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The flags used across sexuality, gender identity, and fetish communities — who designed each one, when it appeared, and what its colors and symbols are meant to carry. Select any flag to view it in full.
This isn't a definitive or official registry — it's the flags most commonly recognized and identifiable. Know one that should be added? Let me know.
Designed by Gilbert Baker, the flag debuted in 1978 at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day. The pink stripe represents sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit. In 1979, when the flag went into mass production, the hot pink and turquoise stripes were dropped since they weren't commercially available.
The six-colour version of the mass-produced 1979 flag spread from San Francisco to cities worldwide and became the widely recognized symbol of LGBT pride and diversity — even recognized by the International Congress of Flag Makers. Many countries have their own variations, incorporating national symbols such as the US flag, the Union Jack, the Canadian maple leaf, the Southern Cross, and the Silver Fern.
In 2017, the Philadelphia Office of LGBT Affairs launched this eight-stripe flag above Philadelphia City Hall. It added black and brown stripes to the standard six-colour flag to increase the visibility of people of colour within the community, who often face additional discrimination through both racism and homophobia.
In 2018, the Seattle LGBTQ Commission, SEqual Seattle, and Mayor Jenny Durkan flew this eleven-stripe flag over Seattle City Hall, aiming to bring visibility to the spectrum of gender identities, the transgender community, and people of colour within the LGBTQIA community.
"The black and brown stripes represent people of color — and the pink, light blue and white stripes represent trans, gender non-binary, intersex and folks across the gender spectrum. These particular communities within the LGBTQ+ umbrella are often made invisible and disproportionately impacted by discrimination, but are integral to our community." — Seattle LGBTQ Commission
Non-binary designer Daniel Quasar reinterpreted the 1978 Baker design to keep the added inclusivity of the Philadelphia and Seattle flags while sharpening the original rainbow stripes and placing marginalized communities at the forefront. For Quasar, the light blue, pink, and white stripes represent trans and non-binary people, and the brown and black stripes represent marginalized people of colour — the black stripe carrying a double meaning as a reference to those living with AIDS and the stigma surrounding them.
"The arrow points to the right to show forward movement [...] and illustrates that progress still needs to be made." — Daniel Quasar
Quasar posted the design on 6 June 2018 and it quickly went viral, later releasing it under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use. Quasar has since developed interchangeable arrow-and-background merchandise to accommodate further redesigns — a fitting reminder that the flag is always a work in progress.
Abrosexuality describes a fluid sexual orientation — one that may shift over time. Designed by a moderator of flags-for-us, the flag features five horizontal stripes in shades of pink, white, and green; the reasoning behind the specific colours is unknown.
The Asexual Visibility and Education Network created this flag in 2010 after an online call for input and votes; it premiered in 2011 at pride parades in San Francisco, London, Stockholm, and Toronto. Four vertical bars divide the field: black for asexuality, grey for gray-asexuality or demisexuality, white for sexuality, and purple uniting the three to represent community.
Aromanticism describes little or no romantic attraction to others. The flag's five horizontal bars open with two shades of green, chosen as the opposite of red — a colour often associated with romance — followed by white, grey, and black bars representing the wider spectrums of gender, sexual identity, and sexuality.
Designed by Michael Page, the flag debuted in December 1998 at BiCafe's first anniversary party. It evolves the earlier pink-and-blue-triangle bisexual symbol: the resulting purple where the two colours overlap represents the middle ground between them.
Demisexuality is sexual attraction that arises only after a strong emotional connection forms, largely independent of gender. A large white bar at the hoist represents allosexuality, a large grey bar at the ground represents demisexuality, and a narrow purple band between them represents community. The black triangle at the mast is the AVEN triangle. The flag's origin is unknown.
As the rainbow flag came to represent the broader LGBTQIA+ community, some gay men sought a flag for their own identity within it. Proposed on Tumblr in 2019, it faced criticism for resembling the lesbian pride flag before gaining wider acceptance. Its five (sometimes seven) colours run from green to white to purple: green and turquoise represent community and healing, white represents gender-nonconforming, transgender, and non-binary people, and blue to purple represent love, diversity, and fortitude. The designer is unknown.
