Pride Flags
This page lists and describes a number of pride flags.
It accompanies the 3d-printable parametric pride flag rainbow pins I designed and published on printables.com and thingiverse.com.
6 Color Pride Flag
The 6-Color Pride Flag is one of the most well-known and used LGBT flags throughout history. This flag includes the colors red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, and violet on it. |
Abrosexual Pride Flag
The Abrosexual Pride Flag has existed since 2015. The flag was created by Mod Chad of pride-flags-for-us after another anonymous person requested it. It is unknown why this person chose these colors specifically. |
Agender Pride FlagThe Agender Pride Flag represents people who do not identify with any gender, who experience a lack of gender, or whose relationship to gender is neutral or undefined. Agender can be its own identity and can also overlap with nonbinary, genderqueer, or gender-neutral identities. The most common agender flag uses black, gray, white, and green stripes. Black and white represent the absence of gender, gray represents partial gender or being between gendered and genderless experience, and green represents nonbinary identities because it is outside the traditional pink-and-blue gender color association. |
Aroace Pride FlagThe Aroace Pride Flag represents people who are both aromantic and asexual, or who identify somewhere on both the aromantic and asexual spectrums. Aroace people may experience little or no romantic attraction, little or no sexual attraction, or experience these forms of attraction in limited or conditional ways. The popular sunset aroace flag uses orange, yellow, white, and blue stripes. It was designed to stand on its own rather than simply combining the aromantic and asexual flags, giving aroace people a distinct shared symbol. |
Aromantic Pride FlagThe Aromantic Pride Flag represents people who experience little or no romantic attraction, or whose romantic attraction differs from common expectations. Aromantic people may still value close relationships, community, intimacy, or partnership, but romance is not necessarily part of how they connect with others. The green stripes represent aromanticism and the wider aromantic spectrum. White and gray represent platonic and other non-romantic forms of love and connection, and black represents the sexuality spectrum and people whose identities intersect with aromanticism in many different ways. |
Asexual Pride Flag
The Flag for the Asexual Community was created in 2010 by the Asexual Visibility and Education Network. Asexual is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or a low interest in sexual activity, but asexuality can mean different things to different people, it is best to ask each individual what it means to them. For some people, it may mean that they rely on other types of attraction instead of or in place of sexual attraction. |
Bisexual Pride Flag
The Bisexual Pride Flag was created in 1998 by Michael Page. His idea for the flag represents pink and blue blending to make purple. The way that bisexual people can blend into the straight community and the gay community. |
Demiboy Pride FlagThe Demiboy Pride Flag represents people who identify partially, but not wholly, with being a boy or man. A demiboy may also identify with another gender, with no gender, or with a broader nonbinary identity. The flag commonly uses gray, light gray, white, and blue stripes. The grays are often understood as partial connection to gender or areas outside a fixed binary, white can represent agender or nonbinary identity, and blue reflects the partial connection to boyhood or masculinity. |
Demigender Pride FlagDemigender is an umbrella term for gender identities that involve a partial connection to a gender. A demigender person might identify partly with one gender and partly with another gender, no gender, or a nonbinary identity. The demigender flag is usually shown with gray, yellow, and white stripes. Gray can represent partial connection to gender, yellow is often associated with genders outside the female/male binary, and white can represent many or all genders. |
Demigirl Pride FlagThe Demigirl Pride Flag represents people who identify partially, but not wholly, with being a girl or woman. A demigirl may also identify with another gender, with no gender, or with a broader nonbinary identity. The flag commonly uses gray, light gray, white, and pink stripes. The grays are often understood as partial connection to gender or areas outside a fixed binary, white can represent agender or nonbinary identity, and pink reflects the partial connection to girlhood or femininity. |
Gay Men's Pride Flag
The Gay Men’s Pride Flag is another lesser known pride flag. It features different shades of green, blue, and purple. |
Gender Fluid Pride FlagThe Gender Fluid Pride Flag represents people whose gender identity is not fixed and may shift over time. A gender-fluid person's gender may move between different identities, intensities, or expressions, and the timing and meaning of those shifts differs from person to person. The flag uses pink, white, purple, black, and blue stripes. Pink and blue are often associated with femininity and masculinity, white with all genders, purple with a mix of masculine and feminine identities, and black with identities outside the gender binary. |
Gender Flux Pride FlagThe Gender Flux Pride Flag represents people whose sense of gender intensity fluctuates over time. Unlike genderfluidity, which often describes shifting between different genders, genderflux usually describes changes in how strongly a gender is felt — from fully gendered, to partially gendered, to little or no gender at all. The most common flag uses dark pink, light pink, gray, light blue, dark blue, and yellow stripes. Dark pink and dark blue are often associated with women and men, the lighter pink and blue with demigirl and demiboy identities, gray with agender experience, and yellow with nonbinary genders. |
Gender Queer Pride Flag
