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A field guide to Pride flags Posted on June 27, 2013

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It’s almost time for SF Pride, and that means the city is sprouting rainbow ags like owers in the desert
after a rainstorm. By now most people know what the rainbow signi es, but what about those other
striped ags you see waving at Pride events? I thought I knew most of their meanings, but I recently came
across the most Pride items I’ve ever seen in one place, and they had keychains with ags that I’d never
seen before (and my of ce is a castle that ies Pride ags from the turrets).

Here’s a quick overview of all the ones I could nd online, plus a more detailed history and analysis for
each further down. My sources are cited in-line or listed at the end.

The top 3 are the ones most commonly seen at Pride events.

Edited on 6/27/15: Updated/added some ags based on reader feedback. Rearranged  ag order to loosely
group by category.

The Gay Pride Rainbow

Ah, the rainbow ag. Such a beautiful and bold statement, hard to ignore or mistake for anything else.
(also easy to adapt to every kind of merchandise you can imagine)

Wikipedia has an extensive article on it, but here are the more interesting bits:

The original Gay Pride Flag was rst own in the 1978 San Francisco Pride Parade, and unlike its modern
day 6-color version it was a full rainbow – it included hot pink, turquoise, and indigo instead of dark blue.
Each of the stripes had a particular meaning associated with it, but mostly I think they just wanted a purty
rainbow.

The pink stripe was removed relatively quickly due to fabric unavailability. The turquoise was taken out a
year later when the 7-striped ag was hung vertically from lamp posts on SF’s Market Street, but the
middle stripe was obscured by the post so they yanked turquoise to make it an even number of stripes.
This was also when blue replaced indigo, which I assume was done to balance out the removal of the
turquoise.

It’s been the same since 1979 and is recognized internationally. Awesome.

Leather Pride

Also known as “black and blue with love,” the leather pride ag is not associated with any particular sexual
gender preference (though it’s used most commonly by gay men) but instead indicates a preference for
kink. The “leather subculture” is somewhat hard to de ne as it encompasses a wide variety of activities. In
general they all involve two things: leather and sex, although in modern times it’s also used for BDSM
(which doesn’t necessarily include leather) or people who really really like wearing leather clothing (but
not necessarily for a sexual purpose).

In fact, the leather ag has grown to represent so many other sub cultures that it’s spawned a huge variety
of sub- ags. Here are some examples, taken from The Queerstory Files (I’ve swapped out the dog/puppy
ag they used in the original article for the more common variant) and their meanings. Head over to that
article for de nitions of each.

The original leather pride ag was debuted at the International Mr. Leather event in 1989 (exactly 47 days
after I was born). The colors and symbol have no of cial meaning. (source)

Fun fact: The image under the ‘History’ section of the leather pride ag’s wikipedia article is of the ag
ying from Kink’s turret. :)

Bear Pride

In general, a “bear” is a large, hairy, overtly masculine gay man – however, the community champions
inclusion and self-identi cation is the only required characteristic. Sometimes slim but hairy men are
called “otters,” and bears who are younger or sexually submissive are called “cubs,” which I nd completely
adorable. (source)

The Bear Pride ag was designed by Craig Byrnes, who did his undergraduate senior project on the bear
community as well as being a part of it himself. His research gave him inspiration to design a ag for the
growing community and in 1995 he sketched out four different designs in crayon. These were voted on
during a meeting of the Chesapeake Bay Bears club, and the winning design was circulated amongst bear
communities throughout the United States. (source) It is now used by bear communities around the world.

The colors represent the fur colors of all the different types of actual bears around the world.  (source)

Bisexual Pride

The bisexual pride ag was introduced in 1998 by Michael Page as an effort to give bisexual people their
own rallying symbol similar to the gay rainbow ag. (source) The colors are an evolution of the “Biangle”
symbol, itself a play on the original pink triangle used to represent homosexuality. (source)

Pansexual Pride

Pansexuality is an interesting new categorization of sexual attraction. It’s de ned as being attracted to
people regardless of their gender or sex, which, unlike the strict de nition of “bi”-sexual, includes those
who fall outside the traditional gender binary. The pink represents being attracted to women, the blue
being attracted to men, and the yellow for being attracted to everyone else. (source)

There are some very cute sentiments online associated with pansexuality:

(source)

I couldn’t nd any references for the history of the ag, but I’m guessing it’s rather new seeing as most of
the uses for it are on tumblr.

