> Although I support a political party, my van doesn't wear a bumper sticker
> advertising it.  I like the Dead, but would not want to have dancing bears
> on the back of my van.  My understanding, and the understanding
> of others I
> deal with regularly, is that the spectrum style bumper and window stickers
> have been adopted by the gay community.
>
> At the risk of sounding politically correct, I would like to
> suggest that we
> be a bit cautious in selecting this sticker.  I don't want to
> advertise this
> group or myself as being aligned with anything but our vans.  Vanagons are
> not male, female, gay, or even musically inclined.  They are inanimate,
> wonderfully (for the most part) designed, vans.

Karl,

As one of the few openly gay people on the vanagon list, let me emphatically
say that Ron's sticker number 4 is not a gay symbol.  The 'gay flag'
consists of 6 discrete colors, on a very precise top-to-bottom order: Red,
Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple.  These colors are never portrayed as a
spectrum.

For reference, see the following pages
   http://www.swade.net/swadepages/gallery/

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/scotts/bulgarians/rainbow-flag.htm
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