Pride Flags

Agender Pride Flag

Trans Pride Flag

Aromantic Pride Flag

Aromantic: Someone who does not experience romantic attraction, or does so in a significantly different way than is traditionally thought of.

History: The first aromantic pride flag was a four-stripe design with green, yellow, orange, and black. Green represented the opposite of red (the color of romance), yellow played off of yellow flowers which represent friendship, orange because it was between yellow and red (for grey-romantics), and black was for alloromantics who reject the traditional ideas of romance. It is unknown when this flag was designed, or by whom.

The second aromantic pride flag was a five stripe design of dark-green, light-green, yellow, grey, and black. This design was created by Tumblr user Cameron (@cameronwhimsy) from Australia on February 7, 2014.

The third and most recent design is the one flown by the GSRC, and is the most widely accepted version, replacing the yellow of the second flag to a white stripe. This flag was designed by Cameron as well, updating the design themselves on November 16, 2014.

Flag Meaning
Dark Green: Represents aromanticism.
Light Green: Represents the aromantic spectrum.
White: Represents platonic and aesthetic attraction, as well as queer/quasi platonic relationships.
Grey: Represents grey-aromantic and demiromantic people.
Black: Represents the sexuality spectrum.

Asexual Pride Flag

Asexuality: The lack of sexual attraction to all genders.

History: The asexual flag came about after AVEN (Asexual Visibility and Education Network) held a contest on its forum boards to create a pride flag for those who identify as asexual. The winning design was posted on June 30, 2010 by AVEN user “standup”. The colors black, grey, white and purple, were chosen as the same ones that are a part of AVEN’s logo.
Asexuality includes a spectrum of many asexual identities under its umbrella.

Flag Meaning
Black: Asexuality
Grey: Grey-asexuality and demi-sexuality
White: Non-asexual partners and allies
Purple: Community

Bisexual Pride Flag

Bisexuality: The physical or romantic attraction to two genders.

History: The word “bisexual” comes from the Greek prefix “bi” meaning “two”. The bisexual pride flag was created in 1998 by Michael Page, to differentiate the community from the rainbow flag and the gay community. Page decided to create it after his time at BiNet USA, a nonprofit organization.

The flag was unveiled on December 5, 1998, at BiCafe’s (an early bisexual web site) 1st anniversary party.

Flag Meaning
Pink: Representing attraction to those of the same gender identity.
Purple: Representing attraction to two genders.
Blue: Representing attraction to those who identify as a different gender.

Butch Lesbian Pride Flag

Butch Lesbian: A female-identified person who likes other female-identified people and presents more traditionally “masculine” in appearance.

History: The first butch lesbian pride flag was created in 2016 by tumbler user dorian—rutherford. The flag was designed for lesbians who do not identify with the lipstick lesbian flag due to its feminine nature. The original post was deleted from the tumbler, but later resurfaced on deviantart.com. Another variation of the butch flag was created in 2017 by tumbler user butchspace to represent butch positivity. Both variations of the butch lesbian flag are still slowly gaining traction in the community.

Although the creator never explicitly explained the meaning of the colors, people have guessed that the blue represents masculinity, the purple represents lesbian and woman-identified individuals, and the white represents people across the gender and sexuality spectrums more broadly. The butch lesbian flag is one variation of several lesbian flags, including the lipstick lesbian flag and labrys lesbian flag.

Flag Meaning
Blue: represents masculinity.
White: represents people across the gender and sexuality spectrums more broadly.
Purple: represents lesbian and woman-identified individuals.

 Colorado Pride Flag

History: The Colorado Pride Flag combines the original Colorado state flag with the rainbow stripes from the LGBTQA+ pride flag. The “C”, golden disk, and colors were not specifically stated though until 1964. The flag has rapidly gained popularity since 2016, and can be seen at local pride parades.

Along with the Colorado LGBTQA+ Pride Flag, many other U.S. states have their own versions of their state flags with rainbow coloring added to represent LGBTQA+ Pride.

