37 Flags. Every Identity.
The Flags We Proudly Fly
At Club 200, these flags hang on our walls and ride on our float every year at Pride. Each one represents a community we celebrate, honour, and welcome home.
Club 200 — Winnipeg's proudly gay, Indigenous-owned community since 1988.
Umbrella Flags
6 flags
Gilbert Baker Pride Flag
The original Pride Flag was created in 1978 after activist Harvey Milk asked artist Gilbert Baker to design a symbol of gay pride. Each color represents a different part of the LGBTQ+ community: hot pink represents sex, red symbolizes life, orange stands for healing, yellow equals sunlight, green stands for nature, turquoise symbolizes magic and art, indigo represents serenity, while violet symbolizes the spirit of LGBTQ+ people.
Traditional Pride Flag
After the assassination of Harvey Milk, the rainbow flag was in high demand. Due to manufacturing issues, the hot pink stripe was removed. The turquoise stripe was removed from the flag as a design choice from Baker. The six color pride flag has represented the community for over 40 years and is still one of the most common LGBTQ+ flags.
Philadelphia Pride Flag
The Philadelphia Pride Flag was unveiled at the citys pride event in 2017. The Philadelphia City Council commissioned the creation of this flag as they wanted to incorporate queer communities of color that have often been overlooked in the mainstream LGBTQ+ movement. The addition of the black and brown stripes symbolize communities of color and their contribution to the movement.
Progress Pride Flag
The Progress Pride Flag evolved from the Philadelphia Pride Flag and was created by Daniel Quaser. Quasar added a white, pink, and light blue stripe to represent the Trans community. While the black and brown stripes still represented communities of color, the black stripe is also a nod the thousands of individuals that the community lost during the HIV/AIDS crisis in 1980s and 1990s.
Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag
The Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag adds the intersex community to the Progress Pride Flag. With this update coming in 2021, this serves as the most up-to-date LGBTQ+ flag. The flag was created by Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK.
Queer Pride Flag
Created in 2015, the flag represents all aspects of queerness as the label queer has become more celebrated. The pink and blue shades represent same-gender attraction while the orange and green stripes stand for non-binary and gender non-conforming individuals. The black and white stripes symbolize asexual, aromantic, and the agender community.
Sexual Orientation Flags
16 flags
Lesbian Pride Flag
While there have been many iterations of the Lesbian Pride Flag, this has been in use since 2018. Since then, it has been widely accepted. The different shades of red, pink, and orange represent the different types of femininity in the lesbian community.
Trans-Inclusive Gay Mens Pride Flag
This is the second version of the Gay Mens Pride Flag. The original only had green, blue and white. This version has different shades of green and blue to include non-cisgender gay men.
Bisexual Pride Flag
The Bisexual Flag was created in 1998 by Michael Page to bring awareness to the bisexual community. The pink represents attraction to the same gender while the blue represents the attraction to the opposite gender. The purple stripe in the middle represents attraction to two genders.
Pansexual Pride Flag
The Pansexual Pride Flag was created around 2010 in order to bring awareness to the community. The pink stripe represents attraction to women while the blue stripe represents attraction to men. The yellow stripe is for everyone else in-between and beyond the gender binary.
Asexual Pride Flag
The Asexual Pride Flag was created in 2010 following a contest by the Asexual Visibility and Education Network. Each stripe has a different meaning: black represents asexuality, gray means gray-asexuality & demisexuality, white stands for non-asexual partners and allies, and the purple represents community.
Demisexual Pride Flag
It represents people who only form sexual attraction for people once they have established a deep emotional connection with them. Each color has a different meaning: black represents asexuality, gray stands for demisexuality, white means sexuality, while purple represents community.
Polyamory Pride Flag
In 2021, over 30,000 members of the polyamorous community voted for this new design by Red Howell, representing elements around different core values including white for possibility, magenta for desire and love, blue for openness and honesty, gold for energy and perseverance and purple representing the united non-monogamous community.
Polysexual Pride Flag
The Polysexual Pride Flag was created online in 2012 for people that are attracted to multiple, yet not all, genders. The blue stripe represents attraction to men, pink stands for the attraction to women, while green is for attraction to those outside of the binary.
Aromantic Pride Flag
The Aromantic Pride Flag represents people who experience little or no romantic attraction. The dark green represents aromanticism, the light green stands for the aromantic spectrum, white symbolizes platonic and aesthetic attraction, gray represents gray-aromantic and demiromantic people, and black represents the sexuality spectrum.
Omnisexual Pride Flag
The Omnisexual Pride Flag represents people who are attracted to all genders, but unlike pansexuality, gender still plays a role in their attraction. The light pink and light blue represent the gender spectrum, the pink represents attraction to femininity, the blue represents attraction to masculinity, and the dark purple represents attraction to all genders.
Abrosexual Pride Flag
The Abrosexual Pride Flag represents people whose sexual orientation is fluid and changes over time. Someone who is abrosexual may fluctuate between different sexualities. The green shades represent queer attraction, white stands for the in-between, and the pink shades represent the shifting nature of attraction.
Sapphic Pride Flag
The Sapphic Pride Flag is an umbrella flag for all women who love women — lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, and queer women. Named after the ancient Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, the flag features shades of pink with violets in the center, a historic symbol of sapphic love.
