In the coming weeks, you will see the LGBTQIAP+ profile go through a bunch of changes in terms of themes, aesthetics, and activities. Among these changes, you'll find us sporting a bunch of pride flags and colors most commonly associated with LGBTQIAP+ communities around the world on our updated aesthetics.

Can we get a "new theme, who dis?"

But there is a huge range of pride flags for almost every sexuality, gender identity, gender expression, and romantic attraction. During this Get-Together, we're going to be sharing some of these and telling you a little bit more about them.

We will be showcasing five flags every time so if you see yours, please represent!

What does your flag stand for? Find out!

This flag is the new most commonly used flag. The dark orange helps represent gender non-conformity, the light orange represents community. White represents the unique relationships to womanhood. Pink represents serenity and peace. The dark rose represents femininity. This is the five-stripe version of the original seven-stripe version introduced in 2018.

The seven-striped flag had the colors orange, which represented independence, and dusty pink, which represented love and sex.

The rainbow flag is also used as a universal flag for the LGBTQ+ community. Its colors from top to bottom stand for life, healing, sunlight, nature, harmony, and spirit. Some cultural variations of the rainbow flag also include pink for sexuality, and older variations included turquoise to symbolize art.

The colors of the nonbinary flag are yellow, white, purple, and black. Like the original rainbow pride flag, the colors extend horizontally across the banner. The colors each symbolize a different subgroup of people who identify as nonbinary. Yellow signifies something on its own or people who identify outside of the cisgender binary of male or female. White, a color that consists of all colors mixed together, stands for multigender people. Purple, similar to the lavender color in the genderqueer flag, represents people who identify as a blending of male and female genders. Black, or the absence of color, signifies those who are agender or who feel they do not have a gender. Taken together, these four colors aim to include and specifically depict the experience of nonbinary people. Nonbinary people have embraced Kye Rowan's design. You will see the flag being carried at Pride parades around the world, usually alongside the Genderqueer flag.

There are three stripes on the genderqueer flag, as seen above. The top, lavender stripe, represents the blending of the female (pink) and male (blue) genders and symbolizes the people in this community who feel both male and female. The second, white stripe represents those who fall outside gender binary altogether. The forest green is the inverted color of lavender and therefore symbolizes those who feel neither male nor female.

The pansexual pride flag makes use of pink and blue to represent a pansexual's attraction to both those who identify as female and male respectively (both cisgender and transgender). The yellow represents attraction to other genders on the spectrum, such as those who are non-binary, genderfluid, androgynous, agender, bigender, pangender, intergender, intersex individuals, and those who are transitioning genders, and so on.

These won't be the only flags we will be sharing on the Get-Together! Stay tuned for more in the coming days. Additionally, be on the look-out for our new Community Guide where we will share the different pride flags amongst other exciting things such as the different identities, sexualities, general educational guides, and more!

Love and peace,