Flag Meaning
Blue: Represents the sky.
White: Represents the snow-capped mountains.
“C”: For Colorado.
Red: For the clay in the ground.
Yellow: For the sunshine Colorado gets.

Demiromantic Pride Flag

Demiromantic: Feeling romantic attraction to someone only after forming an emotional bond with them. Part of the grey-romantic and broader aromantic community.

Aromantic: Little to no romantic attraction to others.

History: The term demiromantic describes an identity under the asexual and grey-asexual umbrellas. The coinage of the term is unknown, however a page on The Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) was created for demiromantic in August 2011 under the lexicon section of the website.

Demiromantic people may use a pre-fix when describing their romantic identity, such as “demi-homoromantic” to future specify their romantic attraction. Like all romantic identities, demiromantics may have any sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or expression.

Little information is known about the meaning and creation of the demiromantic flag. However, those within the demiromantic community speculate that it is based off the aromantic flag and AVEN logo. The flag continues to gain popularity as the aromantic and asexual communities continue to become more visible.

Flag Meaning
Black: Sexuality spectrum
Grey: Grey-aromanticism and demiromanticism
White: Platonic and aesthetic attraction, as well as queer/quasi platonic relationships
Green: Aromantic spectrum

Demisexual Pride Flag

Demisexual: Feeling sexual attraction to someone only after forming a deep emotional bond with them. Part of the broader asexual community.

History: The term demisexual was coined in 2006 on the forums of The Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) by user “sonofzeal”, and started to gain widespread popularity in 2008. “Sonofzeal” felt neither completely asexual nor completely non-asexual, so coining demisexual helped him more accurately describe him needing an emotional as a prerequisite to sexual attraction.

It is unknown how or when the demisexual flag came to be, but it is very similar to the asexual flag in its use of colors, which itself was based off the AVEN logo. The flag continues to gain popularity as the asexual community continues to become more visible.

Flag Meaning
Black: Asexuality
Grey: Asexuality and Demi-sexuality
White: Sexuality
Purple: Community

Genderfluid Pride Flag

Genderfluid: People who have a gender expression/expressions or identity/identities that are not constant or fixed.

History: The genderfluid pride flag was created by JJ Poole in 2013. The flag's creation was to represent people whose gender identity and/or expression is fluid and may fluctuate at different times or in different circumstances.

The flags five horizontal colored stripes represent the diversity of gender fluidity, genderfluid identity, and the genderfluid community. Genderfluid people may also identify as a part of the non-binary community, transgender community, or as multigender. Genderfluid people may have multiple gender identities, expressions, or use multiple sets of pronouns that fluctuate sometimes, constantly, or in a pattern.

Flag Meaning
Pink: Represents femininity.
White: Represents lack of gender.
Purple: Represents a combination of both masculinity and femininity.
Black: Represents all genders, including genders that do not align with femininity or masculinity.
Blue: Represents masculinity.

Genderqueer Pride Flag

Genderqueer: People whose gender identity does not fit within the male/female binary.

History: The flag was created in June 2011 by Marilyn Roxie in order to create visibility for the genderqueer community and related identities. The flag was originally intended to represent all non-binary and genderqueer people, but as the genderqueer community grew the flag became synonymous with "genderqueer" specifically, leaving many non-binary people to not feel represented by the flag. A non-binary flag was created in February 2014 by Kye Rowan to represent non-binary people specifically.

Flag Meaning
Lavender: Mixture of “blue” and “pink”. Represents androgyny, and people who identify as a mixture of female and male.
White: Represents agender people.
Dark Chartreuse Green: The inverse of lavender. Represents people who identify outside of and without reference to the gender binary.

Intersex Pride Flag

Intersex: A person born with physical sex characteristics that don’t fit the traditional definitions for male or female bodies.

