Artist Helps Us Celebrate Pride Month With Gorgeous Pride Moths
Rhan Hastur, an artist based in France, made some waves in the last few years with her Pride Bat collection. Recently though, she released a whole new Pride collection in time for Pride Month: Pride Moths!
The 30-year-old horror and gothic artist has managed to skillfully incorporate her love of stereotypical creepies, like bats and insects, and mash them up into beautiful Pride designs. This year, she’s pledged to donate profits from her Redbubble sales from her Pride collections to help the LGBTQIA+ Ukrainians as they are under Russian attack.
While June has increasingly become recognized as Pride Month outside of the United States, it is still not fully recognized internationally. This is because Pride celebrations take place in many other places at different times, including in the months of February, August, and September.
And although we have many Pride celebrations, and as a society made progress with Civil Rights for the LGBTQIA+ communities, we still have far to go. Especially as trans people and children have recently been targeted by conservative politicians with their policies, along with Gay people being actively erased and excluded in similar laws put in place.
So, to help support and spread awareness, we collected all of Hastur’s gorgeous Pride Moths for you to enjoy. Keep scrolling to see the 16 different Pride-Themed designs she came up with.
If any of these designs move you in some way, you can purchase them in a number of different products on Hastur’s Redbubble store. Along with representing your Pride, you also help contribute to supporting Ukrainian LGBTQIA+ people.
Pride moths for pride month! 🦋🏳️🌈
1. Lesbian Megalopyge Opercularis 2. Transgender Laothor Populi 3. Polyamorous Cosmosoma Myrodora 4. Gay Hypercompe Scribonia 5. Non-Binary Acherontia 6. Bisexual Siculodes Aurorula 7. Genderqueer Daphnis Nerii 8. Asexual Haploa Clymene 9. Agender Arctia Caja 10. Aromantic Callimorpha Dominal 11. Pansexual Deilephila Elpenor12. Intersex Dryocampa Rubicunda 13. Genderfluid Hyles Lineata 14. Pride Argema Mittrei 15. Bigender Eudryas Grata Fabricius 16. Omnisexual Automeris Io
rhan_hasturAromantic Pride Callimorpha Dominal
Aromantic people have little or no romantic attraction to others.
rhan_hasturNon-Binary Pride Acherontia Atropos
Non-binary is an umbrella term for gender identities that are not solely male or female—identities that are outside the gender binary.
rhan_hasturAsexual Pride Haploa Clymene
Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity. It may be considered a sexual orientation or the lack thereof.
rhan_hasturPolyamorous Pride Cosmosoma Myrodora
Polyamory specifically refers to people who have multiple romantic relationships at the same time. It does not mean any type of open relationship that may include more casual sexual partners. In many polyamorous relationships, each partner is aware of the other ones.
rhan_hasturGenderfluid Pride Hyles Lineata
Those who identify as gender-fluid is a gender-fluid person. Often, the term is used to mean that a person's gender expression or gender identity — essentially, their internal sense of self — changes frequently. But gender fluidity can look different for different people.
rhan_hasturAll Pride Argema Mittrei
Hastur perfectly incorporated all the Pride flag designs into the Comet moth
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Pansexual Pride Deilephila Elpenor
Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others.
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Intersex Pride Dryocampa Rubicunda
Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies".
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Lesbian Pride Megalopyge Opercularis
A lesbian is a woman who is physically and romantically attracted to other women.
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Bisexual Pride Siculodes Aurorula
Bisexual people are sexually attracted not exclusively to people of one particular gender; attracted to both men and women.
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Gay (Men Loving Men/MLM) Pride Hypercompe Scribonia
Gay is used primarily to describe being homosexual, but specifically as a label for men who love men.
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Bigender Pride Eudryas Grata Fabricius
Bigender is a label relating to a person whose sense of personal identity encompasses two genders.
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Omnisexual Pride Automeris io
People who identify as omnisexual are attracted to those of all gender identities and sexual orientations. Omnisexuality is in the category of multi-sexuality, which includes people who are attracted to more than one gender.
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Genderqueer Pride Daphnis Nerii
Genderqueer is a term relating to a person who does not subscribe to conventional gender distinctions but identifies with neither, both, or a combination of male and female genders.
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Agender Pride Arctia Caja
Agender is defined as not having a gender. Some agender people describe it as having a “lack of gender,” while others describe themselves as being gender-neutral. People often use the following words to mean more or less the same thing: genderless.
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Transgender Pride Laothor Populi
Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth.
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You can follow Rhan Hastur on Tumblr, Twitter, Artfol, and Redbubble. If you make a purchase from her Pride Collection between now and the end of June, she will donate her profits to help support the LGBTQIA+ people in Ukraine as they navigate the Russian invasion.
Be sure to share this with your loved ones to help spread the word and show your Pride and support for your local community.
