Hello! We'll be doing a rainbow lights project for Louis' show in Vancouver on June 26! It'll happen during All This time and into She Is Beauty, We Are World Class, aka the megamix. Reach out if you're willing to help out and we might have something for you. :) Follow this blog and reblog, please!
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TODAY’S ACTION : Make a rainbow wave for OTRA Boston!
Help make Boston the most colorful show yet, and show your pride and support of LGBTQ+ fans, at the show or at home!
IF YOU’RE GOING TO THE SHOW:
- If you haven’t yet, sign up for bringing rainbow to the show.
- Bring your rainbows and/or other pride gear and show them off with pride.
- Meet other Rainbow Directioners and celebrate who you are together.
- Participate in the Rainbow Light fan action, info here and here
- Post pics and stories on social media, tagging #RainbowWaveBoston and #RainbowDirection
Here is where you can find rainbow flags for the show:
- Closest to Gilette Stadium: Franklin Flags 480 Union Street Franklin, MA 02038 -
- When you’re coming to Gilette from east of Boston: Eagleflag in 166 KING ST COHASSET MA 02025
- When you’re driving down from the North to Gilette: Arlington Flags & Banners 110A Massachusetts Avenue Arlington, MA 02474
- If you come across Provincetown on your travel to Gilette: Provincetown Human Rights Campaign Store 209-211 Commercial Street, Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657
And you can download print versions of the Rainbow Heart and the YMMS flag
There is a meet up planned for this show, Info and meeting point
Lots of people are giving out rainbows - printed YMMS signs, stickers etc - at the meet up, so make sure to stop by!
IF YOU’RE JOINING IN FROM HOME:
- Have your own rainbow party (dress up in pride gear, make rainbow muffins, take pictures of everything rainbow in your home, or anything else you can come up with) and share on social media
- Post pics and stories on social media, tagging #RainbowWaveBoston and #RainbowDirection
- Retweet, reblog, regram and otherwise spread the word. Let’s flood the tags with rainbows and watch the wave build!
Let’s make a #RainbowWaveBoston!
Always thought it was Rainbow Direction from the beginning! Now we know!
I just made it home from the show, and from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank everyone who boosted the rainbow lights project for Matilda, participated tonight or volunteered to help hand out papers. Im incredible grateful to the leaders of the project on twitter for having this idea and working so so hard on the papers for tonight and organizing so many volunteers. I’m so overwhelmed by how great it turned out, and what it felt like to be in the room, surrounded by a rainbow, to a song that is so special to me (and to so many of you).
I want to go and reblog everything, but I’ve got to gear up for night 2 and get things sorted for tomorrow! I’ll post a video here for everyone to enjoy if you haven’t seen some already (and maybe a few other videos in another post too!)
Thank you thank you thank you! 🌈🥰🏳️🌈
PS if you have twitter, feel free to drop some love to the lights up project team. They were so sweet to us and worked so hard, and since Harry didn’t perform it tonight, they didn’t get to see their project come to life 😞
Okay, so it’s been a few days and I wanted to do a little wrap up addition to this post about the Rainbow Lights Project for Matilda that we did for both nights that Harry was here.
First off - night 2 was a great success just like night 1 (WHEW!)
Here’s videos focusing on Harry during Matilda: Night 1 and thanks to @jaerie Night 2 (start at 1:42). I’m SO SO SO appreciative of having videos of Harry during the song to look back on (and tear up a bit at). Hearing Harry’s little thank you, seeing his face take in the crowd a few times, perhaps with a little extra sheen in his eyes, so special!
Here are some videos that show the arena: Night 1, Night 2, Night 2, the lovely @medicinehrry’s video are just a few!
Some local radio stations captured the project and commented about it x, x, the arena posted about it, Much Music did too on Tik Tok - it was so sweet!
The lovely Madi Diaz, who opened for Harry, chose to post a picture of herself watching Harry during the project when she thanked Toronto for the warm welcome.
Now with all that recapping done, I just really want to share my thanks once again for everyone who helped support the project. Your reblogs to boost the project, everyone there who decided to actually throw that paper up in front of their phone, the volunteers who helped pass out papers on your concert night - THANK YOU!
I want to take a moment for a few special thank you’s also. To @takemehomefromnarnia . All that wonderful history helping to encourage fans to create safe spaces at concerts including creating projects like these have left a legacy that endures. Your “how-to” posts were SO helpful and really let this project be a success.
