Throughout history, LGBTQ communities have used the subtle language of flowers to broadcast solidarity or personal identity
Flowers have their own vast language, communicating love, disdain and everything in between. Throughout history, LGBTQ communities have also used the subtle language of flowers to broadcast solidarity or personal identity, all through something as simple as a bloom pinned to a lapel. Many of these flowers have deep connections to queer icons or are echoed in other queer symbols.
” Her lush symbolism of violets and other purple flowers has persisted through the years, with depictions of Sappho often showing the poet adorned with purple blooms. Like lavender, violets emerged again as a symbol of queerness at the turn of the 20th century, thanks to groups of women in Paris who oversaw a resurgence of interest in Sappho’s work.
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