History: The intersex flag  was unveiled on July 5, 2013 by creator Morgan Carpenter, then co-chair of Organization Intersex International Australia. Carpenter created the flag as a way to have a commonly understood symbol and flag. He mentioned that other attempts seemed derivative and sought to create something that had a firmly grounded meaning.

The flag has quickly gained popularity among intersex communities and organizations, thanks in part to its unique design. A flag that is also used to represent intersex pride and awareness was created in 2009 by Natalie Phox, with blue, pink, purple, and white stripes.

Flag Meaning
Purple: Used because it’s seen as a gender neutral color.
Yellow: Used because it’s seen as a gender neutral color.
Circle: Represents wholeness, completeness and the intersex people’s potentiality.

Drag Pride Flag

Drag: A person who dresses in highly decorated clothing, wigs, jewelry, makeup, etc., as a costume and performs for entertainment.  

History: The first drag pride flag was created in 1999 by Sean Campbell and was called the Feather Pride Flag. The next Drag Pride Flag was created as a result of the efforts of the Austin International Drag Festival (AIDF) 2016, more specifically that of Veranda L’Ni, a drag performer from Cleveland, Ohio. The drag fest is an annual event that encompasses all forms of drag across many platforms around the world. AIDF created a contest to create the official flag of drag. The contest asked its contestants to create a lasting symbol of a community that loves, shares, embraces, and entertains the crap out of people everywhere.  

Flag Meaning: 

Purple: represents the passion for drag 

White: represents the blank state that is our body and face that we all change to create the characters that we become 

Blue: represents self-expression and loyalty 

Crown: represents leadership in the community 

Stars: represent the many forms of drag 

Lesbian Pride Flag

Lesbian: A female-identified person who is attracted to other female-identified people.

History: The word “lesbian” literally means resident of the island Lesbos and became synonymous with women who like women in reference to the island’s most famous resident, Sappho, a female poet who wrote many love poems to other women around 600 BCE.

The use of the term “lesbian” can be traced to sometime in the 1800s. Before that, the term “sapphic” was used to refer to women who liked other women.

The word gained popularity as part of a movement in the late 1960s to differentiate themselves from gay men. There are many other variations of the lesbian flag, including ones specifically for butch lesbians and labrys lesbians.

Flag Meaning: The colors of red, purple, and pink represent traditionally feminine colors.

Non-Binary Pride Flag

Non-Binary: People whose gender identity does not fit within the traditional male/female binary.

History: o The Non-Binary Flag was created by Kyle Rowan in 2014. The four horizontal stripes of the colors- yellow, white, purple, and black are symbolic for Non-Binary peoples’ experience. This flag was not created with the intention to replace the Genderqueer flag, but to be flown alongside it.

Flag Meaning
Yellow: Represents those whose gender falls outside of and without reference to the binary.
White: Represents people with many or all genders.
Purple: Represents those whose gender identity falls somewhere between male/female or is a mix of them.
Black: Represents people who feel they are without a gender

Pansexual Pride Flag

Pansexuality: The attraction to people regardless of their gender identity.

History: The word “pansexual” comes from the Greek prefix “pan” meaning “all”. Pansexuality differs from bisexuality in that people who identify as pansexual are emotionally or physically attracted to all genders, regardless of sex or gender identity, whereas bisexuality is defined as people who are emotionally or physically attracted to two genders.

The pansexual pride flag was created to differentiate between the bisexuality flag, which also has three horizontal bars. It was created on the internet sometime around 2010, and has gained popularity since then.

Flag Meaning
Pink: Representing attraction to those who identify as female.
Yellow: Representing attraction to those who identify as genderqueer, non-binary, agender, androgynous, or anyone who doesn’t identify on the male-female binary.
Blue: Representing attraction to those who identify as male.

Philadelphia Pride Flag

LGBTQA+: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Asexual, and all other identities that fall into the LGBTQA+ community across the gender, sexuality, and romantic spectrums.