Speaking of fandom history, while I don’t know which group made the rainbow lights project for Sweet Creature happen in Toronto in 2018, I also want to share my thanks to them. Being in the arena that night and experiencing one of these projects LIVE made me SOOOO want to see it happen again. Two people involved in that project popped by while me and my project buddies were handing out papers to volunteers, but I didn’t have the chance to speak to them (I was passing out papers) before they were off. So if you happen to be on here, please know that your project left a true mark that helped make this one happen!
And on the lines of making things happen, every project needs a spark and that fire definitely came from @lhrry and her passion for @rainbowsforlightsup. Agnes, your incredible passion and cheerleading to help bring the pride back to Harry’s concerts got me fired up and wanting to see this come to life in Canada too. After all, it had been 4 years for us since the last shows in our country and I so wanted to pick up where we left off in 2018. Your excitement made me hunt out to see if anyone was doing a rainbow lights project. When I found a group on twitter kicking one off for Matilda, at the time they were just starting and encouraging people to bring papers. I knew from past shows that if we really wanted to have a BIG RAINBOW in the arena, we’d have to take it to the next level and bring papers ourselves. And so I thought about it - and then I’d see Agnes post. And I hummed about it - and Agnes would post again. And I started to look into it - and BAM - another post. And before I knew it, I was messaging the group on twitter being like “soooooo, if I cut 19,000 papers out for the arena, will you guys be cool with that? Will you help find volunteers to pass them out?” and not only were they cool with it - they were like “what if we cut out 19,000 papers too and we go for both nights?” And from there the rest is history!
So last, but not least, I must thank the twitter crew of 2 behind the project. It was their first Harry show and boy oh boy did they bring the energy to make these shows ones to remember! Without their idea and their incredible hard work, this simply would not have happened. All the recruitment, engagement with fans on multiple platforms, non-stop messaging, and can-do get-it-done attitude we would have been no where. I cannot thank them enough for the project, and for letting me jump in and do this with them!
So I think that wraps things up. Matilda has been a song that connected to me from the first listen and the elements that lean into creating a space of your own in time, a family of your making however you want to define that, just resonated for me and immediately felt aligned with safe spaces and found families and Queer spaces. Being in an arena of 19,000 people creating a rainbow to that song will stay with me all of my life.
One last thing to add - on tik tok, one of my project leaders video of the first night rainbow has now been viewed over 1 million times! Incredible!!!
Thank you for the shoutout! Thank you for chosing a song that matches our rainbow power. So glad to see the project was successful!
Anonymous asked:
Hey:) hope you're having a good day, as a queer individual, I'm so grateful and appreciate what you do.
I recently came across a bunch of comments made by Liam (or his twitter acc) about family values and pride flags at concerts etc. I know the pride flags comment was made around 2014 when rainbow direction was getting bigger and more ppl were showing up to concerts with pride flags. it was days before harry picked up a pride flag for the first time.
I was wondering wether Liam's comments had any affect on the lgbtq+ community of the fandom, the confidence in bringing flags to concerts, how'd did it feel and what are your thoughts on it
Hi and thanks for sharing your appreciation, it means a lot.
Just thought I'd answer this so as not to leave any open tasks in the inbox while on hiatus ;-)
You can find Takemehomefromnarnia's responses of to the "family values" tweet of January 2014, and to Liam's reaction to the massive fall out from that incident here and here. And some reactions by LGBTQ+ fans here and here. In short we spoke up about our anger at those tweets - and then it died down. This was before Rainbow Direction, so you can safely say it didn't mess with our confidence in bringing flags to concerts. If anything, it made clear the necessity of an action like the one Kat was concocting in her head at the time (because the brainstorming between her, Li and Ellis that eventually crystallized the project hadn't even happened by then)
Liam's comments in Attitude, had a completely different impact, for a number of reasons. Not talking about his sort-of apology for the Duck Dynasty incident of a year and a half earlier here, but about the "pride flags are about Louis and Harry and it's nuts" comment.
First of all, it wasn't an off hand comment on Twitter, but a cover interview for Attitude magazine, one of the biggest publications of our own community, which we had been very excited about. We had high hopes, not in the least because Harry had picked up a pride flag in Buffalo and in Montreal.
Secondly, while the name was never mentioned, the comments about the flags were directly targeted directly at Rainbow Direction, which by then had brought hundreds of pride flags and rainbows to dozens of concerts and which was starting to get quite a bit of press attention for it (Attitude itself had covered us in March of that year and Kat had just been interviewed by MTV).
Thirdly, it didn't recognize Rainbow Direction for what it was, a project meant to support LGBTQ+ fans which deliberately stayed out of the shipping wars, and it explicitly framed RD as a shipping thing, painting it as nuts.