Grey asexuality sits between asexuality and allosexuality, describing people who experience sexual attraction only occasionally. Designed by Milith Rusignuolo in 2013, purple signifies no sexual attraction, fading to white to represent occasional experiences of attraction before shifting back to asexuality.
The origin of this flag's design is unclear, and available accounts of its symbolism are inconsistent. It premiered in 2010 and has since seen informal use across the community as a way to mark lesbian pride specifically, apart from the broader rainbow flag above.
The lavender field represents the lesbian community, charged with a black triangle — a symbol used in Nazi Germany to designate prisoners labelled as anti-social, including lesbians — containing a labrys, an ancient double-sided axe associated with matriarchal societies across Europe, Africa, and Asia. Created by Sean Campbell in 1999, it was first used nationally in 2000 for a Pride edition of GLT Magazine.
Omnisexuality describes attraction to people regardless of their sexual identity or gender, commonly aligned with pansexuality. Five horizontal lines run pink (femininity), purple (agender identities) at center, and blue (masculinity). The designer is unknown.
Appearing online across multiple sites in mid-2010, the flag was designed to increase visibility for the pansexual community. Blue represents those who identify within the male spectrum regardless of biological sex, pink those within the female spectrum, and the yellow band between them represents non-binary attraction, including transgender and intersex people.
Three equal horizontal stripes carry the meaning: blue for the openness and honesty among all partners in multiple relationships, red for love and passion, and black for solidarity with those who, though open and honest with their partners, must hide those relationships from the outside world due to societal pressure. The gold Greek lowercase pi at center — the first letter of "polyamory" — represents the value placed on emotional attachment, whether the relationship is friendly or romantic, over the purely physical.
The red heart with a blue infinity symbol is the most widely recognized emblem of polyamory. This pride flag is simply a white field with that symbol centered.
Voted in by the community on polyamproud.com, this design by Red Howell won as the new standard. The white chevron indicates possibility, hope, and neutrality for poly relationships; blue represents openness and honesty; magenta represents desire, love, and attraction; purple represents a united non-monogamous community; and the gold heart represents energy and perseverance.
Three equal horizontal stripes represent attraction to multiple or alternate genders and sexualities: pink for female or feminine qualities, blue for male or masculine qualities, and a green center bar for non-binary genders and sexualities. The specific origin of the design is unknown.
A straight or heterosexual ally supports equal civil rights and gender equality for the LGBTQ+ community while identifying as heterosexual themselves. A rainbow-striped caret — for the "A" in ally — sits on a field of black and white stripes representing the heterosexuality of the supporter.
Agender describes identifying without a particular gender. Created in 2014, the flag's seven horizontal stripes run black (absence of traditional binary gender), grey (partial gender identity), green (non-binary gender), and back again. Green sits opposite purple on the colour wheel — purple often used for traditional binary genders as a mix of pink and blue.
Androgyny combines masculine and feminine features into an ambiguous, gender-neutral presentation. The flag's origin is unknown; its grey field represents ambiguity, and the blue-and-pink equal sign represents equality between genders.
A portmanteau for people who are both aromantic and asexual, or fall on the aromantic and asexual spectrums. Five horizontal bars run orange (community), yellow (love and relationships outside convention), white (wholeness), and light-to-dark blue (the spectrum of identities and experiences).
Created by Natalie Phox in 2009 to represent those born partially a member of both the male and female gender, or who transition toward both rather than fully toward one. The middle stripe blends pink and blue to symbolize that mix.
A demiboy (also demiguy or demiman) partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man or otherwise masculine, regardless of assigned gender at birth, and may also identify with another gender. Seven equal horizontal lines run dark grey (partial gender identity) at top and bottom, lighter grey (an alternate partial identity), blue (masculinity), and white (agender or non-binary).
