Identity flags

Pride & LGBTQ+ flags

The rainbow flag and the many pride flags that followed it, and what each stripe and colour stands for. 44 flags, each with its story.

Abrosexual Pride Flag

For an orientation that is fluid and changes over time, with green-to-pink stripes.

Achillean / MLM Flag

A men-loving-men flag with two green carnations — a nod to Oscar Wilde, who wore a green carnation to subtly signal his orientation.

Agender Pride Flag

A symmetrical seven-stripe flag (2014) for the absence of gender: black and white for no gender, grey for partial, and green for non-binary.

Androgyne Flag

Pink, purple and blue for a gender blending masculine and feminine.

Aroace Flag

Orange-to-yellow over white and two shades of blue, combining aromantic and asexual identity for people who are both.

Aromantic Pride Flag

For those who experience little or no romantic attraction. The 2014 design uses dark and light green, white, grey, and black stripes.

Asexual Pride Flag

Created by the AVEN community in 2010: black for asexuality, grey for the grey-area, white for allies and partners, and purple for community.

Bear Brotherhood Flag

Earthy brown-to-tan stripes with a bear paw — for the burly, hairy 'bear' community of gay culture.

Bigender Pride Flag

For identifying as two genders at once or fluctuating between them, in shades of pink, purple, white, and blue.

Bisexual Pride Flag

Michael Page's 1998 design: magenta for same-gender attraction, blue for opposite-gender, and an overlapping purple stripe for attraction across the spectrum.

Demiboy Flag

Grey, blue and white stripes for someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a boy or man.

Demigirl Flag

Grey, pink and white stripes for someone who partially identifies as a girl or woman.

Demiromantic Pride Flag

The romantic-attraction counterpart to demisexual, mirroring its layout but using green in place of purple.

Demisexual Pride Flag

For attraction that forms only after a deep emotional bond: a black hoist triangle, white and grey halves, and a purple central stripe.

Gay Men's Flag

A 2019 counterpart to the sunset lesbian flag, with green-to-blue stripes for community, healing, and diversity among gay and queer men.

Genderfluid Pride Flag

For a gender identity that fluctuates over time, with pink, white, purple, black, and blue stripes (2012).

Genderqueer Pride Flag

Marilyn Roxie's 2011 design: lavender for androgyny, white for agender identity, and chartreuse green for identities outside the binary.

Graysexual Pride Flag

For the spectrum between asexual and allosexual — attraction felt rarely or only under specific conditions. Purple-grey-white-grey-purple stripes.

Intersex Flag

Morgan Carpenter's 2013 design: a purple circle on golden yellow, deliberately avoiding pink and blue, symbolizing wholeness and bodily autonomy.

Intersex-Inclusive Progress Flag

Valentino Vecchietti's 2021 update adds a yellow triangle with a purple circle (the intersex symbol) to the Progress chevron — the current leading standard.

Labrys Lesbian Flag

A 1999 design: a white labrys (double-headed Amazonian axe) over a reclaimed black triangle on violet, rooted in lesbian-feminist symbolism.

Leather Pride Flag

Black and blue stripes with a white line and a red heart — Tony DeBlase's 1989 design for the leather/BDSM subculture.

Lesbian Flag (Sunset)

The current community-standard lesbian flag (2018), with sunset stripes from orange (gender non-conformity) through white to pink (femininity).

Lipstick Lesbian Flag

A 2010 flag of pink and red stripes with a red lip-kiss mark; later largely retired for excluding butch lesbians and over controversy about its creator.

Maverique Flag

Yellow, white and orange — a non-binary gender independent of the male/female binary, defined by autonomy.

Neutrois Flag

White, green and black — a neutral or null gender within the non-binary spectrum.

Non-Binary Pride Flag

Designed by 17-year-old Kye Rowan in 2014: yellow for genders outside the binary, white for all genders, purple for a mix, and black for agender.

Omnisexual Pride Flag

Attraction to all genders, where gender is still a factor (unlike pansexuality). Five stripes from light pink through dark purple to light blue.

Original 8-Stripe Pride Flag

Gilbert Baker's original 1978 design for San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day. It had eight stripes, including hot pink (sex) and turquoise (magic), soon dropped for the six-stripe version.

Pangender Flag

Soft pinks, yellows and white for people who experience many or all genders.

Pansexual Pride Flag

A pink-yellow-cyan tricolor from around 2010, where the central yellow stripe represents attraction to non-binary and all other gender identities.

Philadelphia Pride Flag

The 2017 'More Color, More Pride' flag added black and brown stripes above the rainbow to explicitly honor LGBTQ+ people of color.

Pink Lesbian Flag

The lipstick flag with the kiss mark removed — widely circulated through the 2010s before the sunset flag became the accepted standard.

Polyamory Flag (1995)

Jim Evans's 1995 design — blue (honesty), red (love), black (solidarity) — with a gold Greek pi for 'infinite love'.

Polyamory Flag (2022)

A widely adopted 2022 redesign: a red-blue-black tricolor with a white infinity-heart at the center.

Polysexual Pride Flag

Attraction to multiple — but not necessarily all — genders. A 2012 pink-green-blue tricolor.

Progress Pride Flag

Daniel Quasar's 2018 redesign adds a chevron of black and brown stripes (marginalized communities) plus the trans flag's blue, pink, and white to emphasize forward progress.

Queer Pride Flag

Lavender, white and green bands — an umbrella flag reclaiming 'queer' for the whole community.

Rainbow Pride Flag

The globally recognized six-stripe rainbow — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet — simplified from Baker's original around 1979, partly due to fabric availability.

Rubber Pride Flag

Black and red with a yellow chevron — a 1995 flag for the rubber and latex fetish community.

Straight Ally Flag

Black-and-white stripes (straight/cis identity) with a rainbow-filled 'A' for ally, showing support for the LGBTQ+ community.

Transgender Pride Flag

Designed by Monica Helms in 1999. Its light blue, pink, and white stripes are symmetrical, so the flag is always correct no matter which way it is flown.

Trigender Flag

Five symmetric stripes for those who move between three genders.

Two-Spirit Flag

A pan-Indigenous North American umbrella term for traditional third-gender roles; the flag pairs two feathers with a circle over a rainbow field.

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