I wasn’t weird enough for the “four building freaks” (the theatre kids that spent their Friday nights singing the RENT soundtrack). I wasn’t basic or bitchy enough for the “popular” girls who collected hideous pink Juicy Couture tracksuits for sport and would kill a bitch for a brand-new silver Tiffany ID bracelet. And I was too polished and too fashion-crazed for the stoner-faux-hippy-chicks, the non-deodorant wearing lady teen potheads, who wore sarongs to school in the depths of the New England winter.īut in the lesbian underworld of Provincetown, I belonged. I went saw on a fortune teller on that trip. She was an older dyke, with a shaved head and lip-ring. “Am I going to date women, or men, when I’m older?” I asked her, praying to the lesbian goddesses that she said women. “Oh, definitely women, honey.” She answered staring into my eager, gay eyeballs. I felt something I had never felt before in my life. In that moment I vowed to get a tattoo as soon as I was home, to memorialize my newfound sense of self. I spent the rest of trip staring at lesbians and the creative tattoos that peppered across their lesbian bodies. Almost every lesbian I saw that summer had tattoos.
The LGBTQ community has a meaningful history of tattooing.Didn’t matter if they were high-fluting power-babes with sprawling mansions in the mountains or day-tripping 21-year-olds with torn-up backpacks they were all adorned in ink. LGBTQ tattoos were used for secret messages – people chose to tattoo iconic LGBT symbols on themselves to be recognized by other LGBTQIA+ people.Īnd in a way that might still be the appeal for LGBTQIA+ people these days. They help make a statement about who you are and how you feel. Tattoos don’t always have to be radical, they can be aesthetic, cute even! Tattoos have officially become mainstream popular! There has always been a stigma on tattoos (my mum still thinks tattoos are mutilation of the body), but over recent years, public opinion is shifting.
Your body is a blank canvas, don’t be afraid to express yourselfĭisclaimer: tattoo designs may be protected by copyright! The person who designs the tattoo has intellectual property rights if the piece meets the requirements for artistic copyright. Rainbow Tattoo IdeasĪ rainbow tattoo doesn’t have to come with rainbow colors! There are many ways to symbolize a rainbow with black ink.
Over the years, many more pride flags were created (see more in the LGBT Pride Tattoo section!) Minimalist tattoos are on the rise and in more visible places like ears/fingers!Īn absolute classic, and a tattoo that will be obvious to everyone! The original pride flag was designed by a San Francisco artist, Gilbert Baker. Get a meaningful word, or quote tattooed in rainbow colors!Ĭoming out is freeing. Get a rainbow tattoo symbolizing that freedom and living life in color! Living life as your true self is freeing. If you fall under the umbrella term LGBTQ+, why not get a rainbow umbrella tattooed to symbolize that? Rainbow Watercolor Tattoo Ideas How beautiful is this rainbow planet tattoo?! There are so many designs with a rainbow line! From a simple, straight line, to a heart, to a heartbeat, to dotted lines. Sometimes figuring out your identity, is the last piece to fit the puzzle.