Showing your pride! Pride flags have a long history of helping LGBTQ2SIA+ people be heard and seen. These are just some of the many designs from past and present.

GILBERT BAKER PRIDE FLAG 1978-1999 PRIDE FLAG RAINBOW PRIDE FLAG Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected After the assassination of Harvey Milk, Used for over 40 years now, the original official in California, commissioned artist demand for the pride flag soared. The hot eight colours in the Gilbert Baker flag Gilbert Baker in 1977-78 to create the first pink was dropped due to difficulties in were reduced to six for simplification. Pride flag, symbolizing positivity and love. sourcing the fabric.

PEOPLE OF COLOUR FLAG PROGRESS PRIDE FLAG LESBIAN PRIDE FLAG Created in Philadelphia in 2017, this flag Designed by Daniel Quasar in 2018, Just one iteration of various lesbian gives representation to the experience the Progress flag combines the stripes pride flags, the orange, purple and pink of black and brown people in the from the people of colour flag with the stripes here are intended to represent LGBTQ2S+ community. colours of the transgender flag. the full range of lesbian identities.

BISEXUAL PRIDE FLAG TRANSGENDER PRIDE FLAG NONBINARY PRIDE FLAG Created to bring visibility to the Pink and blue represent the traditional Representing people who do not fall bisexual community. Blue represents colours for baby girls and boys, with within the male-female gender binary. straight, pink represents gay or lesbian, the white representing people who are with both colours blending into purple transitioning, have no gender, are gender to represent attraction to both sexes. neutral or those who are intersex.

INTERSEX PRIDE FLAG ASEXUAL PRIDE FLAG Created to represent Representing asexuality, people whose bodies do grey-asexuality, not align with the gender demisexuality, non-asexual binary of male and partners and community. female. AGENDER PRIDE FLAG AROMANTIC FLAG DEMISEXUAL FLAG For those who reject a gender Representing those who may have Representing people who do not completely. The black and white stripes little or no romantic attraction to experience sexual attraction unless represent the absence of gender, while others. In the flag, that is represented they form a strong emotional green, the inverse of the gender-heavy by the green while the gray and black connection with someone. purple, represents nonbinary genders. represent all aromantic sexualities.

GENDERQUEER FLAG GENDERFLUID/GENDERFLEXIBLE POLYSEXUAL FLAG Highlighting androgyny with lavender, Celebrating people whose gender Representing those who are attracted to agender identities with white and identity shifts between male, female or multiple genders, but not all. Pink and nonbinary people with green. somewhere else on the spectrum. blue represents attraction to females, and Sometimes referred to as an alternative males. Green is for attraction to those nonbinary flag. who don’t conform to either gender.

PANSEXUAL PRIDE FLAG POLYAMORY FLAG QUEER PEOPLE OF COLOUR Representing pansexuality’s interest Polyamorous people can have infinite Representing solidarity with the BLM in all genders as partners. The pink partners, hence the use of the pi movement and the intersection of the represents women, yellow nonbinary symbol. The golden colour represents queer and Black communities. and gender-nonconforming people, and emotional connection, as opposed to the blue is for men. sexual relationships.

STRAIGHT ALLY FLAG TWO SPIRIT FLAG Representing Two spirit is a term used by some heterosexual, cis- Indigenous peoples to describe gender people’s those who fulfill a traditional support of the third-gender (or other gender- LGBTQ2S+ community. variant) ceremonial and social role in their cultures. Sometimes seen in combination with the transgender stripes.

We acknowledge there are many other pride flags not shown here and alternate interpretations. We consulted various LGBTQ2SIA+ sources for information and images.