scheme for the suffragette movement in Britain and Ireland, with violet for loyalty and dignity, white for purity and green for hope. The pan-European movement Volt Europa and its national subsidiary parties use violet in their uniforms. A small New Age political party in Germany with about 1,150 members is called The Violet Party. It believes in direct democracy, a guaranteed minimum income and politics based on spirituality. It was founded in Dortmund in 2001. Lesbianism Violet flowers and their color became symbolically associated with lesbian love. It was used as a special code by lesbians and bisexual women for self-identification and also to communicate support for the sexual preference. This connection originates from the poet Sappho and fragments of her poems. In one poem, she describes a lost love wearing a garland of "violet tiaras, braided rosebuds, dill and crocus twined around" her neck. In another fragment, she recalls her lover as having "put around yourself [many wreaths] of violets and roses." Flags See also List of colors Purple Shades of violet References External links Optical spectrum Secondary colors Tertiary colors Rainbow colors Shades of violet LGBT symbols