The Gender Queer pride flag was created by the advocate and genderqueer writer Marilyn Roxie in 2011. The flag has three horizontal stripes: lavender, white, and dark chartreuse green. The lavender, a mix of pink and blue which traditionally represents women and men, expresses queer identities and androgyny. White represents gender-neutral and agender identities. Chartreuse represents identities that aren't in the gender binary and the third gender. |
Graysexual Pride Flag
Milith Rusignuolo created the first version of the Graysexual pride flag in 2013. It features two lines of purple on the top and bottom of the flag, two grey lines further in, with a white center line. The colors are supposed to represent someone starting with no sexual attraction (purple - asexuality), then going through an episode of attraction (grey to white), with white indicating allosexuality from the asexual flag, and then returning to asexuality once again. |
Heterosexual Pride Flag
The Heterosexual Pride Flag. Straight is most viewed as men attracted to women and women attracted to men. The term "straight" is used to describe for both straight men and straight women. While straight is often used to describe non-LGBT people it is possible for straight people to be part of the LGBT community. For example, they might be transgender. They also might be, asexual heteroromantic, or aromantic heterosexual, which also makes them LGBT. |
Intergender Pride FlagThe Intergender Pride Flag represents an intersex-exclusive gender identity for people whose gender is influenced or shaped by being intersex. Intergender can stand on its own as a gender, or it can modify another identity, such as intergender woman or intergender nonbinary. It is distinct from intersex itself, which describes variations in sex characteristics rather than a gender identity. This older design was created in 2014 by Mod D of ActuallyIntersex. It uses blue, white, purple, gray, purple, white, and pink stripes, following the general layout of an earlier intersex flag. Blue and pink sit at the ends to suggest the binary sexes or genders, purple is placed toward the center, and the gray stripe stands in for the blue-to-pink gradient of that intersex flag, since purple cannot form a gradient into itself. |
Intersex Pride Flag
This flag went through a variety of iterations before the current Intersex Flag emerged. Previous versions embraced the rainbow that is often associated with queer pride, while others used colors like blue and pink, which are found on the transgender flag. |
Leather Pride FlagThe leather pride flag is a symbol of leather subculture as well as kink and fetish subcultures more broadly, including BDSM. The flag was designed by Tony DeBlase in 1989. DeBlase had no specific symbolism in mind when he designed the flag. He once said, "I will leave it to the viewer to interpret the colors and symbols.". |
Lesbian Pride FlagThe Lesbian Flag is one of the flags fewer people know about. This flag features different shades of pink and sometimes comes with a red kiss on it to represent lipstick lesbians. This flag was created by Natalie McCray in 2010. Some lesbians oppose this flag because of its exclusion of butch lesbians but no other flag has as much popularity as this one. In the new flag, the colors represent the following:
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Maverique Pride FlagThe Maverique pride flag was first created on Tumblr by Vesper H. (queerascat) in 2014, who coined the term "Maverique" to describe their gender. The term combines the English words "maverick" and the French suffix "ique." Maverique is a non-binary or abinary gender with significant gendered experiences but is neither male nor female. However, it is not a lack of gender; it is defined by autonomy and inner conviction about a gender that is unusual and exists outside the standard conceptions of gender. Maverique individuals are free to use whatever pronouns they prefer and present themselves however they want. The colors of the Maverique pride flag are yellow, white, and orange. The yellow represents non-binary gender – as yellow is a primary color (meaning it isn't obtainable from combining any other colors and is entirely independent of other primary colors, cyan (blue) and magenta (pink), Vesper H believed it was the perfect analogy for maverique's relationship with masculinity and femininity. Non-binary genders are also frequently related to the color yellow. White represents autonomy or independence from the gender binary and the spectrum of genders created by the combinations of cyan/blue (masculinity) and magenta/pink (femininity). White is a blank slate upon which maverique is based. Orange represents the inner conviction of what a maverique feels regarding their gender. It also describes the unorthodox and individualistic nature of mavericks. |
Neutrois Pride FlagNeutrois is a nonbinary gender identity often associated with a neutral, null, or genderless experience. Some neutrois people describe their gender as neutral rather than masculine or feminine, while others understand it as an absence of gender. The common neutrois flag uses white, green, and black stripes. White represents neutral, unidentified, or questioning gender; green represents nonbinary gender outside female and male categories; and black represents agender or genderless identities. |
Nonbinary Pride FlagIn 2014, Kye Rowan created the Nonbinary Pride Flag to represent people whose gender identity does not fit within the traditional male/female binary. The colors of the nonbinary flag are yellow, white, purple, and black. The colors each symbolize a different subgroup of people who identify as nonbinary. Yellow signifies something on its own or people who identify outside of the cisgender binary of male or female. A cisgender person would be a person whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. White, a color that consists of all colors mixed, stands for multi-gendered people. Purple, like the lavender color in the genderqueer flag, represents people who identify as a blending of male and female genders. Finally, black (the absence of color) signifies those who are agender, who feel they do not have a gender. Some non-binary/genderqueer people use gender-neutral pronouns. Usage of singular 'they', 'their' and 'them' is the most common. |
