Dominican Republic Gay Flag

Overview

The white cross of the Dominican flag is kept full length in both arms and the national coat of arms is kept at the centre, while the four quarters, blue and red on the national flag, become six rainbow stripes running from hoist edge to fly edge. Tomislav Todorović described the design on Flags of the World, distinguishing it from Giónver Castillo Santana's Dominican gay flag of 2012 and recording that Gomes kept the rainbow's own stripe order where Castillo counterchanged it to match the national colours. ^[1] Todorović states that no real-life use of the Gomes design has been recorded.

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

LGBTQ

National Context

Dominican Republic

Creators

The Creator

Attribution notes

This flag is one of the designs on the national page, and it carries the symbol Gomes placed before a flag name to mark a design as his own rather than one he catalogued. ^[2] His publication, that marking convention and his reuse terms are set out in the creator record below.

Origin

Digital Origin

Gay Journey (gayjourney.com)

Origin Type

creation place unknown; published online

Physical Origin Status

Not documented.

Represents the Dominican Republic. The design was not made there: it was published through a McKinney, Texas post-office address and the place it was drawn is not documented. ^[2]

The flag represents the Dominican Republic. Where it was made is not documented. The design was published through Gay Journey (gayjourney.com), run from American Dimensions, PO Box 573, McKinney, Texas, which is a mailing address for the publisher and not evidence of where Gomes lived or worked. No source located places Gomes in the Dominican Republic or identifies him as a resident or community member there. ^[2]

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

2002

Published online

Published online by 2002; the collection ran to 2011. No physical use documented.

Creation Bounds

Four different things are recorded here and they are not the same date. The copyright range on Gay Journey begins in 2002, and the site's flag section is in the Internet Archive from 28 October 2002, which bounds the collection rather than this design. ^[2] Collection-level publication is documented from outside the sites twice: Francisco Santos described GayJourney.COM on Flags of the World on 14 May 2003 as carrying "lots of rainbows: from Argentina to Wales, EU, UNO, US states, Canadian provinces and general gay flags," and Richard Knipel wrote again on 14 June 2004. Neither report lists or dates an individual flag. ^[3] Direct documentation of this individual design has not been dated. No source dates the design itself, and no flag in the collection carries a date of its own. The year given is the earliest year the collection is documented in publication.

Lineage

Direct predecessors

Rainbow Pride Flag

Sibling flags

Alberta Gay Flag, Straight Ally Pride Flag, Anarcha-Queer Flag (rainbow variant), Argentina Gay Flag, Australia Gay Flag, Brazil Gay Flag

+ 44 more

British Columbia Gay Flag, Canadian Pride Flag, Chicago Pride Flag (Rainbow Stripes, Purple Stars), Chile Gay Flag, Egypt Gay Flag, European Union Gay Flag, France Gay Flag, Gay Pride Flag of Pakistan, Heteroflexible Pride Flag, Heterosexual / Straight Pride Flag, Homoflexible Pride Flag, India Gay Flag, Italy Gay Flag, Japan Gay Flag, Jewish Gay Pride Flag, Manitoba Gay Flag, Mexico Gay Flag, Netherlands Gay Flag, New Brunswick Gay Flag, Newfoundland Gay Flag, Northwest Territories Gay Flag, Nova Scotia Gay Flag, Nunavut Gay Flag, Ontario Gay Flag, Palestinian Gay Pride Flag, Panama Gay Flag, Philadelphia Pride Flag, Prince Edward Island Gay Flag, Quebec Gay Flag, Rainbow Flag with White Triangle (Sapporo), Rainbow Israel Flag, Rainbow Polish Flag (2014, Angela Getler), Russia Gay Flag, Saskatchewan Gay Flag, Social Justice Pride Flag, South African Gay Pride Flag, Switzerland Gay Flag, Tanzania Gay Flag, Texas Rainbow Flag, Turkish Gay Pride Flag, Two-Spirit Pride Flag (2005, Zoccole), Two-Spirit Pride Flag (2016 Tumblr documentation), Victory Over AIDS Flag (1980s, designer unknown), Yukon Territory Gay Flag

Lineage confidence

high

Two visual sources, one of which the lineage graph can hold and one of which it cannot. The six-stripe Rainbow Pride Flag is a direct Pride-flag parent and is registered as one. The Flag of the Dominican Republic is the second visual source, and it is recorded as a structured source-flag relationship in Design rather than as a graph node, because the graph accepts only Encycloflaggia entries and no Pride entry should be invented to create one. The relationship here is: source flag with fields replaced by rainbow stripes. Flags of the World describes the method this whole class of flag follows as "taking an existing flag and 'merging' it with the Rainbow Flag or various GLBT symbols to represent GLBT members of the group the existing flag represents." ^[3] The other Gomes flags are siblings by collection rather than by descent: one designer, one operation, four series published together under one set of terms. A shared designer is a collection relationship and not a substitute for parentage.

Lineage tree

Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 4 records across 4 generations.

Ancestors -3

Original Rainbow Flag (1978)

Ancestors -2

Seven-Stripe Rainbow Flag (1978)

Ancestor

Rainbow Pride Flag

This record

Dominican Republic Gay Flag

Colors & Symbolism

No published statement of meaning has been located.

