#panplatonic
here’s a little infographic i made for pan visibility day!!!!! hope y’all are having a pleasant day, i’m baking y’all virtual cookies of your preferred flavor
(sources/further reading: history,flag,statistics,representation)
image description under the cut:
[ID: A light grey background with pan flag colors in the corner. The top reads, “Happy Pan Visibility Day” in all caps, party emojis on both sides of it. Black text in the center reads:
What/Who: Pan Visibility Day, on May 24, is to celebrate and encourage acceptance and understanding of pan people and identity (such as pansexual, panromantic, pansensual, panalterous, panaesthetic, and panplatonic).
Brief History: In the 1960s-1980s, pansexual was often used to describe musicians, icons, styles, lyrics, movements, etc. in particularly the glitter/glam rock scene, to indicate androgyny, fluidity, and universal appeal.
In the 1980s-1990s, pansexual was often used in kink communities to indicate that an event, party, club, person, sex, etc. was open to people of all genders, sexes, and sexualities.
Evolving with and from that, pansexual now widely represents an attraction to people of all genders, or more specifically, attraction to people regardless of gender.
Flag: The pan flag was created in 2010 by Jasper (@shrikeabyssals); “pink and blue, because of their gendered traditions, and yellow, a generally non-gendered colour, to represent nonbinary folks etc.”
Statistics: Pansexuals experience high rates of depression, suicidality, anxiety, and physical and sexual harassment and violence, as well as low rates of happiness, self-esteem, optimism, being out, safety, inclusion, sense of belonging and community, and accessing health care.
Celebrities: Yungblud, Janelle Monáe, Sandra Mae Frank, Jake Choi, Bob the Drag Queen, Tess Holliday, Talia Hibbert, Rina Sawayama, Asia Kate Dillon.
TV/Film/Podcast: What We Do in the Shadows, Lucifer, Gossip Girl, Schitt’s Creek, The Thing About Harry, Sex Education, Single Parents, The Umbrella Academy, Otherwhere.
Comics/Books/Games: Deadpool, We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen, Red Sonja, Vampirella, Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly, Mae Borowski, Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan, Cute Mutants by S.J. Whitby. End ID.]
ALTlet’s not forget that may 24th is pan visibility day! and let’s also not forget that we all deserve to love and be proud of ourselves!
