Bisexual flag

Pink, purple and blue, with the purple where the other two overlap.

What the colours mean

Pink Attraction to the same gender.
Purple Attraction to more than one gender, where the two overlap.
Blue Attraction to a different gender.

Where it comes from

The bisexual flag was designed by Michael Page and unveiled in December 1998. Page wanted to give bisexual people a symbol of their own, comparable to the rainbow flag, at a time when bisexuality was often treated as invisible or as a phase.

Why the stripes are uneven

The pink and blue stripes each take up two fifths of the flag and the purple one fifth. Page described the purple as blending into both, the way bisexual people move through both gay and straight worlds.

How it is used

The flag is flown at Pride and on Bisexual Visibility Day, on 23 September. Its three colours are also widely used on their own, in clothing, lighting and profile badges, as a quiet way of saying bi.

Questions people ask

What do the colours of the bisexual flag mean?

Pink for attraction to the same gender, blue for attraction to a different gender, and purple, where they overlap, for attraction to more than one.

Who designed the bisexual flag?

Michael Page, in 1998.

What is the difference between the bisexual and pansexual flags?

The bisexual flag is pink, purple and blue. The pansexual flag is pink, yellow and blue, with yellow standing for people outside the gender binary.

In the glossary

Bisexual Biromantic Pansexual

Other pride flags

Transgender flagLight blue, pink and white, in a pattern that reads the same whichever way up you fly it.Rainbow pride flagThe first pride flag, designed in 1978, and still the one most people mean by the pride flag.Progress Pride flagThe rainbow flag with a chevron that brings people of colour and trans people to the front.Pansexual flagPink, yellow and blue: attraction regardless of gender, with a stripe for people outside the binary.Asexual flagBlack, grey, white and purple, chosen by the asexual community itself in 2010.Demisexual flagThe asexual flag's colours, rearranged around a black chevron.Aromantic flagFive stripes from green to black, with green chosen as the opposite of romance's reds and pinks.Genderfluid flagFive stripes for a gender that moves: femininity, the absence of gender, the mix, all genders and masculinity.Agender flagSeven symmetrical stripes, with black and white for the absence of gender and green for non-binary genders.Genderqueer flagLavender, white and green: androgyny, agender identities and genders outside the binary.Intersex flagA yellow field and a purple circle, in colours chosen to be free of gender associations.Demiboy flagGreys, light blue and white: a partial connection to being a boy or a man.Demigirl flagGreys, pink and white: a partial connection to being a girl or a woman.