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Apart from the commonly used rainbow flag at the Pride march across the world, there are a number of other types of Pride flags that we may have less knowledge about.
It is the month of unity, braveness, serenity and a lot of colours. The month of Pride brings with it a lot of celebration that unites the LGBTQ+ community around the world. The streets are usually covered in colours of the rainbow and empowering spirits. A lot has changed for the community over the years while a lot is changing slowly and gradually. And one of them is identifying the many spectrums within the queer community. Over the years, the world had shifted from shoving people into two genders to discovering and acknowledging many more sexual identities. While we have seen people marching on the streets with the rainbow flag, it's not the only one. There are various other equally important types of Pride flags that represent and stand for the individual spectrums within the society. And here's all you need to know about them.
Take a look at these types of Pride flags and what they mean:
Bisexual Flag
The colours represent the stereotypical colours used for boys and girls and the one overlapping them.
Pansexual Pride
Pansexuals are the ones who show interest in all genders as partners. The pink represents women, yellow nonbinary and gender-nonconforming folks, and the blue is for men.
Asexual Flag
It represents many identities, including graysexuals (the fluid area between sexuals and asexuals) and demisexuals (people who don't experience sexual attraction unless they have an emotional connection with their partners.)
Progress Pride Flag
The white, pink, and light blue reflect the colours of the transgender flag, while the brown and black stripes represent people of colour and those lost to AIDS.
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Polyamory Flag
It celebrates the infinite selection of partners available to polyamorous people. The letter is gold to represent the emotional attachment with others as friends and romantic partners, rather than just our carnal relationships.
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Agender Flag
Agender people reject a gender completely unlike genderqueer people who bend the rules of gender. Here black and white represent the absence of gender. The grey stripes represent people who have a partial absence of gender. The green stripe is used as the inverse of purple since the latter is often used to represent a combination of gender. Hence, inverting it represents negating that concept.
Aromantic Flag
Green celebrates the people who live without romantic attraction like the asexual flag that uses purple to celebrate people who live without sexual attractions.
Non-Binary Flag
This symbol sits as an option for Roxie's creation. The yellow is a symbol of gender outside binary, the white stripe for many or all genders, purple for people who consider both male and female or are fluid between them and black for the agender community.
Intersex Flag
This flag intentionally features nongendered colours that celebrate living outside the binary. The circle in the center represents wholeness.
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Philadelphia People Of Color Inclusive Flag
The city of Philadelphia added two colours, black and brown to the Pride flag as it had previously faced accusations of racial discrimination in its gay bars. The flag also received a lot of criticism. But it was worn by Lena Waithe at the Met Gala.
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Transgender Flag
The light blue stands for the traditional colour used for baby boys, pink is for girls, and the white is for those who have a neutral gender or no gender, and those who are intersexed.
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Genderfluid/Genderflexible Flag
The flag features colours associated with femininity, masculinity, and everything in between. The white represents the lack of gender. The purple represents the combination of masculinity and femininity. The black symbolizes all genders, including third genders. The pink stands for femininity. The blue reflects masculinity.
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Genderqueer Flag
The genderqueer flag highlights androgyny with lavender, agender identities with white, and nonbinary people with green. Some people refer to it as a nonbinary flag if they feel queer is a slur. Created in 2011 by Marilyn Roxie.
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Lipstick Lesbian Flag
The most feminine pride flag, although, not a widely used symbol, it celebrates the femmes in the lesbian community, lovingly called "lipstick lesbians."
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Leather, Latex, & BDSM Flag
This symbol is not exclusively gay, but rather for the leather and BDSM community. Including the flag in the LGBTQ+ community has been a topic of heated debate.
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Bear Brotherhood Flag
A bear is a man in the gay community who is someone is hairy and/or has facial hair often with a cuddly body. The colours represent different hair or fur colours of bears around the world.
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Rubber Pride Flag
Similar to the Leather Pride flag, this symbol is for members of the rubber and latex fetish community and is similar to its predecessor. Black colour represents "our lust for the look and feels for shiny black rubber," red symbolizes "our blood passion for rubber and rubber men," and while yellow highlights "our drive for intense rubber play and fantasies."
Polysexual Flag
Unlike pansexuality, Polysexuality is attracted to multiple genders but not all. It is centered more around attractions to femininity and masculinity rather than gender itself. Here pink stands for females, blue for male and green to ones who don't conform to either gender.
Pony Flag
The Pony Pride Flag provides a visual way of representing involvement in BDSM pony play where people are treated like horses by wearing hooves, ears, saddles and pulling carts. The design was created by Carrie (MysticStorm) in 2007 and uses Black in solidarity with the leather community.
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Straight Ally Flag
This flag marks everyone who is an ally and speaks out one's support for the LGBTQ+ people!