From Studio360’s Gay Flag Design Challenge comes The Flag of Equal Marriage, an evolving protest flag for equal marriage rights in the United States:
The stars on the Jan 1, 2010 flag represent the states that actively perform same-sex marriages. Stars are arranged on the blue field in order of each state’s admission into the union.
The stars are:
- Massachusetts – #6 – May 17, 2004
- Connecticut – #5 – Nov 12, 2008
- Iowa – #29 – Apr 24, 2009
- Vermont – #14 – Sep 1, 2009
- Maine – #23 – Sep 14, 2009
- New Hampshire – #9 – Jan 1, 2010
The back story:
In 1902, when the women’s suffrage movement was just getting warmed up, the American flag had 45 stars… In protest, the suffragists created their own US flag with only four stars, representing the four states that allowed women to vote…
Our Position:
We want the flag of equal marriage to be complete, with all 50 stars lit up. We see three ways equal marriage, as we define it, could be achieved:
- Every individual state could pass a law allowing same-sex marriage.
- The federal government could repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and allow same-sex marriage at the federal level, overriding all state-level bans.
- The term “marriage” could be removed from state and/or federal laws, turning all “marriages” into civil unions in the eyes of the government. PLUS, same-sex civil unions would need to be recognized in all 50 states or at the federal level.
- Our protest flag helps you track our progress toward completion of one of these three goals.
Via Joe.My.God and Slog.