Asexual Pride

Asexuality is a lack of sexual attraction or a low interest in sexual activity. The asexual community is
relatively new and not widely known, quite possibly because a lack of sexual interest causes much less
public outcry than an “inappropriate” sexual interest.

The ag was created in 2010 through a process spear-headed by the Asexuality Visibility and Education
Network (AVEN). The creation and selection was extremely democratic and took place entirely online. First
they asked for submissions, then posted all the designs in a poll. The community went through several
rounds of voting, and nally narrowed it down to the winner that you see above.  

Lesbian Pride

This ag features a “labrys,” a double-headed axe associated with early matriarchal Minoan societies and
favored by tribes of Amazon warriors who roamed the area that is now Kazakhstan. The labrys became
popular with lesbian culture in the 1970s, but has fallen out of common use since. (source)

The black triangle is a throwback to nazi Germany, similar to the pink triangle used by the general gay
movement. The black triangle denoted “anti-social” behavior, which included lesbianism.

Although the ag was created fairly recently (1999 by Sean Campbell) it’s not as popular now as it once
was, possibly because of the relative unknown of the symbols. (source)

Lipstick Lesbian Pride

A “lipstick” lesbian means a woman who is gay and has a very feminine gender expression. Often this
includes makeup (thus, lipstick), skirts, heels, etc.

This ag appears all over the internet, but it was very hard to nd information about its origin. I nally
traced it back to this post on a blog called This Lesbian Life. Reading through the author’s other posts,
many of which are very good btw, it’s clear she was frustrated by other people not believing she was gay
because she’s so femme. These are a couple lines from a blog post of hers called  “The 10 Worst Things
About Being a Lipstick Lesbian.”

2. Nobody ever believes that you’re gay,  and thinks that you’re just going through a phase because of
a bad boyfriend experience.
6. When you walk into a lesbian bar, everyone looks at you up and down and then whispers to each
other, “Well she went to the wrong place.”
9. When you come out to someone they always have a crazy look on their face and then say…”Well I
had no idea! You don’t seem gay!!!”

So, she created a ag of her own to represent a marginalized subgroup! Pretty cool.

Also, I think it’s seriously fucked up that this woman created this gorgeous ag, which is all over the
internet, but nobody credits her. She wasn’t that hard to nd, she’s on the 2nd page of a Google Search for
“lipstick lesbian pride ag.”

Polyamorous Pride

Polyamory is often described as “consensual, ethical, and responsible non-monogamy.” It’s basically the
practice of being in a relationship(s) with multiple people at the same time, and everyone involved
knowing about it and being ok.

Sadly for math nerds everywhere, the “pi” in this ag merely symbolizes the letter “p” for the rst letter of
“polyamory.” The ag was created by Jim Evans, but I couldn’t nd info on when or where. (source)

Update 6/27/15: The ag’s creator added this info in the comments:

“The ag was indeed designed by me, Jim Evans, in the summer of 1995 or so. The ‘pi’ symbol has taken some
heat over the years because of its obscurity, but yes, it was chosen to represent the rst letter of “polyamory.”
Part of the idea was to claim an arbitrary symbol that would be innocuous to people who didn’t know better,
allowing closeted polyfolk to remain discrete if their circumstances required it. As an additional bene t, it was
also a readily available typographic symbol on computing platforms at the time, and could be easily replicated
by nearly anyone, which was seen as a distinct advantage, given the limitations of the designer’s visual artistic
ability. I’m simply grati ed that enough people over the years have found it acceptable enough to keep using it.”

Update 2/26/16:

The above is the only real “ ag” design I could nd for polyamory, but a more common pride symbol
amongst the poly community is the ‘in nity heart’, or sometimes just an in nity sign.

Thanks to Zinnia from polyadvice.tumblr.com for letting me know!