QPOC: Queer People of Color. Members of the queer community who are also people of color.

History: The QPOC inclusive LGBTQA+ Pride flag is based on the current widely accepted LGBTQA+ Pride Flag, the 6 color rainbow flag, first created by gilbert baker in 1978.

The QPOC inclusive LGBTQA+ flag or “ Philadelphia Pride Flag” was unveiled on June 8, 2017 at a pride month kick-off event at Philadelphia City Hall.

The Philadelphia Pride flag adds two stripes, black and brown, to the traditional six of the rainbow flag. The design was created by Philadelphia based PRd agency Tierney for Philadelphia's “More Color More Pride'' campaign, which aims to showcase the city's commitment to people of color in the queer community. Adding the black and brown stripes is a small but powerful step for inclusivity in the LGBTQA+ community.

Flag Meaning
Black and Brown: Queer People of Color
Red: Life
Orange: Healing
Yellow: Sunlight
Green: Nature
Blue: Harmony/Peace
Violet: Spirit

Polyamorous Pride Flag

Polyamory: The ability to love multiple people and/or be involved in multiple relationships within the context of mutual consent.

History: The original polyamorous pride flag was created in the Pacific Northwest in early fall of 1995 by Jim Evans, who wanted to create an anonymous symbol for the polyamorous community that could be acknowledged and shared by those who knew the symbol. With the advent of the internet, people began to discover the flag, and it grew in popularity and use.

A modified version was created in Colorado in 2017 by the University of Northern Colorado Poly Community, one that has the infinity hearts symbol, a common symbol of the polyamorous community, instead of Evans' original pi symbol.

Flag Meaning
Blue: Represents the openness and honesty of all parties involved in the relationships.
Red: Represents love and passion.
Black: Represents solidarity with those who must hide their polyamorous relationships from the outside world.
Yellow: The value placed on emotional attachment to others.
Infinity Heart Sign: Represents the infinite love for multiple partners at the same time.

Polysexual Pride Flag

Polysexual: Someone who is sexually attracted to multiple, but not all, genders.

Polyromantic: Someone who is romantically attracted to multiple, but not all, genders.

History: On July 11, 2012, a flag designed by a Tumblr user with the signature “Samlin” submitted or posted a design to the blog @f***yeahpolysexuality, explaining their design: “I, as a poly individual, was greatly saddened by the fact that we don’t have a flag…so I made one :P I made it similar to the bi and pan flags, since they’re all in under the multisexual umbrella. -Samlin”

The colors and design of the flag are based off the bisexual and pansexual flags, borrowing the blue and pink, and replacing the purple and yellow stripes with a green one.

Flag Meaning
Pink: Represents attraction to female-identified people.
Green: Represents attraction to people who identify outside the traditional male-female binary.
Blue: Represents attraction to male-identified people.

Progress Pride Flag

LGBTQIA+: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning/Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and all other identities that fall into the LGBTQA+ community across the gender, sexuality, and romantic spectrums.

QPOC: Queer People of Color. Members of the Queer community who are also People of Color.

History: First created in 2018, the graphic artist Daniel Quasar designed Progress Pride Flag to highlight and honor Queer People of Color and the Transgender community. This flag has been adapted from the Baker Pride Flag (1978) also known as the “Retro 8” pride flag, and the Philadelphia Pride Flag (2017) which was introduced as a part of the city of Philadelphia’s “More Color More Pride” campaign.

Quasar kept the original rainbow flag six colors to honor their meaning with an addition of the Trans flag, Black, and Brown arrow that points to the right to signify forward movement within LGBTQ+ rights. Quasar states that, "This new design forces the viewer to reflect on their own feelings towards the original Pride flag and its meaning as well as the differing opinions on who that flag really represents, while also bringing into clear focus the current needs within our community."