A demigirl (also demiwoman or demifemale) partially, but not wholly, identifies as a woman or otherwise feminine, regardless of assigned gender at birth. The flag mirrors the demiboy design, swapping blue for pink to represent femininity alongside grey partial-identity bars and white for agender or non-binary.
Used by those who don't identify with a binary male/female gender system. Five horizontal bars begin with pink (femininity), move through black, purple, and white for the blurred lines of neutral and fluid genders, and close with a bar representing masculinity.
Presented on Tumblr in 2012 by an unnamed individual to represent people who experience fluctuations in gender identity over time. Five stripes span pink, yellow, green, blue, and purple — the multitude of colours representing fluidity between genders, with paler tones at the bottom marking fluctuation and a black line representing agender identity.
Accepted by the genderqueer community in September 2010. The top lavender stripe blends blue and pink to represent those who feel both male and female in identity; the chartreuse stripe, lavender's inverse, represents those who feel neither; and white represents those falling entirely outside the gender binary. Designed by Marilyn Roxie, this third version replaced an earlier design in June 2011.
A more recent alternate flag of unknown origin, not thoroughly accepted for resembling commercial colour schemes but still expanding in recognition. Five equal horizontal lines run purple (androgyny), robin's-egg blue (masculinity), yellow (genders outside the binary), pink (femininity), and orange, adopted as the inverse of purple to represent agender identities since yellow — purple's true opposite — was already spoken for.
Built on the idea that yellow represents gender neutrality between pink (female) and blue (male). Taking the rainbow spectrum from the gay pride flag, the design opens the range bordering yellow — orange and green — into a six-barred field, charged with a modified Mars/Venus symbol representing both genders. The designer is unknown.
A variant of the Mars/Venus design using the same principle — yellow as gender neutrality, with the spectrum opened around it into six bars — charged instead with a modified Mercury symbol. The designer is unknown.
Created in 2009 by Natalie Phox: five horizontal stripes running lavender, white, a double-width blue-to-pink gradient, white, and lavender. The gradient represents the range of sexes between male and female, and the lavender represents a combination of male and female traits.
Created by the Organisation Intersex International Australia in July 2013 to be "not derivative, but yet firmly grounded in meaning," deliberately avoiding gendered pink and blue. Yellow and purple are described as the intersex ("hermaphrodite") colours, and the flag is freely available for use by any intersex person or organisation in a human-rights-affirming context.
In 2014, Vesper H. coined "maverique" — from "maverick" and the French suffix "-ique" — for a nonbinary gender identity defined not as the absence of gender or apathy toward it, but as a present feeling of gender wholly independent of male, female, neutral, or any combination of them. Maveriques can still be multigender alongside this identity.
Neutrois is a non-binary identity often associated with a "neutral" or "null" gender, closely related to agender. Three equal horizontal lines run white (neutral, unidentified, or questioning gender), green (non-binary gender), and black (agender, asexuality, or third gender).
Designed by Kye Rowan in 2017 to sit alongside the Roxie genderqueer flag. Four horizontal bars run yellow (genders outside the binary), white (many or multiple genders), purple (a mix of the male/blue and female/pink binary), and black (no gender).
Pangender (or omnigender) refers to a wide multiplicity of genders, potentially stretching beyond current understanding, experienced simultaneously or over time. Designed in 2015 based on the agender flag, its seven stripes run yellow, pink, violet-pink, white, violet-pink, pink, yellow — bright tones chosen because white light itself is a blend of every colour. Yellow represents genders unrelated to female and male, light red the transition toward genders that are, light violet-pink their combination, and white the blend of all of them.
Skoliosexuality describes attraction to people with a non-binary gender. Four horizontal bars run yellow (non-binary gender), green (alternative genders — bigender, genderqueer, and others), white (inclusion of all non-binary identities), and black (inclusion of those without a gender identity), centered on an open lavender heart representing love for those outside binary genders and acceptance.
Designed by Monica Helms and debuted at a Phoenix, Arizona pride parade, this is the most widespread and recognized symbol of the transgender community. Light blue is the traditional colour for baby boys, pink for girls, and the white stripe in the middle stands for those transitioning, those with a neutral or no gender, and those who are intersex. The pattern reads correctly no matter which way the flag flies — meant to symbolize finding correctness in one's own life.
Created by Jennifer Holland in 2002, unaware at the time of the Helms flag, to give the transgender community its own symbol. Five horizontal stripes run from pink (female) at top to blue (male) at bottom, with three shades of purple between them representing the diversity of the transgender community and genders beyond male and female. More detail is available at transflag.org.
Created in 1991 by Transgender Nation, the Queer Nation's Transgender Focus Group, in San Francisco. The interlocked gender symbols in the flag's charge represent transgender people working in unity.
Trigender describes identifying with three genders — male, female, and/or a non-binary gender — simultaneously or shifting between them. Following the horizontal-bar schema of the 1978 flag, five bars in pink (feminine identity), blue (masculine identity), and green (a non-binary third gender) make up the design.
Emblems that predate the flag era, or that circulate alongside flags rather than as flags themselves.
Paragraph 175, the German law prohibiting homosexual relations, was revised by Hitler in 1935 to include kissing, embracing, and gay fantasy alongside sexual acts; convicted men were imprisoned, later sent to concentration camps, and sentenced to sterilization, most often through castration. From 1942 the punishment for homosexuality was extended to death. Prisoners in the camps wore a coloured inverted triangle marking the reason for their incarceration, forming a kind of social hierarchy: green for regular criminals, red for political prisoners, black for people with mental disabilities (which often included lesbians), and two overlapping yellow triangles forming a Star of David for Jewish prisoners — a yellow star beneath a pink triangle marking a gay Jewish prisoner, the lowest rank of all. The pink triangle itself marked homosexual men. Estimates of gay men killed under the Nazi regime range from 50,000 to twice that figure, and Paragraph 175 remained law in West Germany until its repeal in 1969.
Like the pink triangle, the black triangle traces back to Nazi Germany. Lesbians were not covered by Paragraph 175, but evidence suggests the black triangle was used to mark prisoners deemed "anti-social" — likely including lesbians, sex workers, women who refused to bear children, and others outside the regime's narrow ideal of womanhood. As the pink triangle is historically a male symbol, the black triangle has been reclaimed by lesbians and feminists as a mark of pride and solidarity.
In the early 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall, New York's Gay Activists Alliance adopted the Greek letter lambda — suggested by member Tom Doerr for its scientific use denoting kinetic potential — as its emblem. The symbol spread widely, sometimes worn as a discreet amulet recognizable within the community but unremarkable outside it.
The lowercase lambda carries layered meaning: to the Greeks, scales and balance; the hook at its base, the effort required to maintain that balance; to the Spartans, unity and a society that shouldn't infringe on individual freedom; to the Romans, the light of knowledge in darkness; in physics, an energy change. Ancient Greek soldiers are also reported to have carried the lambda on the shields of gay men and their lovers within the fighting elite of the Greek army.
Gender symbols descend from ancient Roman astrological signs: the pointed Mars symbol for male, the Venus symbol with a cross for female. Double interlocking male symbols have been used by gay men since the 1970s.
Double interlocking female symbols are often used to denote lesbianism, though some feminists have used the same pairing to represent sisterhood among women. Some 1970s lesbian feminists used three interlocking female symbols to represent a rejection of male standards of monogamy.
The astrological sign of Mercury is traditionally used as a symbol for transgender people. In Greek mythology, Hermes and Aphrodite had a child, Hermaphroditus, who possessed both male and female sexual organs — the origin of the term hermaphrodite. Rituals honouring Aphrodite are believed to have involved castration, transvestism, and homosexual relations.
In the symbol, the crescent moon at top represents the masculine and the cross at bottom the feminine, with the ring representing the individual balanced between them.
Introduced in 2019 by designer David Jatko as a uniting symbol for fetishists everywhere. At the core is the fetish symbol: the left and right segments of the circle depict people with open arms, and the top and bottom components represent the shared passion of their fetishes. It's set on a field of black, blue, and white stars echoing the 1989 DeBlase leather pride flag, though the designer notes the symbol can be placed on other fields for more personal meaning. Alternate versions include:
Six vertical lines fill the right of the field, representing the six continents and the array of skin tones meant to encompass all races. A thinner band of the same six bars angles from upper right to lower left, representing an arm reaching an apex in the corner — the armpit. Near the center, a red five-pointed star signifies the five senses, its top point aimed at the armpit; the red represents the blood shared by all armpit enthusiasts.
Represents people whose sexual preferences include bondage and discipline (BD) or sadism and masochism (SM), regardless of orientation. The triskelion asserts that fetishists deserve the same rights as anyone else, free of discrimination for their practices, and stands for the "threes" of BDSM: Dom, sub, and Switch; Safe, Sane, and Consensual. The symbol dates back thousands of years and was adopted so the community could recognize it without outsiders knowing its meaning.
The most widely recognized BDSM flag today. The original design called for a metallic triskelion, which isn't practical in flag form, so this adaptation — a derivative of the leather pride flag with a triskelion charged on the field — became the standard.
Designed by Craig Byrnes and elected the official Bear Pride flag at the 1995 CBB "Bears of Summer" event. The bars represent the range of fur colours bears might have, regardless of race or creed, and the bear claw in the canton is intentionally left without claws.
A black field centers a dark red oval representing a biker helmet, with a grey visor shape and a circular shape below it representing the biker's body. Red stands for the blood of all bikers, a shared and united passion; grey ties the imagery to all genders and races. Blue and white vertical stripes at either side nod to the leather community, a common thread within biker gear culture.
Debuted at Mid-Atlantic Leather 1998 by creator Keith P., inspired after meeting Tony DeBlase, designer of the Leather Pride Flag. It shares the leather flag's stripe count but sets them diagonally left to right — higher on the left for the Sir, lower on the right for the boy. The heart shifts to the right to mark where the boy's heart sits, and the blue becomes green to represent boy.
Less widely recognized than the bootblack flag below, this is a derivative of the leather pride flag with the red heart removed from the canton and a black boot charged on the field. Its origin is unknown.
Designed by Jesse "Spanky" Penley of Kansas City, premiering at International LeatherSIR/International Leatherboy weekend in Atlanta on October 6, 2005. Built from the Leather Pride colours, a diagonal stripe distinguishes it from that flag: two blue stripes and one white, their widths signifying the wide range of people who are, and who appreciate, bootblacks. The unisex boot represents the non-gender-specific nature of bootblacking, and the large red heart behind it signifies the heart a bootblack puts into their work.
Chavs, or charvers, are a subculture specific to English youth culture. The flag recreates the Burberry tartan pattern, a brand commonly associated with chav style, and was first seen at London Gay Pride in 2008.
This leather cowboy fetish flag was designed in 2001 by Sean Campbell, who also designed the lesbian labrys and Feather/Drag pride flags above.
Predating Campbell's design, Frank Harrell ("Cowboy Frank") created a symbol for the gay cowboy fetish community in March 1998, and it remains the more widely recognized "official" symbol. The original featured a cowboy hat in the canton of the gay pride rainbow; since a cowboy hat couldn't be produced as a flag without screen printing, Harrell sanctioned this simplified "true flag" version. Read the full etymology here.
Five equally spaced horizontal stripes run black, pink (strawberry), cream (french vanilla), brown (chocolate), and black — a play on Neapolitan ice cream, each colour standing for a distinct facet of the fetish. Created by Kevin Seguin ("The Cosmopolitan") as a symbol for the fat fetishism community. Read the full symbology here.
