It started out as a joke...

 A gay friend of mine had a dream in which the lesbians were presented with a new mascot. It's called a "lez-ard" and is a rainbow iguana. 

I decided to photoshop up one and posted it on Lizzy the Lezzy's facebook page. As of the writing of this post, her repost of my picture has gotten over 22,000 likes and almost 1,000 shares. I'm pretty blown away. My original post got somewhere around 75 likes.

Some commenters on the post started naming other LGBTQ animals; the PAN-da (pansexual), Trans-Gander (transgender), GAY-cko (a gay gecko), BI-per (bisexual), etc. 

I decided to make these creatures using the colors from the corresponding pride flag for each. I present to you, the LGBTQ-nimals.