Flag Meaning
Black and Brown: Black and Lantinx Queer Communities
Transgender Flag: Transgender Communities
Red: Life
Orange: Healing
Yellow: Sunlight
Green: Nature
Blue: Harmony/Peace
Violet: Spirit

Rainbow Pride Flag

LGBTQA+: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning/Queer, Asexual, and all other identities that fall into the LGBTQA+ community.

History: The rainbow flag representing the LGBTQA+ community was created by Gilbert Baker, and first flown in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade on June 25, 1978. The original flag consisted of eight horizontal stripes, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, and violet, but pink was removed after a year due to fabric shortages. It’s been rumored that Baker might have been emulating the song “Over the Rainbow” by Judy Garland (one of the first gay icons), the Stonewall Riots, or based off a flag for world peace flown at campuses nationwide in the 1960’s.

Baker’s life changed when he met the first openly gay politician, Harvey Milk in 1974. Milk challenged Baker to come up with a symbol for the gay community in 1977. After Milk’s assassination on November 27, 1978, demands for the flag rapidly increased.

The rainbow flag has grown immensely in visibility and acceptance and is now widely accepted as the predominant symbol for the LGBTQA+ community. Also in June 2015, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) acquired the original flag. Gilbert Baker died on March 31, 2017, but his legacy will always live on.

Flag Meaning
Red: Life
Orange: Healing
Yellow: Sunlight
Green: Nature
Blue: Harmony/Peace
Violet: Spirit

Two-Spirit Pride Flag

Two-Spirit: An umbrella term to identify queer Native American individuals with traditional and cultural understandings of gender roles and identity.

History: Two-spirit is a concept that existed before European colonization of North America. Tribes described two-spirit individuals in different ways; however, they shared similar characteristics.

Two-spirit individuals traditionally were viewed as holding a masculine and feminine spirit. They held a gender identity outside of the binary man or woman. They were designated social roles that were for men and women, such as artist, hunter, ceremonial leader or healer. Two-spirit
individuals expressed their gender in ways that did not conform to only man or woman.

According to tradition, two-spirit identity was a result of supernatural intervention in the form of dreams or visions and aligned with tribal mythology. Some two-spirit individuals also formed intimate relationships with non-two-spirit people of the same sex.

Flag Meaning
Two Feathers: Represents masculine and feminine identities.
Circle: Represents the unification of masculine and feminine
identities into a separate gender.
Rainbow Colors: Represents modern

Intersex Progress Pride Flag

Designed by Valentino Vecchietti (2021) 

Intersex: A person with both physical sex characteristics that do not fit the binary definitions for male or female bodies 

History: In 2013, Morgan Carpenter and Tony Briffa designed the Intersex flag, yellow with a purple ring. In 2017, Philadelphia’s Office of LGBT Affairs developed the rainbow flag to incorporate the colors black and brown to include Black, brown, and people of color. In 2021, Valentino Vecchietti, a social media personality, designed the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag to be inclusive to the Intersex community. 

Flag Meaning: 

Yellow with Purple ring: Intersex Pride 

White, pink & light blue: Transgender Pride 

Brown: Represents brown people, and people of color, within the LGBT community 

Black: Represents Black people within the LGBT community 

Red: Represents Life 

Orange: Represents Healing 

Yellow: Represents the Sun 

Green: Represents Nature 

Blue: Represents Art 

Violet: Represents Spirit 

Aroace

Pride Flag

Designed by Jace (2018)

Aroace: A person who falls somewhere along both the asexual and aromantic spectrum. 

History: The Aroace Pride Flag, also referred to as the Sunset Aroace Flag, was created on December 11, 2018, by Jace, on their Tumblr blog @acesflags. It is meant to represent anyone who is on the asexual spectrum and the aromantic spectrum together. The flag was made with the aim of creating an aroace flag that wasn’t the aro and ace flags stacked on top of each other.  

Flag Meaning:  

Orange: Community. Orange, like blue, is in between ace purple and aro green on the color wheel. This represents both the unity of ourselves as aroaces as well as our places in both the aro and ace communities. 

