Gaysper

Gaysper
Image of Gaysper
First appearanceVox official Twitter account
Based onAndroid 5.0 ghost emoji
In-universe information
AffiliationLGBT movement
Part of the LGBTQ series
LGBTQ symbols
      
Symbols
Pride flags

Gaysper is an LGBT symbol based on the ghost emoji (U+1F47B, "đŸ‘»") of Android 5.0. It is a modification of the original icon that uses a background with the colors of the rainbow flag. It became popular in Spain from April 2019 following a tweet posted on the official account of the populist far-right party Vox, after which a multitude of users belonging to the LGBT movement began to use it as a symbol.[1][2] The icon has established itself as an example of the phenomenon of reappropriation of elements of the anti-LGBT discourse in contemporary society through social networks.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Un año de Gaysper" (in Spanish). Shangay. 2020-07-05. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  2. ^ Vox (28 April 2019). "¥Qué comience la batalla! #PorEspaña (tuit)". Twitter (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  3. ^ CantĂł, Pablo (2019-04-29). "CĂłmo el 'fantasma LGTB' que asusta a Vox se ha convertido en un icono gay" (in Spanish). El PaĂ­s (Verne). Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  4. ^ Bonfill, Anna Zaera; GimĂ©nez, Yolanda Tortajada; GĂĄlvez, Antonio Caballero (2021-02-03). "La reapropiaciĂłn del insulto como resistencia queer en el universo digital: el caso Gaysper". Investigaciones Feministas (in Spanish). 12 (1): 103–113. doi:10.5209/infe.69684. hdl:10115/34401. ISSN 2171-6080. S2CID 234065914. Retrieved 2021-06-08.