50 Different LGBTQ Flags And Meanings Behind Them!

While most of us are now familiar with the famous LGBT rainbow flag representing queer pride, many of us are not aware that it is different from the original rainbow Gay Pride Flag designed by Gilbert Baker. Nor that there are now more inclusive versions that specifically recognize the trans, intersex, and POCs in our diverse community.

And when we are talking about the different LGBTQ Flags and their meanings, there is far more than just this one flag.

In fact, there are now over 50 flags recognized among the LGBTQ+ community, each used to symbolize different gender identities and sexual orientations within. While most queer individuals would also identify with the all-encompassing rainbow flag, many want to have their own individual flag.

Imagine the rainbow flag is the US flag, and many of these other flags are like individual states underneath. In a community as large and beautifully diverse as ours, it is natural that smaller tribes will want to carve out some recognition for themselves; thus, the different LGBTQ Flags we have today.

As Gilbert Baker, the original creator of the first rainbow Gay Pride Flag, said, “Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you’re saying something.”

So, what do these different LGBTQ Flags say? Well, we have rounded them up and tried our best to explain the meaning behind them all. There is some contention of meaning, or it has been lost to time – but our explanations should still help give some context.

So, let us introduce the different LGBTQ Flags and their meanings…

Abrosexual Pride Flag

An abrosexual person has a fluid sexual orientation and may experience different sexual orientations over time. They may be one sexuality today and be another tomorrow. The timeframe to change an abrosexual individuals’ sexual orientation doesn’t matter, and it could be hours or years before they identify as different sexuality.

The abrosexual flag was created by Mod Chad of pride flags-for-us after an anonymous Tumblr user requested it. It is also thought that the flag and the term originated on DeviantArt in 2013 and later gained recognition on Tumblr.

The abrosexual flag is made up of five colors. There’s dark green, light green, white, baby pink, and rich pink from top to bottom. It isn’t known why these colors were specifically chosen for the abrosexual flag. One Tumblr user on the page abrosexual learning shared their interpretation of what the flag’s colors mean.

They said, “Green represents a queer attraction, the fade to white is for the in-between stage of attraction shifting, and pink is for the actual shift itself. Also, the colors match that of watermelon, which could be a fun pun on the /fluidity/ of our orientation.”

Agender Pride Flag

Agender refers to a person who does not identify themselves as having a particular gender. Other words used to describe agender include genderfree, neutrois, gender blank, or genderless.

The agender pride flag was created in 2014 by Salem X. It has seven equal-sized horizontal stripes. The stripes are colored black, gray, and white, with a central green one, then the opposite white, gray, and black to finish.

The agender flag has four colors. Here’s what they all mean:

• Black and white stripes represent a lack of gender
• Gray represents semi-genderless
• Green represents nonbinary genders.

Androgyne Pride Flag

An androgynous person is someone who displays a combination of masculine and feminine characteristics into an ambiguous form. Androgyny may be stated with respect to biological sex, gender identity, and/or gender expression.

The androgyne flag includes three vertical stripes, and on July 24th, 2014, Tumblr user saveferris made the flag. There are three colors on the flag:

• Pink which represents femininity and womanhood.
• Blue which represents masculinity and manhood.
• Purple which represents androgyny, which is a combination of the two colors.

Aromantic Pride Flag

Aromantics have no interest in or desire for romantic relationships and have been represented by three flags in the past few years. The first one had four stripes with orange, green, black, and yellow. On this flag, green is the opposite of romance, yellow is for friendship, orange is for aromantics, and black is for alloromantics who don’t subscribe to the traditional boundaries of romance.

It isn’t known who created this flag or when.

The next aromantic pride flag had five stripes. The colors were black, grey, yellow, light green, and dark green. Like many LGBTQ flags, this one was first created on Tumblr (in 2014 by user Cameron). The third design is the most recent one and is currently the most widely used and accepted version of the aromantic pride flag. Cameron also designed this flag on November 16th, 2014.

The aromantic flag has four colors. Here’s what they all mean:

• Dark green represents aromanticism.
• Light green represents the aromantic spectrum.
• White represents aesthetic attraction and queer/quasi platonic relationships.
• Grey represents demiromantic and grey-aromantic people.
• Black represents the sexuality spectrum.

Asexual Pride Flag

An asexual person is someone who has no sexual feelings or desires or who is not sexually attracted to anyone.

Asexual visibility and education network (AVEN) user standup designed the asexuality flag in 2010. It was chosen as the result of a month-long competition on the message boards to find an ace flag. The movement to create a flag traversed multiple threads and had three distinct polling stages.

In an endeavor to incorporate aces outside the forum, polling in the final vote was expanded to other ace communities, including non-English forums. This was a successful move as it is now widely used around the world.

The asexual pride flag is a simple four-bar design that cleverly avoids references to special symbols like hearts or triangles. The asexuality flag also doesn’t reference any nation and fits with the designs of other Gender and Sexual Minority (GSM) community pride flags.

The asexuality flag has four colors. Here’s what they all mean:

• Purple represents community.
• White represents non- asexual allies and partners.
• Grey represents demisexuality and grey-asexuality.
• Black represents asexuality.

Bigender Pride Flag

A bigender person is some whose sense of personal identity encompasses two genders. It literally translates as ‘two genders’ or ‘double gender,’ and these genders could be male and female but could also combine non-binary identities.

There are many widely used bigender flags – more than most LGBTQ+ identities – which is largely due to accusations around transphobia (among other things) of the original flag creator. We will discuss the second most common bigender flag, by camp-MLM, but if you are planning to fly one or get one as a gift for a friend, you might want to investigate the numerous alternatives. It has seven stripes, and the colors are thought to mean:

• Pink/blue stripes are for presentation and the feeling of your identities (feminine, masculine, androgynous, whatever suits you).
• The top purple is for all kinds of good relationships.
• The white is for your unique bigender experience, how it feels and what it’s like. It’s also for understanding each other in this community!
• The bottom purple is about self-respect, pride, and being true to yourself.

Bisexual Pride Flag

A bisexual person is someone who is sexually attracted to both men and women. Bisexuality may also be interpreted as a person with romantic or sexual attraction to people regardless of their sex or gender identity, how this is known more specifically as pansexuality.

Michael Page designed the bisexual pride flag in 1998 to give the bisexual community a symbol that was comparable to the gay pride rainbow flag. He aimed to increase visibility towards the bisexual community, because bi-erasure is a real thing – and is arguable just as big a problem then as it is now.

The bisexual flag has three colors. Here’s what they all mean:

• Pink represents same-gender attraction.
• Blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite gender. In the case of non-binary genders, it refers to sexual attraction to a different gender.
• Purple (the overlap between pink and blue) represents sexual attraction to two or more genders.