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 Queer Pride Flag is one such flag, which you may have seen flying at any number of pride celebrations throughout the world, from Hamburg to Yokohama to Seattle…or anywhere in between!
Queer is an identity in and of itself that more and more people are choosing to identify with. It is a sort of label for those who don’t want to put themselves in a box. Often considered a movement, queer people are those who fall outside of and/or renounce the cultural norms around sexuality, gender identity, and/or gender expression.
The word queer can mean different things to different people, but the most accepted definition is someone who is not cishet or someone with variant experiences with orientation, gender, and/or sex.
One of the first flags created explicitly as the “queer flag” was designed by Pastelmemer in 2015. There are not many alternative flags but this still the most popular. On this flag:
- The shades of pink next to each other and shades of blue next to each other symbolize same-gender attraction.
- The orange and green are for non-binary individuals.
- Black and white are for asexual, aromantic, and agender spectrum individuals.
