Gender expression
Butch Pride Flag
What does this flag represent?
A flag used by some butch and non-femme lesbians to represent butch identity and visibility.
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Source status
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Attribution
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Design Symbolism
The blue-to-purple range offers a deliberately less femme-coded lesbian symbol, with cool and violet tones used for butch and non-femme visibility.
Layout: 7 horizontal colour bands, read from top to bottom in the public asset.
- Blue tones
- Butch, masculine-of-centre or non-femme lesbian expression.
- White
- Community space and connection across butch experiences.
- Purple tones
- Queer identity, lesbian community and gender nonconformity.
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Story and Usage Notes
Butch identity has a long history in lesbian and queer communities. This blue-to-purple butch flag is one of several butch flag designs, and is commonly described as a response to lesbian flag designs that were perceived as centring femme presentation.
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Origin and Provenance
- Introduced
- 2016
- Designer / attribution
- Dorian Rutherford
- Source confidence
- medium
Created to represent butch and non-femme lesbians within lesbian pride symbolism.
A second butch flag design was published in 2017; this entry covers the blue-to-purple design visible in the supplied reference image.