Straight Pride

At rst I was amused to discover the existence of heterosexual pride ags, but after several minutes of
googling “straight pride” I realized they’re usually used by asshole conservative groups as an anti-gay
slogan. :\ Kinda like “white pride” actually means “we hate anyone who’s not white.” There are some
friendly uses of these, but not many. (source)

Straight Allies Flag

This ag is designed for straight people who are proud allies of gay people. Why they can’t just wave a
normal rainbow ag I don’t know, but here it is!

It emerged sometime in the late 2000s, but I couldn’t nd any info on where it came from. The rainbow
triangle thing in the middle is supposed to be an ‘A’ for ‘Activism’ or ‘Ally’ or something, with the black and
white stripes representing the straight part. (source)

Intersex Pride

“Intersex” is a term for people who are born with mixed primary or secondary sex characteristics, making
them both female and male. This condition shows up in approximately 1% of the population, though many
recognized forms of it are subtle enough to go undetected for an entire lifetime. (source)

Update 6/27/15: This ag was debuted by OII Australia in July of 2013 as a rallying point for Intersex
people, “one attempt to create something that is not derivative, but yet is rmly grounded in meaning.” The
colors yellow and purple were chosen because they’re seen as fairly gender neutral – neither pink nor
blue. The circle symbolizes wholeness or completeness. (source)

My original post listed the below striped ag as Intersex Pride. This ag was somewhat controversial in
the Intersex community, the main complaints being that it’s too close to the Transgender Pride ag and
that it had also been intended to represent “Bigender” peoples. Intersex is distinctly different from
Transgender or Bigender, so OII created their distinctly different ag. The debate continues, however.
(source)

This ag, designed by Natalie Phox in 2009, blends the two stereotypical gender-binary baby colors, pink
and blue, in lavender stripes on the side and a gradient in the middle. (source)

Transgender Pride

The transgender pride ag was created by Monica Helms, a transgender woman, in 1999. The two colored
stripes represent the traditional colors for baby boys and girls, and the white is for those of intersex,
neutral, or other genders.

The ag is intentionally symmetric so that however you hang it, it is in the ‘correct’ orientation. Helms says
this was to represent transgender people nding “correctness” in their lives. (source)

Update 6/27/15: The above ag is still the most commonly recognized Transgender Pride Flag, but a lot of
variants have sprung up. (source 1) (source 2)

Genderqueer Pride

The Genderqueer Pride ag was created by Marilyn Roxie in 2010 with help from the Genderqueer internet
community. The lavender is a mix of the traditional blue and pink gender colors for people who are a little
of both, the green is meant to be the “inverse” of lavender for those outside the binary, and the white
represents gender neutrality. (source)

“Genderqueer” is a term I have become increasingly fond of lately. It’s an extremely inclusive “catch-all” for
anyone who doesn’t feel like they t into one of the two standard gender de nitions. Unlike most other
pride ags, which represent groups of people who ‘are’ something (people who are gay, transgender,
asexual, etc.), genderqueer is for people who are not either of the traditional 2 genders. It’s a group for
people who feel like they don’t t into the normal de nition, and I think that’s pretty awesome.

Genderfluid Pride

(Added on 6/27/15)

Gender uid is a term for someone who’s gender changes over time. Their gender identity can vary at
random or in response to different circumstances. Gender uid people may also identify as multigender,
non-binary and/or transgender. (source)

The ag was created by JJ Poole, and the colors represent the various states that gender uid people may
nd themselves in – pink for feminine, blue for masculine, purple for a mix of the two, white for no
gender, and black for all genders. (source)

Rubber Pride

At a very basic level rubber fetishism is similar to leather fetishism, in that it revolves around clothing
made of rubber (latex, PVC, polyurethane, etc.). Likewise, it has developed a signi cant number of
associated sub-fetishes. (source)

The Rubber Pride ag has existed since 1994, developed by Peter Tolos and Scott Moats. It was created by
the two during a Vulcan America meeting in the hopes it could be used for rubber enthusiasts to nd like-
minded partners. Since the Rubber community is signi cantly smaller than the Leather or Bear
communities, and its members tend not to wear their gear in public, it was especially dif cult back then
for fetishists to nd each other.

