The lipstick lesbian flag was introduced in 2010 in the weblog This Lesbian Life. The color violet became associated with lesbians via the poetry of Sappho.
Some lesbians reclaimed this symbol as gay men reclaimed the pink triangle (many lesbians also reclaimed the pink triangle although lesbians were not included in Paragraph 175 of the German criminal code). Women considered asocial by Nazi Germany for not conforming to the Nazi ideal of a woman, which included homosexual females, were condemned to concentration camps and wore an inverted black triangle badge to identify them. In the 1970s it was adopted as a symbol of empowerment by the lesbian feminist community.
Among its functions, the labrys was associated as a weapon used by the Amazons of mythology. The design involves a labrys, a type of double-headed axe, superimposed on the inverted black triangle, set against a violet background. The labrys lesbian flag was created in 1999 by graphic designer Sean Campbell, and published in June 2000 in the Palm Springs edition of the Gay and Lesbian Times Pride issue.
