Tag: leather pride flag

The flag was designed by Tony DeBlase, a well-known activist who died in 2000, and presented as a "proposed design idea" on May 28, 1989 at International Mr. Leather in Chicago on May 28, 1989.According to Chicago-based Leather Archives & Museum, the design was immediately embraced and began appearing in parades within a month of its introduction, and turned up in shops as a bumper sticker barely two months later.The flag is composed of nine horizontal stripes of equal width. From the...