The ags designers wanted something different from the uniform horizontal stripes that had become
standard for pride ags, so they chose a black base with red and yellow for their brightness. The yellow
was originally intended to represent watersports, and the red blood, but the interpretation has changed
since.

Instead of using straight bars they added the zigzag to make a ‘V’ (since it had come out of a Vulcan
America meeting) and also because the ag indicates a kink. Peter Tolos cheerfully said “It’s a kinky ag!”
(source)

Literally. :)

Master/slave Pride

The Master/slave pride ag was debuted at the Master/slave conference in Washington DC on July 29,
2005. (doesn’t a Master/slave conference sound way more fun than WWDC?) It was designed by Master
Tallen and his slave Andrew. (source)

Before the creation of this ag the M/s (and Dom/sub) community tended to use the Leather Pride ag, but
Master Tallen felt this was inappropriate since plenty of members of the M/s community did not identify as
leather or kink fetishists. (nor were they all gay men, the group the leather ag is most commonly
associated with)

The symbols represent, to nobody’s surprise, master and submissive. The single vertical line is for
authority, power, or dominance. The grouping of three horizontal lines is apparently a standard
psychological symbol for submission or ‘passive intellect.’ (source) I assume they went with black and red
because they’re dramatic and pretty.

Ownership Pride

(Added on 6/27/15)

Ownership is derived from the Master/slave dynamic, with a greater emphasis on rules and de ned
behavior between owner and property. There is a pretty legit website with a 10-point manifesto, starting
with the following:

1. What is Possession?

Central to O&P is the concept of Possession: having control and use for one’s own purposes of that which is
possessed, involving some or all of the rights associated with property ownership. This is asymmetric and
unequal in status. While the submissive is in the dominant’s possession they are fundamentally there for the
dominant, obeying the dominant, and subject to the dominant’s decisions. The dominant is the submissive’s
superior, just as an employer is their servant’s superior. The unambiguous, honest, and hierarchical nature of
O&P provides clarity about what is to be done, and who is to do it, without the manipulation and unstated quid
pro quo of so many relationships. (source)

The website also goes into extensive detail about the design of the ag, and it’s pretty obvious the
designer knew what they were doing since they mention things like the rule of tincture, the rst rule of
heraldic design. The shield represents the owner as protector and head of household, and the circle
represents the collar, a pretty universal symbol for submissives and slaves. The striped background is a
shoutout to the original leather pride ag, with the emphasized color difference helping to illustrate the
extreme power dynamic of the relationship. (source)

ABDL Pride

(Added on 6/27/15)

Adult Baby / Diaper Lover (ADBL) is a fetish community based around adults role playing as babies or using
classic baby items such as diapers. This can be sexual, but is not necessarily so. (source)

I feel this is one of the more self-explanatory ags – the pin is a diaper pin, and the colors are the usual
pastel gendered baby colors. (source)

There is also this white-striped heart over a pink and blue background symbol that is associated with this
community, but I can’t nd additional information about it as a ag – it mostly seems to exist as Zazzle
merchandise. (source)

Note, 4/23/17: I was contacted by a member of the ABDL community who wanted to note that this ag is not a
universally accepted or commonly used symbol ofABDL pride, it is primarily used by the ag’s creator. When I
asked if there were more commonly-used symbols, they said ‘not really’ as theABDL community is more the type
to stay out of the spotlight of pride.

Fat Pride

“Fat Fetish” is fairly self explanatory, although there are many self-identi ed fetish classi cations inside of
the general community. These include ‘fat body worship,’  ‘erotic weight gain,’ and ‘growth role-
play.’ (source) The ag is fairly new, created in 2011 by Kevin “The Cosmopolitan” Seguin. (source) The
colors are based off of Neapolitan Ice Cream, which I nd rather cute.

This is actually the second version of the ag – the rst version, which had a similar theme but was much
simpler, met with some resistance by the community.

