The black stripe represents asexuality, the grey stripe representing the grey-area between sexual and asexual, the white stripe sexuality, and the purple stripe community. Genderfluid Pride Flag - JJ Poole created this flag in 2012. It has five horizontal stripes: pink for femininity, blue for masculinity, purple for both masculinity and femininity, black for the lack of gender, and white for all genders.Īgender Pride Flag - The agender pride flag, created by Salem X in 2014, has seven horizontal stripes. The black and white stripes represent an absence of gender, the gray represents semi-genderlessness, and the central green stripe represents nonbinary genders. Genderqueer Pride Flag - This flag was designed in 2011 by Marilyn Roxie, a genderqueer writer and advocate, and features a lavender, white, and chartreuse stripe. According to Roxie, the lavender stripe is a mix of blue and pink-colors traditionally associated with men and women-and represents androgyny as well as queer identities. The white stripe, like in the transgender pride flag, represent agender or gender neutral identities. The chartreuse stripe is the inverse of lavender and represents third gender identities and identities outside the gender binary.
The white stripe completes the full sexual spectrum and also symbolises peace and union.(Latest) Lesbian Pride Flag - The original was a red kiss superimposed on six shades of red and pink colors and a white bar in the center was introduced in a weblog in 2010.
It surfaced on 12 February 2018 at the Love Fest carnival in São Paulo. A 9-striped flag, based on the original 8-striped one, has a white stripe in the middle. Several variants of the rainbow flag have been introduced and flown at “Pride Parades” since then. The flag now has (from the top) red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet and their closest Pantone® values are 185 C, 1375 C, 101 C, 356 C, 2736 C and 2415 C, respectively. The indigo (#400098) and turquoise (#00C0C0) from the original flag were merged into one blue stripe and hot pink (#FF69B6) was removed. The present day LGBTQ+ Pride Flag has only 6 colors which are placed in equal-sized horizontal stripes. This flag had 8 stripes (from the top) – hot pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo and violet which represented sex, life, healing, sunlight, nature, magic/art, serenity and spirit, respectively. The original flag was designed by Gilbert Baker and was flown for the first time on 25 June 1978 at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. However, this was soon done away with because of the dark history associated with the symbol – it was used by the German fascist rule of the early 20 th century to segregate homosexuals. Further expansion has led to the inclusion of queer and the community which is now LGBTQ.īefore the LGBTQ rainbow flag came into existence, the community used a pink triangle symbol as their identity. It has been used since the 1990s and replaces the term ‘gay’, which on its own, did not describe the community correctly. LGBT stands for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender.