Pansexual flag

Pink, yellow and blue: attraction regardless of gender, with a stripe for people outside the binary.

What the colours mean

Pink Attraction to women.
Yellow Attraction to non-binary people and people of other genders.
Blue Attraction to men.

Where it comes from

The pansexual flag appeared online around 2010 and spread quickly through social media. Its designer is not reliably documented, so we will not name one. It was created partly to distinguish pansexuality from bisexuality, which already had its own flag.

What makes it different

The yellow stripe is the key. It explicitly includes non-binary people and people of any gender, which is the heart of how many pansexual people describe their attraction: gender is not what decides it.

How it is used

It is flown at Pride and on Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness Day, and its three colours are often used on their own. Some people who are both pansexual and panromantic use it for both.

Questions people ask

What do the pansexual flag colours mean?

Pink for attraction to women, blue for attraction to men, and yellow for attraction to non-binary people and people of other genders.

Who created the pansexual flag?

It appeared online around 2010, and its designer is not reliably documented.

Is pansexual the same as bisexual?

They overlap and many people use both words. Pansexual usually puts the emphasis on attraction regardless of gender.

In the glossary

Pansexual Panromantic Bisexual

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.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.