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Aleksondra Hultquist; Elizabeth J. Mathews (2016). New Perspectives on Delarivier Manley and Eighteenth Century Literature: Power, Sex, and Text. Routledge. p.123. ISBN 978-1317196921. Archived from the original on September 23, 2019 . Retrieved January 4, 2017. Various asexual communities have started to form since the impact of the Internet and social media in the mid-1990s. The most prolific and well-known of these communities is the Asexual Visibility and Education Network, which was founded in 2001 by David Jay. [4] [13] Definition, identity and relationships Queer Pride Flags to Know". The Advocate. Archived from the original on January 8, 2023 . Retrieved January 7, 2023. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u McElroy, D.R. (2020). Signs & Symbols of the World: Over 1,001 Visual Signs Explained. New York, New York: Wellfleet Press. p.198. ISBN 978-1577151869.The term bara ( 薔薇), " rose" in Japanese, has historically been used in Japan as a pejorative for men who love men, roughly equivalent to the English language term " pansy". [13] [14] :40 Beginning in the 1960s, the term was reappropriated by Japanese gay media: notably with the 1961 anthology Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses [ ja], a collection of semi-nude photographs of homosexual writer Yukio Mishima by photographer Eikoh Hosoe, [14] :34 and later with Barazoku ( 薔薇族, lit. "rose tribe") in 1971, the first commercially produced gay magazine in Asia. [15] The use of the rose as a prominent symbol of love between males is supposedly derived from the Greek myth of King Laius having affairs with boys under rose trees. [16] Since the 2000s, bara has been used by non-Japanese audience as an umbrella term to describe a wide variety of Japanese and non-Japanese gay media featuring love and sex between masculine men. [17] The rose is also the sacred flower of Eros, [18] the Greek god of love and sex, and patron of love between men. [19] Eros was responsible for the first rose to sprout on Earth, followed by every flower and herb. [20] Roses are a symbol of pederasty in ancient Greece: handsome boys were metaphorically called roses by their male admirers in homoerotic poems such as those by Solon, Straton, Meleager, Rhianus, and Philostratos. [21]

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Violets and their color became a special code used by lesbians and bisexual women. [24] [25] [26] The symbolism of the flower derives from several fragments of poems by Sappho in which she describes a lover wearing garlands or a crown with violets. [27] [28] In 1926, the play La Prisonnière by Édouard Bourdet used a bouquet of violets to signify lesbian love. [29] When the play became subject to censorship, many Parisian lesbians wore violets to demonstrate solidarity with its lesbian subject matter. [30] A white lily, the de facto symbol of the yuri genre In Matthew 19:11–12, Jesus mentions "For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others – and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven." [110] Some biblical exegetes have interpreted the "eunuchs who were born that way" as including asexuals. [110] [111] While Christianity has not directly mentioned asexuality, it has revered celibacy; the apostle Paul, writing as a celibate, has been described by some writers as asexual. [112] He writes in 1 Corinthians 7:6–9,