Omnisexual Pride FlagThe Omnisexual Pride Flag represents people who are attracted to all genders, with gender still playing a role in how that attraction is experienced. Omnisexuality is closely related to pansexuality, but is often distinguished from it: pansexuality is frequently described as attraction regardless of gender, while omnisexuality is attraction to all genders with awareness that gender can shape the quality or feel of that attraction. The flag was designed by Tumblr user Pastelmemer in 2015 and uses five pink, purple, and blue stripes. Pink represents attraction to femininity and women, blue represents attraction to masculinity and men, and the central purple stripe represents attraction to genders outside the binary. |
Pansexual Pride Flag
The Pansexual Flag was created in 2010. Pansexuality represents those people who feel attracted to a person without thinking about gender. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others. This means that they can feel attraction to those who identify as women, men, both or neither. |
Polyamory Pride FlagPolyamory is a relationship style where people have multiple romantic or sexual partners simultaneously. It is often characterized by open communication, honesty, and consent among all partners involved. Polyamorous relationships can vary widely in structure and dynamics, with some focusing on emotional intimacy and others on physical intimacy. A chevron points toward the opposite end of the flag, a symbol of growth and progress, and sits asymmetrically on the flag to reflect the non-traditional style of polyamorous relationships. The heart within reminds us that love in all forms is the core of non-monogamy. The chevron's white represents possibility—the blank canvas upon which every non-monogamous person creates and develops their individual relationships. possibility also signals hope for the future of the polyamorous and non-monogamous community. Magenta stands for desire, love, and attraction. Slightly shifted from the red in the original flag, this design's magenta includes the addition of desire, which in many cases can be experienced without love nor attraction. Throughout the non-monogamous community, desire, love, & attraction push beyond the mono- and amato-normative paradigms of sexual and romantic love. This flag and this community include, acknowledge, and fiercely advocate for a breadth of love and relationship styles and identities—the asexual spectrum & aromantic spectrum, as well as queerplatonic, tertiary, and otherwise alterous relationships absolutely among them. Blue stands for openness and honesty, just like in the original Pi flag. Openness and honesty are core values in healthy relationships. We strive to be open and honest with our partners as well as with ourselves. Separately from our relationships, many in our community don’t have the privilege to practice their non-monogamy openly. For now, we can only hope and work toward a safer and more welcoming future where every one of us can be open and honest about their polyamorous practice, identity, or orientation. Gold represents the energy and perseverance of those in the non-monogamous community. Perseverance is courageous action in the face of adversity. This might look like persevering in your freedom to have multiple relationships. It may also include standing firm in who you are against cultural structures which oppress and suppress your right to live and love as you see fit. On a community level, this encourages us to continue pushing toward more widespread awareness, understanding, and protection for polyamorous people and families. Purple represents a united non-monogamous community. Today's non-monogamous community includes and was preceded by People of the Global Majority—Black, Brown, Indigenous, and People of Color—whose cultural practices of non-monogamy were and have been historically unacknowledged, suppressed, ridiculed, or erased. A united non-monogamous community is one which honors, includes, and empowers all forms of and approaches to consensual non-monogamy. It actively champions and holds space in abundance for the people of diverse intersectional races, ethnicities, sexualities, and genders who share in the non-monogamous experience. |
Polysexual Pride FlagThe Polysexual Pride Flag represents people who are attracted to multiple genders, but not necessarily all genders. Polysexuality is distinct from pansexuality and bisexuality, though the terms can overlap for some people depending on how they describe their attraction. The flag has pink, green, and blue stripes. Pink represents attraction to women, blue represents attraction to men, and green represents attraction to nonbinary people and people whose genders are outside that binary. |
Transgender Pride Flag
The Transgender Flag was first created in 1999 by Monica Helms, a transgender woman. Light blue and pink are featured because they're the traditional colors associated with baby boys and girls, respectively. The white stands for those who are intersex, transitioning or those who don't feel identified with any gender. |
Other Non-Pride-Flag Brooches
Hidden Disability SunflowerThe sunflower was chosen by the scheme’s creators at Gatwick Airport in 2016 as a subtle, cheerful, easy-to-recognize visual cue for people with non-visible disabilities. The idea was that a sunflower lanyard could quietly signal “I may need extra help, patience, or understanding” without requiring the wearer to disclose a diagnosis. |
Relationship Anarchy HeartRelationship anarchy is an approach to relationships that rejects fixed social hierarchies between romantic, sexual, platonic, and other forms of connection. Instead, each relationship is shaped by the people in it through consent, communication, and mutual agreement. The heart combined with the circle-A symbol is often used as a compact visual shorthand for love, autonomy, and relationship anarchy. |
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