Pony Pride

(Added on 6/27/15)

Pony Play is the fetish practice of treating humans as horses, which can include things like wearing hooves
and ears (similar to puppy play), wearing tack (bridles, saddles, etc.) and pulling carts. (source)

The ag was created by Carrie P (Mystic Storm) in 2007. The predominant black background honors the
leather community at large, and the other colors represent various aspects of the pony community. The
horse shoes represent, well, ponies. (source)

Military/Uniform Pride

(Added on 6/27/15)

I have found remarkably little information on this ag – I can nd its existence mentioned in various
places, but only one source for the image itself, which has no information beyond a note that it’s been
around for a while but the creator is unknown. (source)

Uniform Fetish revolves around wearing uniforms during play – very often these will be military uniforms,
but I have seen the term used in a very broad sense as well (think nurses and schoolgirls).

Feather (Drag) Pride

The Feather Pride ag is associated with the Drag community. The symbol is a phoenix, representing the
ery passion that sprang up in the drag community during the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
(source)

The ag was created by Sean Campbell, the same man who created the labrys Lesbian Pride ag above.
Campbell designed several other ags for niche communities, but these seem to be the two that have
survived in common usage.

General Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Agge.se/sandbox/List_of_pride_ ags_and_sexual_identity_symbols

http://leiandlove.deviantart.com/art/Ultimate-LGBTQ-Flag-Guide-236048103

Most graphics pulled from Google Images.

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Brad Is there a ag for zeta pride?

1/19/16
12:32 pm

Anonymous There is only two sexual operations that are okay. Heterosexual and asexual.
12/20/15
3:11 pm

Anonymous You realize that asexual could be gay right? They can still fall in love with people and they can have a homoromatic relationship
1/6/16
2:31 pm

pony pride please leave the earth you suck m8

1/7/16
7:28 am

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anonymous Why is there no pedo pride ag?

11/4/15
5:53 pm

Anonymous you need to be kinkshamed. pedophelia is illegal. any children (consenting or not) involved are being molested or raped and that’s
11/14/15
5:39 pm not okay. pedos are truly the dirt of society.

Anonymous Same! There should be a Pedo pride ag. You shitheads always yell on about how “Love is Love” and this is Love too, you hypocritical
12/14/15
5:03 am shits.

Anonymous Love is love as long as it’s consensual

12/15/15
11:23 am

Cas The only reason it isn’t ok is because if you have sexual relations with a child as an older aged person, it can damage the child’s sexual
1/19/16
7:42 pm organs. Other than that I think it is mostly ok. Love is love, and love has no age boundaries, but please wait until they’re a healthy age
to have sex with them.

Clare Bayley I normally have a high tolerance for bullshit in my blog comments, but this made me feel physically ill.
1/21/16
9:22 pm
What you’re saying is “make sure they’re developed enough to t your dick inside them without tearing anything” which is
completely not ok.

You seem to believe that “love is love” means “all kinds of relationships are ok and unproblematic,” which is just false. There is an undeniable
and overwhelming power & knowledge differential between adults and children that makes the concept of a young child consenting to a
relationship with an adult completely ludicrous. There is no possible way the child can fully understand what they are agreeing to, I don’t care
how you try to spin it. And without active and informed consent, it’s not sex, it’s rape.

I am locking all future comments on this post.

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Chelsea Kingsley
This is wonderful. I love that you have sources. I am bisexual, but I believe that we should all be proud of what/who we are. Being
9/17/15
10:10 am that as it is, I am using this eld guide to help me make stock for an upcoming pridefest. I have a printed copy that, provided you
are alright with it, I would like to keep on hand. I am making Straight-Pride ags as well as Ally ags because both things are
hugely important to our community, and although there are those out there who would use the Straight Pride ag to put down
LGBT+ peoples, I want to be part of the movement that breaks down that negative ideal. I think that this is one of the next great parts of the Gay Rights
movement, it’s not just about gay rights. It’s about equality. That means everyone gets to be proud of who they are. Thanks again for this, it has been very
helpful and informative and I’m so glad to have come across it while doing my research!

Bill Chelsea, yes that is why the gender list is constantly growing. We found at Coast Atlantic in putting these designs on beautiful ag pins
9/24/15
3:50 pm how vast the community is. Some were generated as early as Sept. 4 when someone asked about an Omnisexual ag which was a off
shoot of the Gender uid design combined with the Gay Pride Rainbow design.
Yes this de antly states the pride in what or who we are. I even found a Cosmic Gender how exciting! We are putting all of our LBGTQ ag pins on cards
with their descriptions as accurately as possible especially the colors which designers in the community worked so hard in gathering and putting
together. I hope these will be useful at Gay Pride events just let us know, as we are still in the infant stage.

Tom I love this can someone tell me where i can buy ags like these as I’m in a Pride event coming up. Thank You :)
8/22/15
2:44 am

Bill Coast Atlantic is starting to produce the different sexuality and gender ags as beautiful lapel pins. We try to keep the information and
9/10/15
the colors as accurate as possible. We feel everyone should feel free to express themselves and enjoy what this new future has to offer.
3:31 pm
We should all be proud of who we are. Feel free to contact me anytime, we are a small
American Made only company Bill.

pony pride WILL YOU JOIN ME IN PONY PLAY PLEASE I LIKE IT UP THE ASS
1/7/16
7:29 am

pony pride WANNA HELP ME FIND SOME LITTLE KIDS TO FUCK PLEASE
1/7/16
7:30 am

Kat How about a “It’s nobody’s damn business who, how many, or how I have sex with, or without ” ag?
8/16/15
7:48 pm

Kittenfeathera The white striped heart with blue and pink background is Littles’ Pride. Littles aren’t necessary part of AB/DL, though there are
8/6/15
7:03 pm similarities.

Michael This is The Stupidest group of Fuck I’ve seen in a while. Aside from being a Hypocritical Whore about the Straight Pride Flag, you’re
7/16/15
10:36 pm shitting all over Conservatives and your Allies, which makes you a Horrible fucking person. Long Story short, you Need to Kill Yourself.

Victoria Blackmon Please sir get out from behind you computer and go to a BDSM event with that same attitude. Please. I’m begging you to be a
7/21/15
6:03 am royal douche bag in front of hundreds kinky people who identify with these ag. Please. Come join us. We’ll be waiting.

Andrea You need to not tell people to kill themselves. I don’t. Care what situation your in, never tell someone to kill themselves, because
11/30/15
4:46 pm those words stick, and after awhile they weigh you down until your drowning in your own depression, and do kill yourself. You might
not care now, but that person that just killed themselves might have been your future doctor who would save your life or a family
member of yours. There brain might be able to solve cancer or saved someone else’s life but you stopped them from doing that,
and sure, some one else can come up with something to solve it, but how long will it take for them to do that? A year? Two? Millions of people die in
that time that they could have saved, but you, you killed that person beforehand. Yes, you might have never physically touched them, but your related
to their death and therefore a part of it. So I ask you please, don’t tell people to kill themselves

David Lindner Thank you, I enjoy studying ags of all sorts (vexiology) and this page had been very informative. Great research on the origin and
7/14/15
5:27 pm creators of these ags. Thanks again David

eric i am disgusted that people assume a straight pride ag means we are war mongering, conservative religious cults hating gays because we
7/9/15
7:46 pm want a ag to. i am straight, liberal, live in the San Francisco bay area. why can’t i be proud to be straight? haters…

Andrea They weren’t saying that you couldn’t be straight and support gay people or be liberal, they’re saying that the people who created it
11/30/15
4:50 pm had that intent. And they said that not every one uses it that way.

Kbrown I kinda like the “straight pride” ag. I might order one of those.
7/6/15
12:48 pm

Crystal I am so happy to nd such an extensive list. I wondered if there were a ag for straight pride as I am putting together a cross stich piece
7/5/15
10:02 am for our new church. At the top it will say “Have Faith” in the center I will be stithing each ag and at the bottom it will say “all are
welcome”. We are extremely lucky to have found a church that doesn’t only claim acceptance but truly accepts! Our pastor is gay!!! :)

