The annual LGBTQ+Pride Monthevents attract millions of participants from all around the world.
However, it’s not the only flag with which people in the community now have to connect.
Philadelphia’s Office of LGBT Affairs teamed up with a design agency and created the Philly Pride Flag.
It is humbling, a little bit surreal."
Helms recalled when she knew what the flag was going to look like.
I got up and drew it out and liked what I saw.
In 2000, Helm’s creation debuted at the Pride Parade in Phoenix, Arizona.
The pink and blue stripes on the flag represent the colors customarily related to girls and boys.
The banner featured shades of pink, white and red.
The flag was designed to incorporate all lesbians, including trans lesbians, from across the range of identities.
Thank you so much for all the love I’ve been shown since then.
The lesbian communities I’m a part of mean so much to me."
Instead, the circle is unbroken and unornamented, symbolizing wholeness and completeness and our potentialities.
While this isn’t the first intersex flag, this is the most commonly used.
They said they didn’t feel like they identified with the term “bisexual.”
That’s when they decided to design a flag.
Bisexual Flag
The Bisexual Pride Flag has been flying proudly for almost 24 years.
It was conceived by bisexual activist Michael Page and revealed on December 8, 1998.
According to Page, the reasoning behind the flag’s colors is symbolism.
Curry also shared that the flag and its colors mirrored all the facets of her sexuality.
Genderqueer Flag
In the summer of 2011, synth musician Marilyn Roxie created the genderqueer flag.
During an interview withThe Buzz, Roxie explained color choices and what they represented.
Roxie stated, “Lavender is a color that has long been seen as queer.
White is in the middle and represents a gender (without gender) or neutral gender identity.
Green, the inverse of Lavender, the representation of identities beyond and without reference to the binary two.
Non-binary Pride Flag
Kyle Rowan created the Non-Binary Flag in 2014 while just 17 years old.
White stands for people that feel they identify with all genders or many of them.
Agender Pride Flag
Staten Island native Salem X created the Agender Pride Flag in 2014.
Salem also noted that she was happy that the asexual flag ended up sticking in the community.
In November 2014, an Australian namedCameroncreated the Aromantic Pride Flag.
Cameron’s flag wasn’t the first aromantic flag that had been designed but is the third.
The green and light stripes at the top of the flag represent the aromantic spectrum.
The white stripe signifies the importance of platonic relationships and non-romantic love.
Every year after Valentine’s Day, the community celebratesAromantic Spectrum Awareness Week.