Yellow: Love and relationships that exist outside of the conventional and amatonormative ideas of romantic and sexual relationships. 

White: Wholeness, used to represent aroaces who are aplatonic, nonamorous, or otherwise not seeking a committed partnership, and how we are all whole people on our own. 

Two shades of Blue: The aroace identity as well as the spectrum of aroace identities and experiences. The color is between aromatic green and asexual purple.  

Queer People of Color Pride Flag 

Queer People of Color: a person of color (non-white) who identifies on the lgbtqia+ spectrum. 

History: Though the flag’s designer and year of creation of this flag are unknown, the QPOC Pride Flag rose to prominence in 2020. The raised clenched fist in the center of the rainbow flag indicates solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The QPOC flag also represents how intertwined the queer community and people of color have been over the years in their fight for equality.  

Flag Meaning:  

Red: Life 

Orange: Healing 

Yellow: Sunlight 

Green: Nature 

Blue: Art 

Purple: Spirit 

Shades of Brown: varying shades of people of color 

Stud/Black Lesbian Flag  

Designed by @afroemstar 

Black Lesbian/Stud: A Black-identified person that is primarily or exclusively attracted to women and femmes; a culture-specific identity that is often defined as a black masculine lesbian. 

History: Created by user @afroemostar, this flag was made to bring light to Black lesbians that celebrate their identity as completely independent from the white lesbian experience. The colors are meant to resemble the range of brown tones found within the Black community.  

Shades of brown: varying tones and shades of Blackness  

Omnisexual Pride Flag  

Designed by Pastelmemer (2015)

Omnisexual: A sexual attraction to people of all sexes and gender identities, wherein gender plays a role in one’s attraction. This could be a preference or a recognition, and the attraction may feel different depending on the gender or sex. Some omnisexual individuals may be more attracted to certain genders, but that is not always the case.  

History: Designed by Pastelmemer around July 4, 2015, the flag has 5 horizontal stripes. The colors represent the wide spectrum of sexual attraction, with the pink and blue shades symbolizing attraction to femininity and women, and masculinity and men, respectively. The dark purple stripe in the middle represents attraction to all other genders that are outside of the gender binary. 

Flag Meaning: 

Pink: femininity 

Blue: masculinity 

Purple: attraction to all other genders outside of the gender binary 

Bigender

Pride Flag 

Bigender: A person who has or experiences two genders. The genders may be any combination of two genders, and those genders can be binary or non-binary. They may be experienced simultaneously or may alternate, and they may not be experienced equally or in the same way. Bigender is an identity under the transgender umbrella. 

History: The most known bigender flag was created by Tumblr user @no-bucks-for-this-doe. The flag consists of two different pink stripes, a deep pink followed by the traditional depiction of pink. From there, a lilac strip, a white stripe, another lilac stripe. The last two stripes are baby blue followed by a deep blue. The exact meanings of each color were not specified when coined, though some assumptions have been made. 

Flag Meaning: 

Pink: femininity 

Blue: masculinity 

Purple: a combination of male and female, or androgyny 

White: non-binary 

Abrosexual

Pride Flag 

Abrosexual: Individuals that experience their sexual orientation as fluid and/or changing over time. Abrosexuality involves one’s entire orientation changing over time. The intensity of their attractions may change as well. Abrosexuality can fall under the Asexual spectrum or the Multisexual spectrum, which includes individuals who are romantically or sexually attracted to multiple genders. 

History: Mod Chad created the Abrosexual flag in 2015, following an anonymous Tumblr user’s request to represent their sexuality with the “typical 5-color flags that fades from #46D294 to white to #EE1766.” The term is thought to have also originated on Tumblr in 2013 on DeviantArt. 

