In 2013, Morgan Carpenter chose the colors yellow and purple for the intersex flag. