Artist and gay rights activist Gilbert Baker designed this flag in 1978. He came up with the design after prominent gay rights leader Harvey Milk urged him to create a new, positive symbol that the entire LGBTQIA+ community could rally behind. Baker thought a rainbow flag would better represent the beautiful diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community. He also considered the powerful symbolic significance of rainbows throughout history.
Designed by Daniel Quasar in 2018, it adds five new colors to emphasize progress around inclusion. The flag includes black and brown stripes to represent people of color, and baby blue, pink and white, which are used in the Transgender Pride Flag. The newest rendition includes the intersex pride symbol.
This Demisexual Pride Flag represents a section of the asexual community that develops sexual attraction to someone only after forming a deep emotional bond with them. It’s unknown when, exactly, the flag was created, but it includes four colors: black (representing asexuality), gray (asexuality and demisexuality), white (sexuality), and purple (community).
This flag represents people who either do not experience romantic attraction or do so in a nontraditional way. There were two earlier versions of this flag: It’s not known when the first one was created, but both the second and the final/current version were designed in 2014. The color green represents aromanticism, and it appears in two shades in the flag, along with white (platonic and aesthetic attraction), gray (gray-aromantic and demiromantic people), and black (the sexuality spectrum).
This flag features gender-neutral colors yellow and purple. The circle "represents wholeness, completeness and the intersex people’s potentiality," according to the University of Northern Colorado. Intersex is an umbrella term for people with variations in sex characteristics that don’t fit neatly in the binary of male or female. Some intersex people are born with varying reproductive anatomy or sex traits — some develop them later in life. About 1.7 percent of people are born intersex.
Kyle Rowan is behind the nonbinary pride flag, released in 2014. The yellow is for those whose gender is outside the traditional binary; the white for those with all genders or multiple ones; the purple for those who identify as a male and female mix; and the black for those who don't have a gender.