Genderqueer flag

Lavender, white and green: androgyny, agender identities and genders outside the binary.

What the colours mean

Lavender Androgyny and queerness, as a mix of blue and pink.
White Agender identities.
Dark green Identities outside the binary, as the inverse of lavender.

Where it comes from

The genderqueer flag was designed by Marilyn Roxie in 2011. The colours were chosen with care: lavender as a blend of the blue and pink traditionally used for boys and girls, and green as lavender's inverse, for genders defined outside that pairing.

What genderqueer means

Genderqueer is an older word, in use since the 1990s, for people whose gender does not fit the categories of man or woman. Many people use it alongside or instead of non-binary.

Genderqueer and non-binary

The two words overlap a great deal and many people use both. Some prefer genderqueer because it keeps the political edge of the word queer; others find non-binary clearer. Neither is more correct, and the only reliable guide is the word a person uses for themselves.

Questions people ask

What do the genderqueer flag colours mean?

Lavender for androgyny and queerness, white for agender identities, and dark green for identities outside the binary.

Who designed the genderqueer flag?

Marilyn Roxie, in 2011.

In the glossary

Genderqueer Non-binary Androgyne

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.Bisexual flagPink, purple and blue, with the purple where the other two overlap.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.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.