Flag Meaning:  

Green: Queer attraction 

White: In-between stage or attraction shifting 

Pink: the shift of attraction itself 

Graysexual

Pride Flag

Graysexual: Also known as Gray-asexual or Gray-A, is an asexual identity characterized as being in between asexual and allosexual; that is, being asexual while also being able to experience, or have experienced previously, sexual attraction. People who identify as graysexual may experience sexual attraction that is uncommon for the individual, may only be directed toward specific people, occurs infrequently, at low intensity, or in an ambiguous way. 

History: Milith Rusignuolo designed the Graysexual Pride Flag in 2013 as a symbol of individuals who identify as asexual but don’t fall into one of the primary types of asexuality. Typically, a person who identifies as Graysexual experiences very little sexual attraction. 

Flag Meaning:  

Purple: Asexuality, or no sexual attraction 

Gray: An episode of attraction 

White: Allosexuality, or a signal experience of sexual attraction 

Genderflux 

Pride Flag 

Genderflux: A person whose experience with their gender identity changes in intensity. A genderflux person’s connection to gender may weaken or strengthen at random.  

History: The exact creator of the most commonly used version of the genderflux flag is unknown, but this design was in use for genderflux as early July 4, 2015. 

Flag Meaning: 

Dark pink: women 

Light pink: demigirls 

Grey: agender 

Light blue: demiboys 

Dark blue: men 

Yellow: nonbinary 

Demiboy 

Pride Flag 

Designed by Salem (2014) 

Demiboy: A person who is partially boy; someone who partially, but not entirely, identifies as a man or otherwise masculine. Also known as demimale, demiguy, pr demiman. 

History: The flag proposal for Demiboy was posted by Salem on February 18, 2014, without descriptions for color meanings. 

Demigirl 

Pride Flag 

Demigirl: A person who is partially girl; someone who partially, but not entirely identifies as a woman or otherwise feminine. Also known as demifemale, demigal, demiwoman. 

History: The flag proposal for Demigirl was posted by Salem on February 18, 2014, without descriptions for color meanings.  

Maverique 

Pride Flag 

Maverique: A gender identity characterized by having an autonomous self that exists independently of the gender binary, along with anything derived from those genders, but is not of a neutral gender. Someone who is maverique possesses a distinct gender rather than being without one. Maverique is a part of the non-binary umbrella and is a standalone gender label. 

History: The Maverique flag was designed by Vesper H. on June 15, 2014.  

Flag Meaning: 

Yellow: Nonbinary and primary color  

White: Autonomy and independence from the spectrum of colors/genders; white is also symbolic of maverique being based upon a black gender state 

Orange: Inner conviction regarding one’s own gender, and an unorthodox and individualistic nature 

Gay Men's  

Pride Flag

Gay Men: Men who are primarily or exclusively attracted to men in their physical, romantic, and/or emotional attractions. 

History: The modern gay men’s pride flag, aka the “Ocean Gay flag” was posted in 2019 on a Tumblr blog called “gayflagblog” as an update of a prior gay men flag. It features an array of green, blue and purple shades that are representative of a wide range of gay men. This version replaces the original one that only used blue tones, as it was regarded as a stereotypical representation of the gender binary and lacked meaning for the colors used. This flag is inclusive of trans gay men. 

Flag Meaning: 

Green: Community 

Teal: Healing 

Light Teal/Green: Joy 

White: Gender non-conforming, non-binary & trans men 

Light Blue: Pure love 

Purple: Fortitude 

Indigo: Diversity

Bear Brotherhood 

Pride Flag

Bear: A Bear is a large, hairy queer man who self-identifies with ‘bear’ label. Being a bear combines gender expression, gender identity, and sexuality. For example, a large, hairy straight man would not be a bear. 

History: Created in 1995 by Craig Byrnes to symbolize inclusivity and camaraderie within the community. 

Flag Meaning: 

Brown, rust/orange, yellow, tan, white, gray and black: represent different fur colors of different types of bears 

Black Bear Paw Print: represents the bear community