Black’s counter, the white stripe, represents non-asexual allies, while the gray represents the space between sexuality and asexuality. In 2010, the Asexual Visibility and Education Network asked members of their community to design a flag for the group. The blue stripe represents those who identify as male, the pink is for those who identify as female, the yellow for anyone who doesn’t fit the standard gender binary, including those who identify as genderqueer.Īsexuality means no or low interest in sexual attraction. Pansexuality, or omnisexuality, is sexual attraction regardless of gender identity or biological gender. The colors of the flag represent male and female genders and everything in between, including intersex and those who are transitioning. With a total of five horizontal stripes, the flag consists of two pink, two blue and a single white stripe in the middle.
It was first flown in a pride parade a year later in Phoenix, Arizona. Monica Helms, a transgender woman, created the flag in 1999. Other interpretations view the magenta and blue stripes as attraction to women and men respectively, and the indigo as an attraction to both. Some believe the magenta represents homosexual attraction and blue heterosexual attraction, with the indigo representing the middle ground of a blend between both types of attraction. He borrowed the colors of pink and blue from two interlocking triangles that came to represent the bisexual community and incorporated the indigo’s harmony. Michael Page introduced the the bisexual pride flag in 1998 to celebrate members of the LGBT community that are attracted to both men and women. On June 8, 2017, the city of Philadelphia added the two new colors of black and brown to include LGBT people of color. Throughout the years, those three colors were taken out due to dye availability and symmetry. However, the flag hasn’t always been this way the original flag included the colors indigo, turquoise and hot pink and were flown for the first time in the 1978 San Francisco Pride Parade.
Each of the current colors represents a variety of characteristics: red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, blue for art, indigo for harmony. The rainbow flag with its current colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo can be found at pride parades, on hoodies and mugs. Red represents life orange, healing yellow, sunlight green, nature blue, peace and harmony purple, spirit light blue, light pink and white, trans individuals black and brown, marginalized QPOC communities black, those living with HIV, those no longer living and those surrounded by stigma.June is LGBT Pride Month and the community has embraced a multitude of flags symbolizing the various subgroups which make up the whole. Quasar also explains the colors of the flag. The arrow points to the right to show forward movement, while being along the left edge shows that progress still needs to be made.” Quasar continues, “The trans flag and marginalized community stripes were shifted to the Hoist of the flag and given a new arrow shape. “The six-stripe LGBT flag should be separated from the newer stripes because of their difference in meaning, as well as to shift focus and emphasis to what is important in our current community climate.” On a Kickstarter looking to raise $14,000 to mass-produce the flag, Quasar explains the design. Quasar writes, “I felt there needed to be more thought put into the design and emphasis of the flag to give it more meaning.”