Designed as a symbol for the drag community — encompassing people of all sexual preferences into drag queens, fancy kings, their courts, and related fetishes. The phoenix, long embraced by the gay community as a symbol of rebirth, honours the fires of passion the drag community carried in fundraising for AIDS research during the early years of the epidemic. Created by Sean Campbell in 1999 and first used nationally as a graphic element for a pride edition of GLT Magazine.
Designed in 2018 by "MO," the field's diagonal orange, dark grey, and white stripes echo the common colour palette of calico cats. The red yarn captures both the whimsy and the potential for mass destruction inherent to the feline personality.
A black field with white footprints charged on it and a woven red-and-blue border. The origin and specific meaning of this flag are unclear. If you have information about its creation, get in touch.
Designed under the pseudonym Uboa, this flag breaks from the international 2:3 ratio in favour of an unusual 1:3 ratio, meant to evoke the shape of a foot in profile. The black field represents solidarity and community among foot fetishists; the blue stripe nods to the wider family of fetish pride flags. The white heart is left undefined, for the viewer to fill in with whatever they personally desire about feet — meant to include hosiery, footwear, footjobs, submission, crushing, shrimping, and related fetishes. Ten stars along the bottom represent the ten toes on an average pair of feet, positioned low to mirror the foot's place on the body, and red represents life, vitality, and love.
Created by Mitchel McAllister in 2004, debuting on the now-defunct "Freak Farm" website, to unite fetishists into tattoos, piercings, body modification, and unconventional appearance or fetish wear. The eleven-barred field mirrors six colours from the centre: black for change and strength, dark blue for fetish gear, maroon for the blood and bonds of body modification, dark goldenrod for the courage to be unique, grey for pierced metal, and white for purity of purpose. The canton is reversed to represent the journey away from the mainstream and the kinky edge of the community.
Represents the "furry" canine community, also referred to as yiffy, anthro, or morph. The flag's origin and specific symbolism are unknown, and its acceptance across the wider furry community couldn't be confirmed.
A simpler flag also representing the furry canine community. As with the version above, its origin and level of community acceptance are unconfirmed.
Represents the furry feline community. Pale blue at the top of the field represents the male gender, pink at center the female gender, and pale purple at the bottom the transgendered. A feline paw print at the center represents feline anthropomorphism across all gender boundaries. Designed by "Ponygirl Linsey" and posted on ponyplay.org, a Florida-based furry community.
A tribute to the leather pride flag, with its lines angled to represent the airflow patterns of a gasmask. A red gasmask icon at center represents the barrier between common air and the air available within the mask.
Evolved from a symbol established in 1990 by Erik Dunesque of London for people in the gothic sex scene to identify one another. The reversed Eye of Horus is charged on the flag in purple, a funereal colour, on a black field representing night and the dark sensuality of gothic sexuality.
A derivation of the original 1990 design for the LGBTQ community interested in gothic sexuality. Some versions reverse the rainbow, placing purple at the top as a nod to the original design's purple emphasis.
Created by Tanos in the UK in 2006 as part of the Ownership Icons project. The black-and-white striped field represents the clear distinction between owners and property, echoing the bars of a cage or the uniform stripes of a penal convict. The charge features a red shield with a thick circle representing the collar worn by owned submissives and slaves.
Designed by Tony DeBlase, the flag debuted in Chicago in May 1989 as a symbol for the leather subculture. DeBlase stated that the meaning of the flag's colours is left to the individual. Though most visible within the gay community, it stands as a symbol for the fetish community at large, regardless of orientation.
Presented to the longhaired community on 20 April 2009. Earlier symbols for the community existed but couldn't translate into an actual fabric flag; this design gave the community something meaningful to its members specifically. The field is striped red, purple, and blue, topped with a circular shape representing the crown of a head, with strands of colour extending downward in the many hair colours found across all races. Read the complete etymology here.
Unveiled at the Master/Slave Conference on 29 July 2005, designed by Master Tallen of Washington, DC. A black field carries an indented white border; the vertical stripe is a universal symbol of dominance, and the three horizontal red stripes universally signify submission. The flag was created to give the Master/Slave relationship a unifying symbol of pride.
This flag has circulated online for several years on personal webpages and within fetish communities. Its creator is unknown.
Designed as a symbol for muscle enthusiasts and those with a fetish for muscular bodies or building muscle mass. Six green horizontal bars in two gradients fill the field — green for growth, the bars an homage to the gay pride flag. The charge is a triskele of three flexed, muscular arms representing the fetish's three core components: muscle development and growth, height growth, and cock or breast growth.
Created by Carrie, presented at Florida Fetish Weekend in October 2007. The black field ties to the leather community; the white bar represents the true, pure inner spirit within each pony. The blue line across the centre nods to ponies striving to excel at their craft and to the competitive side of pony play, as well as to denim for cowboys and cowgirls who love their ponies. The green circle represents grass and the natural environment of a horse, and the overlaying shoes represent the pony in that environment and the unification of all ponies.
The creator and debut date of this flag couldn't be traced, but its lines are believed to be a tribute to the leather pride flag, with each colour representing a different colour of dog fur. If you have information on its source, get in touch.
Created by "Nipper" and submitted to the Yahoo! Group "PupOut!", where it was voted the community's favourite by over 300 members. It carries the same black, blue, and white lines as the leather flag, with the canton's red heart replaced by a paw print.
Another commonly seen puppy pride flag, sharing the leather flag's black, blue, and white lines but replacing the canton heart with a canine head resembling a Great Dane. Its origin is unknown — get in touch if you know more.
Yet another commonly found puppy pride flag, again sharing the leather flag's black, blue, and white lines, this time with a large red bone charged in place of the canton heart. Its origin is unknown — get in touch if you know more. (Much like real canines, reaching a consensus on a single flag for this community has proven difficult.)
Designed by pups Pongo and Thor to unify leather pups and rubber pups under a single flag. The traditional leather fetish flag fills the left field and the rubber pride flag the right, joined by a white silhouette of a pup at the center — symbolizing pride, strength, and fidelity, always ready to protect its master. Its acceptance across the wider community couldn't be confirmed.
Designed by Peter Tolos and Scott Moats in 1994 to help like-minded rubberists identify one another. Black stands for the lust for the look and feel of shiny black rubber, red for a blood-deep passion for rubber and rubberists, and yellow for the drive toward intense rubber play and fantasy. The chevron represents the kink enjoyed by many within the community. View large version.
Created for the 10th anniversary of the FENIX Global Skin Movement to unite skins behind a single symbol, designed by SkinDavid and Shadowskin in Antwerp, Belgium in 2006. The laurel wreath represents the unity and brotherhood of the skin movement.
The gay skinhead community often contends with the stereotype of racist and neo-Nazi skinheads, though gay skinhead culture is generally not racially biased. This flag's specific origin is unclear; it modifies the gay pride rainbow with a skinhead outline charged on the field and a boot in the fly.
Six sneakers arranged across the field represent the six continents. Its seven colours — red, yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, and black — represent flags of nations worldwide, celebrating both the diversity of sneaker types and of those with sneaker fetishism. The thick black soles represent the hardships the community has faced in gaining acceptance, and every sneaker points inward to signify the journey shared together. Designed under the pseudonym OsirisSniff.
Designed in January 2009 by an unknown creator in Washington, DC. Though intended as a first draft, it has already appeared in US pride parades. It's a clear derivation of the Leather Pride flag, moving the heart to the flag's charge and adding red arrows to represent the role of the switch.
Also known as the urolagnia or "piss pride" flag, first seen at New York City Pride in 2013. The field splits vertically into white and black, representing the two sides of urolagnia fetishism — the "pisser" and the "pissee," top and bottom. The lower field carries a yellow band with a wave pattern of eleven peaks and valleys and a large yellow droplet feeding the pool below; the number eleven represents the eleven regions of the world, unifying urolagnists worldwide under one symbol.
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