boys, pink is for girls, and the white in the middle is for those who are transitioning, those who feel they have a neutral gender or no gender, and those who are intersexed. The pattern is such that no matter which way you fly it, it will always be correct. This symbolizes us trying to find correctness in our own lives.”
I thought you would like to know that the flag for allies in included too. Can you identify it?
The one on the far left (with the black, gray, white, and purple stripes) is the asexual flag!
You are correct, Taylor! Congrats for identifying the asexual flag. Wikipedia explains, “The black represents asexuality, the grey represents grey-asexuality and demisexuality, the white represents non-asexual partners and allies, and the purple represents community.”