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Progress Pride flag

The rainbow flag with a chevron that brings people of colour and trans people to the front.

What the colours mean

Black LGBTQ+ people of colour, and those living with and lost to HIV and AIDS.
Brown LGBTQ+ people of colour.
Light blue, pink and white The colours of the transgender flag.
The rainbow LGBTQ+ people as a whole, as in the original flag.

Where it comes from

The Progress Pride flag was designed in 2018 by Daniel Quasar, a non-binary designer. It builds on the six-stripe rainbow flag and on a 2017 Philadelphia version that had added black and brown stripes.

Why a chevron

Quasar placed the added colours in an arrow shape pointing right, along the hoist edge. The arrow suggests forward movement, and its position at the edge suggests that progress is still needed.

The intersex-inclusive version

In 2021 Valentino Vecchietti updated the design to include intersex people, adding a yellow triangle with a purple circle, the elements of the intersex flag, at the point of the chevron.

Seeing it on a door or a profile

A Progress Pride flag in a shop window, a clinic or a bio is usually a deliberate choice of the more inclusive design. It is a reasonable signal that the person or place has thought about trans people and people of colour, not a guarantee, and it is fair to judge them by what they do next.

Questions people ask

What does the Progress Pride flag mean?

It keeps the rainbow for LGBTQ+ people as a whole and adds black, brown, light blue, pink and white to put people of colour and trans people at the front.

Who designed the Progress Pride flag?

Daniel Quasar, in 2018.

What is the yellow triangle on some Progress Pride flags?

The intersex-inclusive version, updated by Valentino Vecchietti in 2021, adds a yellow triangle with a purple circle, the elements of the intersex flag.

In the glossary

Transgender Intersex Allyship

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.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.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.