Pride Flags and Their Meanings
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Ally Pride Flag
The ‘Straight Ally Flag’ celebrates all straight and cisgender people who are proud allies of the LGBTI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,…
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Drag Pride Flag
The alternative drag flag debuted much later in 2016. It was the result of a worldwide competition run by Austin…
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Two-Spirit Pride Flag
Two-Spirit is a modern, pan-Indian term to describe people who have been part of Native American culture for countless generations.…
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Trigender Pride Flag
As the name implies, trigender people experience exactly three genders. They may feel all three at once or vary between…
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Transgender Pride Flag
Trans or transgender is, of course, an umbrella term for people who don’t feel they are the gender they were…
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Rubber Pride Flag
There are lots of flags to represent a range of kinks which include LGBTI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex +)…
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Progress Pride Flag
Graphic designer Daniel Quasar decided to redesign the original rainbow flag again in 2018. Quasar’s design was inspired by the…
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Polyamorous Pride Flag
Polyamory is loving more than one person at the same time with all people involved consenting and respecting each other’s…
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Pocket Gender Pride Flag
One of the more interesting parts of gender discovery is the little world of pocket genders. Technically these are a…
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Pangender Pride Flag
Pangender people typically embrace all genders or a large number of genders. They may be genderfluid too, in which case…
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Omnisexual Pride Flag
Omnisexuality is literally attraction to people of all genders. It’s slightly different to pansexuality which is attraction to people regardless…
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Non-binary Pride Flag
Non-binary people simply feel their gender does not fit on the traditional male-female binary. But as well as an identity,…
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Neutrois Pride Flag
Neutrois people typically identify as having no or neutral gender. In some cases they may want to reduce the physical…
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Polysexual Pride Flag
Polysexual people are attracted to more than two genders but not necessarily all genders. This differs from a literal interpretation…
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Pansexual Pride Flag
If you can be attracted to people regardless of their gender, you are pansexual or omnisexual. You may think of…
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Maverique Pride Flag
Maveriques have a gender – and feel they have a gender – but it is completely separate from male or…
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Lipstick Lesbian Pride Flag
The Lipstick Lesbian Pride Flag represents lesbians with a ‘more feminine gender expression’. The original version had a lipstick kiss…
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Lesbian Pride Flag
The Lesbian Community Pride Flag, or just Lesbian Pride Flag, was inspired by the earlier Lipstick Lesbian Pride Flag This…
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Labrys Lesbian Pride Flag
There are several lesbian flags, but this one has symbolism dating back to Ancient Greece. In Greek myth, the Amazons…
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Leather Pride Flag
There is a range of fetish flags but the Leather Pride Flag is the best known. As such, it’s not…
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Intersex Pride Flag
If your sex characteristics aren’t entirely male or female, you are intersex. This may be in your chromosomes, gonads, sex…
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Hijra Pride Flag
Hijra share both a long culture and a gender identity. Across South Asia, hijra live together in small groups, guided…
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Gilbert Baker Pride Flag
This is the original rainbow flag, with two more colors than the version in use today. Gilbert Baker, who designed…
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Gender Questioning Pride Flag
Anyone who is questioning whether they are really cisgender may identify as gender questioning. And an artist named Roswell created…
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Genderqueer Pride Flag
Many genderqueer people also embrace other non-binary identities. But this umbrella term has the word ‘queer’ defiantly in it. As…
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Genderfluid Pride Flag
Genderfluid people literally see their gender as fluid, rather than fixed. The flag’s colors reflect this. Pink represents femininity, white…
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Demisexual Pride Flag
Demisexuals aren’t totally asexual. They may be sexually attracted to someone, but once they’ve fallen in love. The Demisexual Pride…
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Demigender Pride Flag
Demigender literally means ‘half gender’ but practically is an umbrella term for people who are nonbinary but have a partial…
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Butch Lesbian Pride Flag
The Butch Lesbian Flag is designed to represent lesbians with a more ‘masculine’ or ‘dominant’ personality, style or identity. It’s…
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Bisexual Pride Flag
Bisexuality is physical and/or romantic attraction to two or more genders. Michael Page, a campaigner for bi rights and visibility…
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Bear Pride Flag
Bears are part of gay and bi male subculture – generally they are ruggedly masculine and hairy guys. Psychology undergraduate…
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Asexual Pride Flag
The Asexual Visibility and Education Network set up a competition to create this flag in 2010. It represents the range…
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Aromantic Pride Flag
Aromantic people may or may not be interested in sex but never or rarely experience romantic attraction. Many place themselves…
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Androgynous Pride Flag
Androgynous people are a mix of both male and female. The blue stripe represents masculinity and the pink femininity. The…
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Agender Pride Flag
This is a flag for those who identify as agender, or genderless. Literally, people who reject the idea of having…
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Drag or Feather Pride Flag
The Feather Pride Flag is a symbol for the drag community. Artist Sean Campbell created it in 1999. The phoenix…
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Philadelphia Pride Flag
The More Colour More Pride Flag or Philadelphia Pride Flag is one of the latest attempts to redesign Gilbert Baker’s…