White, a color that consists of all colors mixed together, stands for multi-gendered people. Yellow signifies something on its own or people who identify outside of the cisgender binary of male or female.
The colors of the nonbinary flag are yellow, white, purple, and black. The colors each symbolize a different subgroup of people who identify as nonbinary. In 2014, Kye Rowan created the nonbinary pride flag. The white stands for those in transition or those who don’t feel identified with any gender. Pink and blue represent girls and boys respectively. The flag was first created in 1999 by Monica Helms, a transgender woman. The trans community needs representation and resources to be visible without fear. This is why the trans flag is so important. Violence against the queer community affects trans people of color the most. There are more than 1.4 million trans adults living in the U.S. She is a powerful advocate for black people within the entertainment industry and this flag spiked in popularity after she elevated its visibility. Lena Waithe’s choice to wear the Philadelphia Pride Flag as a cape at the 2018 Met Gala is the perfect example of this type of inclusion.
The addition of black and brown stripes to the traditional pride flag symbolized people of color who are often not represented in the queer community.
The flag launched in 2017 as part of the “More Color More Pride” Campaign in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Pride Flag came about in response to the demand for more inclusivity across the LGBTQ+ community. The turquoise color was also taken off the flag to keep an even number of colors. Hot pink wasn’t included in the fabrication of these flags, because the fabric was hard to find as the demand for the flag started to rise. This flag includes the colors red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, and violet on it. One of the most well known and used of the LGBT flags throughout history has been the 1979, six-color flag.
The final black stripe represents those who feel they are without gender, as black is the photological absence of color and/or light.” The nonbinary flag and the genderqueer flag are both options for nonbinary people to use to symbolize themselves and take different approaches to how to symbolize nonbinary genders.The history of the original pride flag should be in textbooks and taught in school. The purple could also be seen as representing the fluidity and uniqueness of nonbinary people. The purple stripe represents those who feel their gender is between or a mix of female and male, as purple is the mix of traditional boy and girl colors. White represents those who have many or all genders, as white is the photological presence of color and/or light. Yellow represents those whose gender exists outside of and without reference to the binary, as yellow is often used to distinguish something as its own. This flag was intended to go alongside Marilyn Roxie’s genderqueer flag rather than replace it. Kye Rowan designed the nonbinary flag in 2014. TriPride has not discovered the original creator. The raised fist was added to the six-striped flag and includes various shades of brown and a white stripe to represent the various colors of the “human rainbow.” The flag’s use has mostly been in the digital sphere, but it was flown at the 2019 San Francisco Pride.
Historically, the raised fist has served as an emblem of solidarity and support as well as an expression of unity, strength, defiance, and resistance. Johnson, the black drag queen thought to have thrown the first brick at the Stonewall Inn Riots). The flag represents queer people of color (QPOC) and how the black community and the queer community are often woven together, both currently and in the earliest days of the Queer Liberation Movement (see Marsha P. Though it may have been used before, 2020 saw the display of the QPOC Pride Flag rise in popularity in the broader queer community as a sign of solidarity with Black Lives Matter demonstrations seen across the country and world.