DAVID LANDER Went to my rst gay pride yesterday. To take my 16 year old lesbian daughter and to show how proud of her I am. I bought lots of
7/5/15
4:52 am rainbow stuf ng by the end I came home looking like a skittles factory. Ha ha great fun. But, I would have like to see a ag which
represents my feelings. Something that states. ‘i am a proud parent and I accept her and support her 100%’ I bought an ‘ally’ pin
badge bought I felt like it didn’t represent my feelings 100 percent. I would like someone to come up with a parent pride ag. If there
isn’t one… Can I design it? :)

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A nony mouse Check the big little podcast folks, mako and spacey for the ab/DL emblem
6/29/15
7:06 pm

Kristyn Fourie This is an awesome post! Thank you :)

6/29/15
7:04 am
There is also a DD/lg Pride Flag…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DDlg_Pride_Flag.svg

James Why is it that gay pride isnt sexist, native pride isnt racist but white pride is racist and straight pride is against fags? Am i not allowed to
6/28/15
6:07 pm be a proud straight white male? Thats sexism and racism at its nest. Black people put us down for what our ancestors did, indians put us
down and demand money and every thing possible from us for what our ancestors did. Shit get over it people do you see the germans
paying off the jews? Ya im german and have been put down for that too but i had nothing to do with it. Like it or not i am not white i am
german and i am more of a minority group than any native, black or gay person so wheres my special treatment? Wheres my welfare check? Ya thats right im
nothing but shit in the country i was born in

C.Belli Go back to stormfront. As for why straight pride is seen as being “against fags”… well, I think you answered your own question there
6/29/15
5:00 pm with your choice of words, didn’t you mate?

Crystal You took the words right out of my mouth!

7/5/15
12:25 pm

me That’s exactly what I was thinking!

7/6/15
7:52 pm

Cassidy You, a straight, white, male, are more of a minority than any LGBTQ+, black, native american, female, or person of any other gender?
7/10/15
7:55 pm Wow. It must be hard being you, huh? Personally, I am a bit tired of all this fuss over straight pride. Do heterosexuals not understand
the huge efforts of the LGBTQ+ movement? Do they realize that LGBTQ+ people have to live with the fact that they might be red,
beaten up, or even in some places, sentenced to death for being LGBTQ+? I understand that straight people want to celebrate their sexuality too, but
that doesn’t entitle you to use rude names or bash a whole community of people who have worked so hard to be able to show who they are and who
they love.

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Wtf No masturbation pride?

6/12/15
11:29 am

Andrew Ward Where can these ags be purchased?

6/11/15
1:57 pm

Dee Pride Shack has ags like these. http://www.PrideShack.com

6/12/15
10:18 pm

Jim Evans
Re: The Polyamory Pride Flag: The ag was indeed designed by me, Jim Evans, in the summer of 1995 or so. The ‘pi’ symbol has taken
6/10/15
6:49 pm some heat over the years because of its obscurity, but yes, it was chosen to represent the rst letter of “polyamory.” Part of the idea was to
claim an arbitrary symbol that would be innocuous to people who didn’t know better, allowing closeted polyfolk to remain discrete if
their circumstances required it. As an additional bene t, it was also a readily available typographic symbol on computing platforms at the
time, and could be easily replicated by nearly anyone, which was seen as a distinct advantage, given the limitations of the designer’s visual artistic ability. I’m
simply grati ed that enough people over the years have found it acceptable enough to keep using it.

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David One missing – ABDL Pride! :-)

5/17/15
10:03 pm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adult_Baby_and_Diaper_Lover_Pride_Flag,_as_purposed_by_ABDL_Scandinavia.png

david devore All r just labels

4/24/15
3:52 pm

Andrea They may be labels but they help me nd a group of people who are like me, so I don’t feel alone, but yes they are all labels, we are
11/30/15
6:48 pm all human

Carmin Anna Cole Thanks So much for the Intersex ag addition. As a Public gure it is important that I educate on who I am, and getting people to
4/14/15
9:08 am acknowledge intersex (Very Dif cult at times). Though I’d like to see the Leather girl ag also, as this is one of my ags also;) Thank
You So Much!!!
XOXOXOX
Carmin Anna Cole

;alskdfj Where’s gender uid pride?

3/18/15
10:35 am

pkt rkt or I rub my hands in shit pride!

