Gay dragon

From the University of Michigan Fantasy and Science Fiction website, in its symbolism dictionary under Dragon:

The dragon is a highly complex symbol, combining images of the serpent and the bird, two loaded images in isolation. But gay dragons, often in rainbow, might pop up anywhere (as in #1).

[Vocabulary notes.

— (relatively) transparent verb homoize ‘make gay’

— verb cicurate (< Lat. cicur ‘tame’) ‘to tame, to domesticate, to render mild or harmless: in OED2, but marked Obsolete; cites only from the 17th and early 18th centuries; I find it ornamental

— adj.

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By the way...:
Have fun fellow gay dragons! In Blake it represents sex and war, and in Yeats it is a guardian of life. Dragon blood is a talisman, ensuring good fortune, health and luck, can inflict incurable wounds if weapons are dipped in it.

Background 3. They are often said to have ravenous appetites and to live in caves, where they hoard treasure.

Not only do gay dragons belong here to support for the other commnities of homosexuals and/or dragons alike, but at the same time, contribute to places that go against people and places against homosexuals! The artist’s personal notes on the piece, from the Deviant Art site:

I have been unsure about posting a pride picture in previous years — I’ve been a little unsure how to categorise my own orientation for starters, and although I realise that the prejudice of others has affected how I view myself and influenced me to act certain ways in attempts to be seen as “normal” in the past, it still felt like it wasn’t “my parade”, and that making something around it would be… intruding or butting in.

However, I have quite a few friends who are gay, trans, or queer in some way though, and some have gone through particularly hard times because of that — and with how things have been going in America these past few years I felt important to make something to show solidarity.

Flags from right to left: gay+, pan, transgender, nonbinary, bisexual, asexual.

Also, although I couldn’t fit every pride flag in, see if you can spot references to other flags I’ve included in the colours of these dragons.

The concept for this one was suggested by my friend otarrato.deviantart.com this was going to be a collab but he has had a particularly hard time lately, so instead I’m dedicating this picture to him.