The page gives the flags names and nothing more. ^[2]

Placement: the six stripes fill all four quarters and are interrupted only by the cross. The coat of arms keeps its own colours, and is the only place blue and red survive. These are working values sampled from the surviving artwork at the centre of each band, not published specifications; the collection-level note on the recurring Gomes rainbow values is carried in the creator record rather than repeated on each flag.

Design

Aspect Ratio

2:3 · apparent

Ratio Notes

Measured from the recovered artwork, 440 by 298 pixels. The page does not list this file's size, so the copy held here is identified by its filename and its position on the page. Published as apparent: measured from a served thumbnail, not from a specification.

Orientation

horizontal

Center Symbol

the Dominican coat of arms

Additional Symbols

white cross of the national flag, both arms full length, shield quartered blue and red by a white cross, gold cross above an open book, staffs and lances radiating from behind the shield, green branches flanking the shield, blue-violet scroll above the shield, red scroll below the shield with dark lettering

Not described in any located source. The recovered artwork is 440 by 298 pixels. The page does not state this file's size, so the copy held here is identified by its filename and its position on the page. A description drawn from the artwork itself has not yet been written. ^[2] Observed in the artwork: Blue and red are absent from the field. They survive only inside the coat of arms. The rainbow stripes run continuously across both sides of the cross, so the four separate quarters of the national flag read as three bands above the cross arm and three below it. The image measures 440 by 298 pixels, a ratio of about 1.48:1, against the national flag's 8:5. It is not documented whether this is deliberate or an artefact of the rendering. The image limits what can be established: The coat of arms is roughly 80 pixels across. The motto on the blue-violet scroll is not legible at all. The red scroll's lettering resolves only approximately, consistent with REPUBLICA DOMINICANA but not readable letter by letter. Elements of the shield beyond the gold cross, the open book and the flanking staffs cannot be distinguished. The design is described from the recovered artwork, not from any source that describes it.

No proportion, construction sheet or specification has been located. ^[2]

The white cross of the Dominican flag is kept, its vertical arm centred and running the full height and its horizontal arm centred and running the full width. The four quarters, blue and red on the national flag, are replaced by six equal horizontal stripes that run from hoist edge to fly edge, interrupted only where the vertical arm crosses them: red, orange and yellow above the horizontal arm and green, blue and violet below it. The national coat of arms is kept at the centre, drawn on the white cross and extending a little above and below the horizontal arm. Within the arms are a shield quartered blue and red by a white cross, a gold cross above an open gold book, staffs and lances radiating to either side, green branches flanking the shield, a blue-violet scroll above and a red scroll below carrying dark lettering.

Source flag and visual comparison

Source flag

Flag of the Dominican Republic

Jurisdiction

the Dominican Republic

Relationship

source flag with fields replaced by rainbow stripes

Elements retained

the white cross, both arms at full length, and the national coat of arms at the crossing

Elements altered

the four quarters, two blue and two red on the national flag, all replaced by six rainbow stripes running edge to edge; blue and red survive on the flag only inside the arms

The Dominican flag is a white cross quartering a blue and red field with the arms at the centre. Todorović records that Gomes repainted the upper quarters red, orange and yellow and the lower quarters green, blue and violet, keeping the rainbow flag's own stripe order, where Castillo's later design counterchanged the order so each rainbow stripe matched the national colour it replaced. ^[1]

Usage & Adoption

Current Status

unknown

No physical use has been documented. Todorović, describing the design on Flags of the World, records "no evidence of real-life use so far." ^[1]

Image Archive

Source Flag and Visual Comparison

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

original artwork recovered

• Dominican Republic gay flag as published by Greg Gomes on the Gay Journey national page. · Credit: Design by Greg Gomes, Gay Journey · Gay Journey, National Gay Flags Of The WorldRights Gay Journey identified the marked designs as Gomes's property and asked that reuse be credited to him and linked back to gay_flags.htm. The credit and the link here are placed to those terms as published; the present rights and contact status have not been independently verified. ^[2]
• Flag of the Dominican Republic (the Dominican Republic), the source flag for this design. The Dominican flag is a white cross quartering a blue and red field with the arms at the centre. Todorović records that Gomes repainted the upper quarters red, orange and yellow and the lower quarters green, blue and violet, keeping the rainbow flag's own stripe order, where Castillo's later design counterchanged the order so each rainbow stripe matched the national colour it replaced. ^[1] Relationship: source flag with fields replaced by rainbow stripes. Retained: the white cross, both arms at full length, and the national coat of arms at the crossing. Altered: the four quarters, two blue and two red on the national flag, all replaced by six rainbow stripes running edge to edge; blue and red survive on the flag only inside the arms. · Credit: Juan Pablo Duarte (design); SVG by Wikimedia Commons contributors · Wikimedia CommonsRights Public domain. Wikimedia Commons marks this file with an insignia restriction: it depicts a flag, coat of arms, seal or other official insignia whose use is restricted in many countries independently of copyright. Reproduced here as a comparison for the Gomes design, not as a representation of any government.