Cecilia Miller is a lesbian love warrior and educator fighting for queer justice and ensuring every shade of the rainbow shines bright & bold!
While most of us are aware of the iconic rainbow flag, there are many more LGBTQ pride flags that symbolize the diverse sex, sexuality, attraction, and gender identities within our beautiful queer community.
Even while most LGBT people continue to identify with the LGBT rainbow flag, many also want to fly their own flag alongside it.
You can imagine like the rainbow flag is like the national flag: everybody’s underneath that. But each group, like each state, has their own individual flag. Because, you know, representation is fundamental!
The Pangender Pride Flag is one such flag, which you may have seen flying at any number of pride celebrations throughout the world, from Helsinki to Honolulu to Istanbul …or anywhere in between!
Pangender is someone who feels comfortable with different kinds of gender labels and whose gender identity is not limited to one gender and may encompass all genders at once. It comes with an understanding that the vast and diverse multiplicity of genders within the same individual can extend infinitely, always within the person’s own culture and life experience, and may or may not include unknown genders.
Cari Rez Lobo first proposed the Pangender Pride flag in 2015 on Tumblr. The suggested pride flags for the Pangender Spectrum are based on the agender pride flag. The colors are extremely vibrant (like the brightness has been turned up) to symbolize the diversity of genders as white light, in the electromagnetic spectrum, is a combination of all colors.
The other color of the pangender pride flag also have meaning:
- Yellow is for all genders that aren’t connected to female and male and are represented by the yellow color.
- Light red color denotes the transition between the genders of female and male.
- Light violet-pink represents female and male.
- White symbolizes the union of all of these genders.
