Race and inclusion
POC Pride Pride Flag
What does this flag represent?
A rainbow Pride variant that adds black and brown stripes to recognise and affirm LGBTQ+ people of colour.
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Design Symbolism
The Philadelphia-style black and brown stripes make racial inclusion visible inside Pride symbolism rather than leaving LGBTQ+ people of colour implicit.
Layout: Black and brown stripes added above the six-stripe rainbow field.
- Black and brown
- Black and brown LGBTQ+ people and anti-racist inclusion.
- Rainbow field
- The wider LGBTQ+ Pride tradition.
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Story and Usage Notes
The Philadelphia People of Color Inclusive Pride Flag, also known through the More Color More Pride campaign, added black and brown stripes to the rainbow flag to make racial inclusion explicit within Pride symbolism. It is retained here as an intersectional inclusion flag rather than one of the four canonical general Pride flag milestones.
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Origin and Provenance
- Introduced
- 2017
- Designer / attribution
- Philadelphia Office of LGBT Affairs / Tierney
- Source confidence
- high
Created to foreground LGBTQ+ people of colour and challenge racism within LGBTQ+ communities.
The campaign was led by Philadelphia Office of LGBT Affairs under AJ Hikes and developed with Tierney.
