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Queer Symmetry Flag

The Queer Symmetry Flag combines queer pride flags in an attempt to represent all queer identities in an elegant new design.

In contrast to other flags, this one builds onto the Transgender Flag which represents all queer gender identities, and so:

The pattern is such that no matter which way you fly it, it is always correct, signifying us finding correctness in our lives.

~Monica Helms [53]

A rainbow, representing all queer sexual identities and romantic identities, refracts through the Transgender Flag, symbolizing the interconnections of gender, sexuality, and romanticality, how gender identity can shape sexual and romantic identities.

Brown and black stripes, representing black, indigenous, (and) people of color (BIPOC), extend from the inner part of the refracted rainbow, wrapping around the Intersex Flag, which “symbolizes the right to be who and how we want to be” in the fight “for bodily autonomy and genital integrity” of all intersex people (Morgan Carpenter).[23][24][25]

In some versions of The Queer Symmetry Flag, the Transgender Flag peeks through the area containing the Intersex Flag, symbolizing the interconnections between intersex identity and gender identity, how intersex people can identify as trans-feminine, trans-masculine, non-binary, or something else entirely.

The Queer Symmetry Flag exists in three main variants

  • classic style, triangular design
  • alternative style, a unique new hexagonal design
  • heart style, a unique new heart-shaped alternative design

There are a few versions of each style, including a simplified version in which the Intersex Flag fills the area containing it.

  • Smorty [she/her]
    10•2 months ago

    This feels less like an LBGTQIA+ flag, and for of a ti+ flag (as in trans-inter and some others too ig)

    But yes, symmetry is nice

  • Janet
    9•2 months ago

    uh, idk, you could just as well use the Intersex Inclusive Progress Pride Flag and make the rainbow symmetric… to me it doesnt look like a “queer symmetry flag” but maybe a neat intersex inclusive trans flag

    but that’s just like my opinion. also: have an 🧅

    edit: :shrug:

  • Hello HotelEnglish
    7•2 months ago

    its a neat mod of the Daniel Quasar intersex inclusive gay pride flag.

    • What Im going to call Reading Order got changed. Trans and Gay pride switched places.
    • The gay pride in the triangle part asthetically looks better as its a gradiant from the pole to the triangle tip
    • asexual ring has dark outline now 😎.
    • No compramises on the Trans flag (yes, the original bugs me a lot)
    • the 2 POC stripes get “just after Gay pride” in the reading order and placed directly next to gay pride stripes. (I find it less aquard than it clashing against the pastels of the trans flag)

    The Reading Order for both original and redesign is the flag equivlant of saying “we are Foo, we also made up of Bar people, also Baz people, also Qux, also …”. Because the way we designed it, Reading Order effects the message being sent.

    Like someone else here said, treat it as an LGBIA+ inclusive queer and trans flag. Its how we got the trans inclusive gay pride flag but in reverse. Pairing the flags together, (mabe alternating between them on lamp posts) may be confusing but asthetically pleasing and sends a pretty message.

    rant: Im a little scared to make this "the default (normie) flag"

    because I have an ideological bias tward liking this flag. both flags are a “Im representing myself first, shoutout to my homies and allys on the other side of the queer coin”, that is fine on its own. However, either flag should not be the “default, genaral queer reperesentation, those deep and surface level alike will recognise instantly as its primary symbol” flag. It needs to be a new thing altogether. It gives too mush priority to one side, the posability of people being prissy and distroying the meaning of these flags by inspiring division in such a loving space makes me queezy. We have accedentially done this already to some digree. I have seen online and even at times felt the sentimate “LGB, forgot the T”. (from web search, unreviewed) before.

    If we only allow ourselves only these style of flags, there is a trolly problem of, “we could do nothing and keep the flag as a ‘gay pride (sexuality) but all of queer identity if you squint’ flag or pull the lever and make it a ‘trans pride (gender identity) but all of queer identity if you squint’ flag.”