It was a very harmful comment to the LGBTQ+ fan community, as it completely delegitimized what we were doing and made it seem disingenuous. It questioned not only our motives behind Rainbow Direction, but every LGBTQ+ fans' motive in bringing a rainbow flag, a flag expressing their personal identity, to a show - putting it aside as "not really about your identity but about something else". I still fume when I think about how harmful that was. In essence, the comment called into question whether the people in Rainbow Direction were "really LGBTQ+" (for the record: all of the founders are, almost of all of us involved as volunteerswere/are). In short: in terms of impact, it was a really harmful thing to do, and it hurt a lot of LGBTQ+ people.
The fact that the comment was made in one of "our" magazines, that was asking about whether the change of laws in the US had liberated fans made it so much more hurtful.
But it didn't stop us, and it definitely didn't stop us from bringing flags. To the contrary.
- We responded to the rumors immediately and when the interview came out officially, we published a press release to correct the image Liam had spun in Attitude. We also wrote several letters to Attitude to correct what had been said, referring them also to their own article about us from March 2015.
- We immediately rallied to make the next show on tour the most rainbow filled one to date and launched the #bostonrainbowwave action. Two goals, our first #rainbowlights project trying to turn the Gilette stadium into a full rainbow of lights, and to make Boston the show with the most participants bringing rainbow flags (at least on the US side). People could also participate from home and turn their icon into a literal rainbow wave for Boston.
- If you go to the TMHFN archive for September 2015 you will find the many supportive reactions by fans LGBTQ+ and other in response to the Attitude comments and our actions for Boston. It really created a very positive vibe and strong commitment to make the shows even more rainbow filled
- At least six Youtubers made videos in our support after this happened (unfortunately some didn't understand our no shipping policy so there are some references to Harry/Louis/Larry on one or two posters featured in these videos, but not matter, it didn't stop people from bringing and featuring rainbows is the message - and unfortunately 3 of them are no longer up but you can see the rest here)
The moderate success of the #rainbowlights action in Boston led to an attempt to organize rainbow lights project for the entire UK tour, some with more success than others, but it's the Boston action that eventually inspired the rainbow lights projects during SOTT at Harry's first solo tour in 2018, and the #turnforestrainbow project for Nial's gig in Brussels that year. And these in turn inspired the rainbow lights for OTB during Louis' tour this year and #rainbowforlightsup for Harry's tour this year.
In short: neither incident felt too good and the second one particularly did a lot of harm to LGBTQ+ fans, and to our reputation. Bringing rainbows to shows does feel very good though, and we are going to keep doing it, no matter what.
Hi everyone, we’re taking a hiatus until further notice. If you are looking for rainbow projects for the upcoming tours you can find what’s already planned dd 9 July 2022 on www. rainbowdirection.com
@rainbowsforlightsup is keeping tabs on Harry shows and we know there’s a lot happening for Louis’ shows in Australia and New Zealand so keep an eye out and
KEEP BRINGING YOUR RAINBOWS.
HSLOT Toronto Rainbow Lights Project - Volunteers Needed 💖
Hi everyone! I’m super excited to say that we have a wonderful rainbow lights project happening for the song Matilda on both nights of Harry’s Toronto shows. This was kicked off my twitter fan kiminich and we’ve joined forces to make it the best it can be!
Here’s the deal - we are going to provide all the coloured papers for the whole arena. What we need is some amazing volunteers to help distribute the papers in the arena.
What would you need to do?
The good news is - not much! We would plan to meet outside of the arena to give you the papers for your section. Our idea is that these papers would be divided into 3 or 4 small baggies so a volunteer would just need to do 3 or 4 drop offs at the end of rows asking people to take a paper and pass the bag on. Volunteers could do this after the opener plays so most people are in their seats.
To show you what I mean - here’s some pics!
A bag with enough papers to cover a large section is only about 14 by 5 cm (5 by 1.5 inches) and fits into my tiny arena regulation sized purse with my phone and keys inside. That bag has 3 other bags inside it - so there’s enough papers to go from row 1 to 28!
If you are heading to the shows and willing to volunteer please let me know or contact Kim on twitter (@ Kiminich)
Let’s welcome back Harry to Canada after 4 long years with pride 🏳️🌈 and make the space as safe and welcoming for fans as it was last time!
HSLOT ANTWERP RAINBOW PROJECTS - 7/7 - PLS REBLOG!
Hello friends - please help out by reblogging this post!
There are not ONE but TWO rainbow projects happening at Harry Styles’ concert in Antwerp.
