The rubber pride flag, also known as the latex pride flag is a symbol used by members of the rubber and latex fetish community

Latex and PVC fetishism

Latex fetishism is the fetishistic attraction to people wearing latex clothing or, in certain cases, to the garments themselves. PVC fetishism and rubber fetishism are closely related to latex fetish, with the former referring to shiny clothes made of the synthetic plastic polyvinyl chloride and...

. It was designed in 1994 by Peter Tolos and Scott Moats. The rubber pride flag is similar to the leather pride flag

Leather Pride flag

The Leather Pride Flag is a symbol used by the leather subculture since the 1990s. It was designed by Tony DeBlase in 1989, and was quickly embraced by the gay Leather community. It has since become associated with Leather in general and also with related groups.-History:The flag was designed by...

, as a symbol representing the community.

Design

The flag was designed by Tolos and Moats in 1994, "as a means to identifying like-minded men and reflects the sensory, sensual, and mental passion we have for rubber."

The flags has three colours: black

Black

Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light...

, red

Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared , and cannot be seen by the naked eye...

 and yellow

Yellow

Yellow is the color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M cone cells of the retina about equally, with no significant stimulation of the S cone cells. Light with a wavelength of 570–590 nm is yellow, as is light with a suitable mixture of red and green...

. The black represents "our lust for the look and feel for shiny black rubber." The red represents "our blood passion for rubber and rubbermen." The yellow represents "our drive for intense rubber play and fantasies." The chevron is meant to represent kinkiness

Kink (sexual)

In human sexuality, kinkiness and kinky are terms used to refer to a playful usage of sexual concepts in an accentuated, and unambiguously expressive form....

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See also

• Leather pride flag
  Leather Pride flag
  The Leather Pride Flag is a symbol used by the leather subculture since the 1990s. It was designed by Tony DeBlase in 1989, and was quickly embraced by the gay Leather community. It has since become associated with Leather in general and also with related groups.-History:The flag was designed by...
  
  
• Rainbow flag
• Bisexual pride flag
  Bisexual pride flag
  The bisexual pride flag was designed by Michael Page in 1998 in order to give the bisexual community its own symbol comparable to the Gay pride flag of the larger LGBT community...
  
  
• Folsom Street Fair
  Folsom Street Fair
  The Folsom Street Fair is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's "Leather Pride Week"...
  
  
• The Triskelion