34 LGBTQ+ flags with who designed them, what each stripe stands for, and the hex codes. Tap a colour code to copy it, or customise any flag in the pride flag maker.
Gilbert Baker, 1978; six-stripe version from 1979
The best-known LGBTQ+ symbol. Baker assigned each stripe a meaning; the six-stripe layout became standard after pink and turquoise fabric proved hard to source.
Gilbert Baker, San Francisco, 1978
The first hand-dyed rainbow flag, flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade on 25 June 1978.
City of Philadelphia "More Color More Pride" campaign, 2017
Adds black and brown stripes to the rainbow to recognise LGBTQ+ people of colour.
Daniel Quasar, 2018
The rainbow with a hoist chevron in trans flag colours plus black and brown. The arrow points to the fly to suggest forward movement.
Valentino Vecchietti, 2021
Adds the intersex flag’s yellow triangle and purple circle to the Progress design.
Michael Page, 1998
Stripes in a 2:1:2 ratio; Page described the purple as the overlap of pink and blue.
Online, circa 2010
Three equal stripes representing attraction regardless of gender.
AVEN community vote, 2010
Chosen by members of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network in 2010.
Emily Gwen, 2018
The widely adopted “sunset” lesbian flag, shared on Tumblr in 2018 (originally with seven stripes).
Emily Gwen, 2018
The original seven-stripe version of the sunset lesbian flag.
Tumblr user “gayflagblog”, 2019
A green-to-blue flag for men attracted to men, including trans and non-binary men.
AVEN forums, circa 2010
Shares the asexual palette; the black hoist triangle marks it as part of the ace spectrum.
Online, circa 2012
For people who experience sexual attraction rarely or weakly.
Tumblr user “fuckyeahpolysexual”, 2012
Attraction to many, but not necessarily all, genders.
Online, 2015
Attraction to all genders, where gender still plays a role.
Tumblr, 2015
For people whose sexual orientation changes over time.
Online, circa 2014
The demisexual layout recoloured with aromantic green.
Cameron Whimsy, 2014
Green was chosen as the opposite of red, the colour of romance.
Tumblr, 2018
A distinct flag for people who are both aromantic and asexual.
Monica Helms, 1999
Helms designed it to read correctly whichever way up it is flown, “signifying us finding correctness in our lives”.
Kye Rowan, 2014
Created to sit alongside, not replace, the genderqueer flag.
Marilyn Roxie, 2011
Lavender mixes the traditional pink and blue; green is its inverse.
JJ Poole, 2012
Five stripes for the range of genders a genderfluid person may move between.
Salem X, 2014
Symmetrical seven stripes around a single green stripe.
Morgan Carpenter, Intersex Human Rights Australia, 2013
Deliberately uses colours not associated with the gender binary.
Online, 2014 revision
For people who experience two genders.
Online, circa 2015
For people who partly identify as a woman or girl.
Online, circa 2015
For people who partly identify as a man or boy.
Online, 2015
Soft pastel stripes for people who experience many or all genders.
Online
Pink and blue with purple as their blend, for a gender that combines both.
Online, 2014
For people who experience a neutral or null gender.
Tony DeBlase, 1989
DeBlase left the colours open to interpretation. Nine stripes with a red heart in the canton.
Online, 2000s
Black and white stripes with an inverted rainbow chevron (drawn here as a hoist chevron).
There is no official list. New flags are proposed online every year, and communities adopt some and not others. This page covers 34 widely used flags for sexual orientations, romantic orientations, gender identities and communities.
The six-stripe rainbow (Gilbert Baker, 1978–79) represents the LGBTQ+ community as a whole. Daniel Quasar’s 2018 Progress Pride flag adds a chevron in trans flag colours plus black and brown, to foreground trans people and LGBTQ+ people of colour.
Most pride flags were published online as images rather than with formal specifications, so slightly different hex codes circulate. We use the values most commonly given by each flag’s designer or community. Treat them as a faithful reference, not a legal standard.
Yes. Each flag has PNG and SVG downloads, free for any use. “Customise” opens it in the pride flag maker so you can add a symbol, change the proportions or combine flags.