The FIRST and MAIN one is sectored rainbow lights across the arena, and mini pride flags on the floor for “Treat People with Kindness” - this is organized by harryantwerpfanproject on Instagram and here’s the layout
If you are on the balcony, do get in touch with the organizers to coordinate - you can help by bringing lots of sticky notes, stickers or other colored paper matching your section and handing them out to your neighbors.
I myself am teaming up with them and handing out ca 900 mini pride flags for the floor section.
I NEED YOUR HELP TO DO THIS as I cannot be in Antwerp very early to hand out the flags to people lining up and I doubt I’ll be let in with a big bag full of flags so I need people from different sections of the floor who are willing to take in 100 flags in their tote or backpack (this shouldn’t be a problem security wise, at least it wasn’t at Wembley) and then hand them out to people in their vicinity.
The picture above just shows 4 sections on the floor but in fact, the layout for Harry’s show looks more like this:
I will be the VIP section of the arena seats behind zone B close to the B stage (zone 003 in the pic above), so I need people in:
- Standing Zone A
- Standing Zone B
- Arena Seats Zone 001 and 002
- Arena Seats Zone 003 and 004
I will bring the flags - I just need you to take them over from me outside the venue around 7pm when I expect to arrive at the venue, take them in and hand them out to your neighbors with instructions on when to wave them (that’s during Treat People with Kindness)
IF YOU CAN HELP - SEND ME A DM ON @thisiskatsblog or to @lewiskatryn on Twitter
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Then, there is a SECOND rainbow/multicoloured project, and that’s scattered multicolored glow sticks for Lights Up (which will actually come earlier in the setlist this risks getting confusing if Harry asks people to put their lights and flags up for this but no matter, we’re just going to do both! )
It is organized by doyouknowwhoyouare_ap on Instagram and TikTok
The fans going to HSLOT Amsterdam on July 9 are organising a rainbow lights project for Lights Up! See all the info here and don't forget to share and RT so that as many people as possible know about it! As always, we also encourage you to bring your flags to make the venue extra colourful!
The fans going to HSLOT Paris on July 5 are planning two projects for the show:
- a non-rainbow project for Lights Up (putting up flashlight)
- a rainbow lights project for LOML
The organisers are still looking for people to help them hand out the papers for the rainbow lights project, so if you want to volunteer or simply want to get more info, head over to @Team1DFrance on Twitter, who are organising these projects!
Close up of Harry’s pride speech in Oslo 🏳️🌈
For all of you who have felt discouraged. For all of you who have participated over the years. For all of you who need a welcoming space.
Anonymous asked:
is there a label that ACTUALLY means 'attraction regardless of gender' and doesn't have transphobic origins?
yes it’s called “bisexual”
Hiii, is there any chance to get one of the original "I study rainbows" wristbands? Thank you for letting me know. Hope you're doing well <3
Hi there, doing well thanks! I'm afraid those wristbands (originally produced by 1DFansGive) sold out long ago. Personally lost mine, so if you do find anyone who still has a few stashed away somewhere available for sale, let me know, I'd love to have one as well :-)
hiii realized that you guys didnt know but there is a rainbow project in copenhagen tomorrow!! its during lights up im adding the infographics below. link to the facebook page for fanprojects in general tomorrow https://www.facebook.com/groups/322776386438555
its all in danish but i would encourage anyone going to have a look at the group!
Hi there.
In fact we did know - we've listed it on the homepage www.rainbowdirection.com where all the projects are listed!
THANKS for making it easy to share on here as well - we hadn't done that yet. LOT Copenhagen, this is your project!!!
The song is "LIGHTS UP"!
Updated info and FAQs answered for the Prague rainbows for Lights Up flag project!
Follow the organizers on social media for more information:
I’m trying to put together a rainbow project for Harry’s show in Vienna on July 16th and I’m looking for people who are also going and able to help! I don't really know anybody who's going to the show as of yet, but I'm hoping we can make it feel safe for everyone attenting.
There's not a lot of time, and there's already a different fan project for Lights Up, but I really think it would be a shame if we couldn't put something together.
I really want to do rainbow lights, though I'm not sure if we have enough time and resources do them sectioned off (like they did in Hamburg for example) so they might be scattered rainbow lights?
I'd love to order mini pride flags and I would love it if people could help out with that as well, though I understand that not everyone has the means to spend money on that type of stuff. (For Louis' show we ended up ordering 900 flags and it looked amazing!)
🌈 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP ME OUT WITH THIS SEND ME A DM AND BECOME PART OF THE TEAM!! 🌈