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It partly depends on the material on which they are applied, as seen on the Bear Manufacturing company products. The color shades of the International Bear Brotherhood Flag seem not to be entirely fixed and they do vary somewhat. Considering all that, it is obvious that the complete story of the flag origins is yet to be compiled.
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Neither of the pages says nothing about that change nor the reasons for it, although it obviously must have been done just before the tailoring part of work. Curiously, that photo is preceeded by the images of all four variants, where black paw prints were shown on green cantons again. These four images are also shown on the Bear Manufacturing company website but there is also a photo of all four prototypes hoisted together for voting, which shows that both flags with the green canton were eventually created with the brown paw prints, not black as were originally meant. The other two variants have had the opposite color order, one with a black paw print on a green canton and the other with a brown paw print over the stripes only. On two variants, the color order was as given above, both with a black paw print, one of them putting it on a green canton. According to Witzkoske, Byrnes' original idea was a flag with six stripes only and a brown paw print on green canton, while Witzkoske has derived it into four variants, all with seven stripes in the following colors (names as given by him): brown, rust, gold, cream, white, gray, and black. The colors represent the fur colors and nationalities of bears throughout the world and was designed with inclusivity in mind.Īt this page another story about the origins of the flag is presented by Paul Witzkoske, the man who was asked by Craig Byrnes to create the templates for the four original proposed variants of the International Bear Brotherhood Flag. The winning design is a field of simple horizontal stripes with a paw print in the upper left corner - a layout familiar to anyone who has seen the leather pride flag. Four variations were sewing machine constructed and Craig won approval to display the four 3 ft x 5 ft prototype flags at the Chesapeake Bay Bears "Bears of Summer" events in July of 1995. Craig thought it might be fitting to design a flag that would best represent the bear community and include it with the results of his research. The newer flag with black paw mark on canton of a striped flag of seven "bear colors" seems to have replaced it and all other variants and proposals.īyrnes Craig's undergraduate degree in psychology involved designing a senior project about the bear culture that has exploded since the early 1980s, of which he had first-hand experience. I saw it in Munich, during the CSD (Christopher Street Day) Parade. This flag seems to be the most popular of the "bear pride flags" now. Also in Europe the Bear Pride Flag prevails more and more. The bear paw in the left upper corner makes additionally clear, for whom the friendship and affection is. It symbolizes the different colours of bear furs. The Bear Pride Flag is an idea from the USA, as many gay symbols. The flag consists of seven horizontal stripes (a reference to the gay pride flag?) of supposedly ursine colours: brown, light brown, very light brown, very light yellow, white, grey and black on the upper hoist, a bear pawprint spanning over four stripes. They are usually seen tacked to the wall or flown just inside the door at bars, nightclubs, and conventions which cater to that type of clientele. The Bear Flag ("bears" being gay men with an appreciation for hirsute partners) is displayed more discretely than the rainbow gay pride flag. History of the Bear Flag (and of other sexual identity flags).Image by António Martins, 3 February 2001 Keywords: bear | footprint | fur | paw | byrnes (craig) | bear paw |
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