Can educators and inclusion teams reuse these Pride flag assets?

The guide provides downloadable SVG assets with source notes, provenance, attribution confidence and citation guidance so educators and inclusion teams can choose flags carefully and cite the underlying records.

What do Pride flag colours mean?

Pride flag colours do not have one universal meaning. A rainbow stripe can name broad values such as life, healing or spirit, while a specific flag such as the trans, bisexual, intersex or Progress Pride flag uses colours and shapes for that community, designer history and political context.

Where can I find a Pride flags meanings list?

Use the meaning chart and search/filter controls on this page to find source-backed Pride flag meanings, then open the individual flag page for colour symbolism, provenance, attribution confidence and downloadable SVG assets.

UK Pride Flag Guide

Pride Flags Meaning and Identity Guide

Pride flags make identity, solidarity and community history visible. This UK guide explains what every Pride flag means — its colours, symbolism, designer and provenance — with downloadable SVG flags and source-backed notes for educators and inclusion teams.

Pride flag meanings

What do Pride flags mean?

Pride flags use colour, shape and layout to make identity, solidarity, protest and community history visible. The best flag meaning pages separate symbolism from provenance: what the colours represent, who designed or popularised the flag, how confident the attribution is, and which sources support the record.

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How to cite and use these flags

Open each flag page before reusing an asset. Check the source status, attribution confidence, colour symbolism and origin notes, then cite the linked source record rather than treating a downloaded SVG as a standalone authority.

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Pride flag Six-Colour Rainbow Pride Flag The widely recognised six-stripe Rainbow Pride flag standardised from 1979 after hot pink and turquoise were removed. Pride flag Progress Pride Flag Daniel Quasar's 2018 Progress Pride Flag, adding a chevron for trans people, LGBTQ+ people of colour and forward movement. Pride flag Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag Valentino Vecchietti's 2021 intersex-inclusive evolution of the Progress Pride Flag. Sexual orientation Bisexual Bisexual describes attraction to more than one gender, often including attraction to people of the same and different genders. Sexual orientation Asexual A person who experiences little or no sexual attraction, or who identifies with the asexual spectrum. Sexual orientation Lesbian A flag used to represent lesbians: women and woman-aligned people who are attracted to women. Gender identity Transgender A person whose gender identity does not align with their assigned sex at birth. Sex characteristics Intersex A person born with physical sex characteristics that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies. Gender identity Nonbinary A person who does not identify exclusively as male or female.

Pride flags and meaning

Pride flag meaning chart

Use this as a quick Pride flags meanings list, then open each flag page for the full source notes, attribution confidence, SVG download and colour palette.

Six-Colour Rainbow Pride Flag

The six-colour rainbow keeps Baker's broad values while reflecting the production-driven 1979 simplification that became globally recognised.

Red: Life. Orange: Healing. Yellow: Sunlight. Green: Nature.

Progress Pride Flag

The chevron moves trans colours, black and brown inclusion stripes into the hoist, visually saying that inclusion and repair still need forward motion.

Rainbow field: The wider LGBTQ+ community and the older rainbow Pride tradition. Black and brown chevrons: Black and brown LGBTQ+ people, anti-racism, and in some readings people living with or lost to HIV/AIDS. Pink, white and blue chevrons: Transgender people and gender-diverse inclusion.

Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag

Valentino Vecchietti's variant places Morgan Carpenter's intersex circle inside the Progress Pride chevron, making intersex inclusion explicit rather than implied.

Rainbow field: The wider LGBTQ+ community. Black, brown, pink, white and blue chevrons: Racial inclusion, HIV/AIDS memory and trans inclusion. Yellow triangle with purple circle: Intersex wholeness, autonomy and non-derivative symbolism.

Bisexual

The broad pink and blue fields were designed to blend through a narrow purple centre, making bisexual overlap and visibility the core visual idea.

Pink: Same-gender attraction in Michael Page's original explanation. Purple: Overlap, blending and bisexual attraction. Blue: Different-gender attraction in the original explanation.

Transgender

Monica Helms designed a symmetrical blue, pink and white flag so it remains correct whichever way it is flown, reflecting there is no wrong way to be trans.

Light blue: Traditional boy colour and trans masculine experience. Pink: Traditional girl colour and trans feminine experience. White: People who are transitioning, intersex, nonbinary or otherwise outside binary gender.

Nonbinary

Kye Rowan's design was made to sit alongside, not replace, the genderqueer flag, with each stripe naming a different relationship to the gender binary.

Yellow: People outside the gender binary. White: People with many or multiple genders. Purple: Blend or mixture of male and female gender. Black: Agender people.

Lesbian

The orange-to-pink redesign is widely read as lesbian community, independence, relationships to womanhood, peace, love and femininity, with a broader intent than earlier lipstick-lesbian designs.

Orange tones: Gender nonconformity, independence and community. White: Unique relationships to womanhood. Pink tones: Serenity, love, sex and femininity.

Asexual

Also known as: Ace flag

The asexual flag formalised AVEN community colours into a four-stripe design spanning asexuality, grey-asexuality, allosexual connection and community.

Black: Asexuality. Grey: Grey-asexual and demisexual experiences. White: Allosexuality, partners or allies depending on source context. Purple: Asexual community.

Pansexual

Magenta, yellow and cyan are commonly read as attraction to women, nonbinary people and men, making the middle yellow band the visual marker for attraction beyond the binary.

Magenta: Attraction to women or feminine-aligned people. Yellow: Attraction to nonbinary people and genders beyond the binary. Cyan: Attraction to men or masculine-aligned people.