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Gay Flag
Although it can be used for any gender, it is most often used for men who are attracted to men.
Date: 2018 Creator: Unknown Flag meaning: This flag represents the men-loving-men community, who did not have a “representative” flag for most of the community’s lifetime. The deep green represents community. The teal represents healing. The light green represents joy. The white represents trans men, non-binary men, and gender non-conformity. The light blue represents love. The blue represents courage and activism. The dark blue represents diversity and inclusivity.
Genderfluid Flag
Genderfluid: People who experience gender in a “fluid”, fluctuating way. The experience is wide and varied-some folks experience intense changes in gender, while others don’t, and these changes happen across different timescales for different people.
Date: 2012 Creator: JJ Poole (The flag has a long history of being hidden in obscurity-photos as far back as 2005 show a similar genderfluid flag) Flag meaning: The pink represents femininity ir ao meu blogue. The white represents a lack of gender. The purple represents androgyny. The black represents the non-binary spectrum of identities. The blue represents masculinity.
Genderqueer Flag
Genderqueer: People who do not identify themselves as strictly male or female-though many have their own definitions of what this means for them. Genderqueer is similar to non-binary. However, some non-binary folks don’t identify with the label of “genderqueer”, and vice versa.
Date: 2011 Creator: Marilyn Roxie Flag meaning: The lavender is a mixture of blue and pink-the traditional colors associated with masculinity and femininity in the West-representing androgyny. The white in the middle represents the agender spectrum and reflects the white in the middle of the trans flag. The green is the inverse of the lavender and represents non-binary identities.
Intersex Flag
Intersex: An umbrella term used to describe people who have chromosomes, hormonal profiles, or genitals that do not typically fit into binary medical and social constructions of male and female. Biological sex, like gender, is not binary. Between 0.05% and 1.7% of people are born with intersex traits, although not everyone with intersex traits identifies as intersex. Intersex conditions ent (DSD). An intersex individual may or may not identify as part of the trans community. The terms ‘intersex’ and ‘trans’ are distinct and should not be used interchangeably.
Date: 2013 Creator: Morgan Carpenter (designed for Intersex Human Rights in Australia) Flag meaning: The colors of the intersex flag were carefully chosen to prevent any allusion to gender-the yellow and purple colors are genderless. The main idea behind the flag lies in the circle, which represents wholeness and completeness, as a symbol of celebration and a voice to protest the way contemporary medical systems have treated intersex individuals.
‘Sunset’ Lesbian Flag
Date: 2016 Creator: Emily Gwen ( on Twitter) Flag meaning: This flag is commonly referred to as the “Sunset” Lesbian flag to distinguish itself from an older design that is no longer used due to the its nature as a non-inclusive symbol, as intended by its creator. The flag is a more common 5-stripe version of the original 7-stripe Sunset design. The colors are based on the sunset and are derived from the 7 stripe version where dark orange represents gender non-conformity; orange represents independence; light orange represents community; white represents unique relationships to womanhood; pink represents serenity and peace; dusty pink represents love and sex; dark rose represents femininity.
Butch Lesbian Flag
Butch: Refers to a lesbian whose appearance and behavior are seen as traditionally masculine. Most people who identify as Butch consider it to be a sub-category of lesbian, but as with many identities, how (and if) people choose to identify with the label varies.
