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25 Jun, 6 tweets, 2 min read
On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag flew for the first time, at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Hoisting the flag in 1978. ...
It can be hard to make out all the colours in contemporary photos from the time, but the original rainbow flag designed by Gilbert Baker consisted of eight colour stripes. Rainbow flags flying at San...
There was meaning attached to each of the colours in the rainbow flag: pink for sex; red for life; orange for healing; yellow for sunlight; green for nature; turquoise for magic and art; indigo for serenity; and violet for spirit.
(the pink stripe disappeared from the flag shortly after it first flew due to a shortage in pink fabric; and indigo and violet were combined into a purple in between the two hues a few years later to make an even number of stripes)
This year, one of the original 1978 flags was found and is now on display at the GLBT Historical Society museum in San Francisco, where you can see the eight stripes in all their glory! The flag displayed in the G...
In our collection of Pride flag stickers, we've included the original eight-stripe design, as well as the modern six stripes and other recent variants. What's your favourite? (reminder: 10% off entire collection with the code HAPPYPRIDE this month!) bit.ly/PrideVM

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A very happy birthday to entertainer Josephine Baker, born on this day in 1906. Baker had a huge list of achievements including being a French Resistance agent, a civil rights activist and the first black woman to star in a major movie. She also might have dated Frida Kahlo.
Although she was born in the USA, much of Baker's career took place in Europe due to racism in the country of her birth. In France, she was the most successful American entertainer.
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1 Jun
Joking aside, we'd like to take a moment to talk about how basic anatomical words like "vagina" get caught up in algorithms as obscene (and the very real struggle we face every day)
Organisations like us, who deal with gynaecological health and/or sex education, are constantly getting flagged by digital platforms and struggle with making ourselves heard. We live in a world where stigma and shame are a very real thing.
In the digital world, many moderation processes are automated. We've moved on a little from "the Scunthorpe problem", where an English town was blocked by rude word filters because it has one in the middle of it... But not by much.
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HAPPY SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY! Here at the VM, we love a good pun, but Will was the master of pussy puns. Today, we'd like to be the cool English teacher sitting backwards on the chair, and present to you an annotated guide to some of the Bard's best sneaked-in vagina jokes...
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The word of the day is "mittelschmerz". Literally "middle pain", it's a feeling of pain when you ovulate. It happens about 14 days before your period, and about 20% of people report it happening occasionally or usually.
Mittelschmerz is felt in your lower abdomen as a sharp twinge or dull cramp. In some people it only lasts a minute, while others might feel it for a day or two. Sometimes you'll be able to notice which ovary it's coming from, as the pain will be towards one side.
It's usually not severely painful - if ovulation is very painful for you, see a doctor as it might be a symptom of endometriosis, or scarring from surgery or an STI.
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Meet Realdo Colombo. In 1559, this Italian anatomist claimed to have discovered the clitoris, then promptly died (for unrelated reasons)
We'll start by saying that obviously, Colombo didn't discover the clitoris. Anyone with one probably noticed it was there, since it's RIGHT THERE.
It also wasn't like Colombo was the first anatomist to point out the clitoris - it was known since antiquity among Greek, Persian and Arabic anatomists, on account of it being RIGHT THERE.
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