7/9/15
10:24 am

Cas It’s there

1/19/16
10:38 pm

Papa David You should also consider including the Ownership & Possession ag. The image (as well as information concerning O&P) can be found
3/10/15
12:08 pm on the following website:
http://www.ownership-possession.com/ ag-explanation

Thepizzafox You forgot abdl pride ag http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/40/ABDL_symbol.svg/600px-ABDL_symbol.svg.png

2/17/15
9:07 pm

Kittykim Sadly the Leathergirl Pride ag is wrong….

2/12/15
11:13 am

Luna Bear Why is the Pony Pride ag missing? That’s a very popular one I see many places!
2/11/15
10:53 am

Vince Below the Leather Pride ag your comment of “boi pride” is incorrect. The green pride ag is called the “leatherboy Pride Flag”. Boi is a
2/11/15
9:00 am term used by the leather community to denote a female, not a male. The ag was never given the name boi, it was given the name boy.
However, the ag does absolutely include the boi community of females that display a masculine energy much like a boy. So I guess a fair
agreement would be to call it “boy/boi pride”. I hope you correct the information :)

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Coke Hearth You might want to read this blog for more information about the Ally ag:
9/6/14
12:48 am
https://www.tumblr.com/blog/cokehearth

Crochi Hi, I have seen a ag for Military fetish, but i didnt found it on here. Im looking for a link or something to a big pic of it. I have only found
6/22/14
3:33 pm pics of it that isnt much bigger than 3cm :(

roomyaj Why is the straight pride group the only one that you tear apart? Your amazing.
6/3/14
6:02 am

Brianna Schultz Agreed. I thought that was in poor taste. It is silly to have straight pride, but seeing the straight ag helps you understand the
5/2/15
5:06 pm colors behind the straight ally ag (which was also made fun of). Allies are a huge part of the community. If they don’t help
support us, it would be pretty hard to get anywhere.

Awesome job including the asexual ag :)

Andrea The comments were mean on the straight ag because it was made for a mean purpose. Not because being straight is bad, but
11/30/15
6:52 pm because the person who created it posted mean things about people of other genders preferences and had the intent on being mean.

lala Fat fetish needs to be changed to ‘body positive’ or ‘fat acceptance’. There is a lot of unwanted attention towards fat people from fat
1/10/14
5:47 pm fetishizers and to call ‘fat people’ a sexuality is grossly dehumanizing!! I don’t think you realize how offensive it is. Where is your ‘thin
fetish’ or ‘short people fetish’? Please remove. Thank you.

Mercy totally agree

11/4/14
2:20 pm

Areta There may not be ags for “thin fetish”, etc. The poster is simply sharing knowledge, not giving opinions. However, they did say that
11/24/14
3:44 am not all of these are sexualities. I’ve never met anyone who identi es as leather-sexual, the just say they have a leather fetish. If the
poster must take down the fat fetish, they must remove the other fetish ags. Finally, “body positivity” and “fat acceptance” are
completely different from a fat fetish. Body positivity is simply not caring about weight and seeing the beuty in heavy people. A fat fetish is a kink.
Heavy people actually turn you on.

momo Why ? They have no hairy girls pride ?

11/18/13
5:25 am

Dan Hi,
9/4/13
5:56 pm
There’s another pride ag I wanted to show you. It’s the ABDL pride ag. It’s blue and pink, split diagonally, with a red heart in the middle.
The heart has a white stripe. Here’s a link: http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c228/marionette_of_obscurum/ABDL.png

Katryna Wade I thought I’d tell you that ET (from ASMSA) lurks on your blog now. He too shy/silly to tell you himself. :)
6/29/13
1:51 am
(I do too, but I lurk less than him because I have no free time.)

Natalie Hi,
6/28/13
4:06 pm Thank you for putting up my lipstick lesbian ag. I’m glad you like it. Happy Pride!!!

Bill Natalie, we at Coast Atlantic are proud to have just nished creating yourLipstick Lesbian Flag Pin, we would love to send you a couple
9/24/15
3:54 pm to have. Just drop us a note and I, Bill will personally send them to you just to say thank you for showing your pride with color.

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