Graysexual Pride Flag
The Graysexual (or Gray-Ace) Pride Flag represents people who fall on the spectrum between asexuality and sexuality. They may experience sexual attraction rarely, only under specific circumstances, or with low intensity. The purple represents the asexual community, gray stands for gray-sexuality, and white represents sexuality.
Androsexual Pride Flag
The Androsexual Pride Flag represents people who are attracted to men, masculinity, or masculine-presenting people, regardless of the gender identity of the person experiencing the attraction. This term is especially useful for non-binary individuals describing their attraction.
Gynosexual Pride Flag
The Gynosexual Pride Flag represents people who are attracted to women, femininity, or feminine-presenting people, regardless of the gender identity of the person experiencing the attraction. Like androsexual, this term is particularly useful for non-binary and gender non-conforming individuals.
Skoliosexual Pride Flag
The Skoliosexual (also called Ceterosexual) Pride Flag represents people who are primarily attracted to non-binary, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming individuals. The yellow-green and teal shades represent attraction outside of the gender binary.
Gender Identity & Expression Flags
9 flags
Transgender Pride Flag
The Transgender Pride Flag debuted at Phoenix Pride in 2000 and was created by US Navy Veteran Monica Helms. The blue stripes represent the ‘traditional boy’ colors while the pink stripes represent the ‘traditional girl’ colors. The white stripe represents those who are intersex, transitioning, or have an undefined gender.
Non-Binary Pride Flag
The Nonbinary Pride Flag was created in 2014 to represent those individuals who do not identify with either binary gender. The yellow stripe represents a gender outside of the binary. The white stripe stands for those who have multiple or all genders. The purple stripe symbolizes those who fall between the male/female binary. The black stripe represents those with no gender.
Intersex Pride Flag
The Intersex Pride Flag was developed in 2013 by the co-chair of Intersex Human Rights Australia, Morgan Carpenter. Intersex people are those born with a variety of differences in their sex traits and reproductive anatomy. The creator chose yellow and purple as those are seen as gender neutral colors.
Genderfluid Pride Flag
The Genderfluid Pride Flag was developed in 2013 by JJ Poole. Each color represents a different aspect: pink stands for femininity, blue stands for masculinity, white represents the lack of gender, black symbolizes all genders, and purple represents a combination of masculinity and femininity.
Genderqueer Pride Flag
The Genderqueer Pride Flag was created by Marilyn Roxie in 2011 to represent those people that reject the static categories of gender. The lavender stripe represents androgyny and other queer identities while the white stripe stands for agender people. The green stripe symbolizes those who fall outside of the binary.
Agender Pride Flag
The Agender Pride Flag was created in 2014 to represent those who have an unidentifiable gender, are gender neutral, or have no gender. The black and white stripes represent the absence of gender while the gray stripes stand for semi-genderless people. The green stripe represents non-binary people.
Bigender Flag
The flag represents those who have two genders. In some cases, this is both male and female, but it can also include non-binary identities. These two gender identities can occur at the same time or they can vary over time.
Demigender Pride Flag
The flag represents those people who have a partial feeling, but not a full connection, to a particular gender identity or to the concept of gender.
Pangender Pride Flag
The Pangender Pride Flag represents people who identify with all genders or experience a wide range of gender identities. The bright yellow represents genders unrelated to the binary, the light yellow stands for genders between male and female, the peach/pink represents the transition between genders, and the white symbolizes the blending of all genders.
Intersectionality & Community Pride Flags
6 flags
Pride of Africa Flag
The Pride of Africa debuted at Johannesburg Pride in 2019. It was created by Pride of Africa Foundation. This is the first pan-African LGBTQ+ flag. It is inspired by the flags of all the countries in Africa.
Queer People of Color Pride Flag
The Queer People of Color Flag appeared at San Francisco Pride in 2019, but rose to prominence in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter Protests. The flag signifies how the struggle for racial equality and queer equality often intersect. It also honors the number of QPOC that have spent their lives fighting for both queer and racial equity.
Two-Spirit Pride Flag
The Two-Spirit Pride Flag represents Indigenous Americans that identify as two-spirit individuals meaning they fall outside of the M-F binary. The feathers represent masculine and feminine identities. The circle signifies the unification of both identities into a separate gender while the rainbow represents modern queer identities.
Bear Pride Flag
The Bear Pride Flag was designed by Craig Byrnes in 1995 to represent the bear subculture within the LGBTQ+ community. Bears are typically larger, hairier men who embrace masculinity and body positivity. The stripes represent the fur colors of bears around the world, and the bear paw print is a widely recognized symbol of the community.
Leather Pride Flag
The Leather Pride Flag was designed by Tony DeBlase in 1989 and has become a symbol of the leather subculture and the broader BDSM and fetish communities within the LGBTQ+ world. The alternating blue, black, and white stripes with a red heart represent the community's values of trust, passion, and mutual respect.
Ally Pride Flag
The Ally Pride Flag represents heterosexual and cisgender people who actively support and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. The black and white stripes represent heterosexual and cisgender identities, while the rainbow 'A' stands for allyship — a reminder that support from outside the community is vital to the fight for equality.
"Every flag tells a story. Every story matters. That's why they all fly here." — Club 200
Flag descriptions and images courtesy of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and community sources. Used with appreciation.
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