Artist Helps Us Celebrate Pride Month With Gorgeous Pride Moths
Rhan Hastur is turning Pride Month into something wonderfully eerie, and her latest collection is getting plenty of attention. The France-based artist, known for her gothic style and earlier Pride Bat designs, has now released a new set of Pride Moths that blend creepy-cute insects with bright LGBTQIA+ symbolism.
Hastur, who is 30, is also using the collection to give back. This year, she has pledged to donate profits from her Redbubble Pride sales to support LGBTQIA+ Ukrainians facing Russian aggression, adding even more meaning to the artwork.
With 16 designs to browse, there is a lot to admire here. Read on to see the full Pride Moth collection.
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 Elpenor 12. Intersex Dryocampa Rubicunda 13. Genderfluid Hyles Lineata 14. Pride Argema Mittrei 15. Bigender Eudryas Grata Fabricius 16. Omnisexual Automeris Io
Rhan Hastur, an artist based in France, has made waves in the last few years with her Pride Bat collection. Recently, however, she released a whole new Pride collection in time for Pride Month: Pride Moths!
The 30-year-old horror and gothic artist has skillfully incorporated her love of stereotypical creepies, like bats and insects, into beautiful Pride designs. This year, she has pledged to donate profits from her Redbubble sales from her Pride collections to help LGBTQIA+ Ukrainians as they face Russian aggression.
While June has increasingly become recognized as Pride Month outside of the United States, it is still not fully acknowledged internationally. This is because Pride celebrations take place in many other locations at different times, including in the months of February, August, and September.
Although we have many Pride celebrations and have made progress as a society regarding civil rights for LGBTQIA+ communities, we still have a long way to go. Trans individuals and children have recently been targeted by conservative politicians through their policies, while gay individuals are being actively erased and excluded by similar laws.
To help support and spread awareness, we have collected all of Hastur’s gorgeous Pride Moths for you to enjoy. Keep scrolling to see the 16 different Pride-themed designs she created.
If any of these designs resonate with you, you can purchase them in a variety of products from Hastur’s Redbubble store. By representing your Pride, you also contribute to supporting LGBTQIA+ individuals in Ukraine.
Aromantic Pride Callimorpha Dominal
Aromantic people have little or no romantic attraction to others.
Non-Binary Pride Acherontia Atropos
Non-binary is an umbrella term for gender identities that are not solely male or female—identities that exist outside the gender binary.
Asexual 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.
A few of these designs are especially hard to ignore.
Polyamorous Pride Cosmosoma Myrodora
Polyamory specifically refers to people who have multiple romantic relationships simultaneously. It does not encompass any type of open relationship that may include more casual sexual partners. In many polyamorous relationships, each partner is aware of the others.
Genderfluid Pride Hyles Lineata
A gender-fluid person is someone who identifies as gender-fluid. Often, the term is used to mean that a person's gender expression or identity—essentially, their internal sense of self—changes frequently. However, gender fluidity can manifest differently for different individuals.
All Pride Argema Mittrei
Hastur has perfectly incorporated all the Pride flag designs into the Comet moth.
Pansexual Pride Deilephila Elpenor
Pansexuality is the sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual individuals may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others.
The color combinations really do the heavy lifting here.
Intersex Pride Dryocampa Rubicunda
Intersex individuals are 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."
Lesbian Pride Megalopyge Opercularis
A lesbian is a woman who is physically and romantically attracted to other women.
Bisexual Pride Siculodes Aurorula
Bisexual individuals are sexually attracted not exclusively to people of one particular gender; they are attracted to both men and women.
Gay (Men Loving Men/MLM) Pride Hypercompe Scribonia
Gay is primarily used to describe being homosexual, specifically as a label for men who love men.
There is no mistaking the Pride inspiration in this set.
Bigender Pride Eudryas Grata Fabricius
Bigender is a label relating to a person whose sense of personal identity encompasses two genders.
Omnisexual Pride Automeris io
Individuals who identify as omnisexual are attracted to those of all gender identities and sexual orientations. Omnisexuality falls under the category of multi-sexuality, which includes people attracted to more than one gender.
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.
Agender Pride Arctia Caja
Agender is defined as not having a gender. Some agender individuals describe it as having a "lack of gender," while others describe themselves as being gender-neutral. People often use the following terms to mean more or less the same thing: genderless.
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 they were assigned at birth.
You can follow Rhan Hastur on Tumblr, Twitter, 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 LGBTQIA+ individuals 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.
These moths are impossible to scroll past.
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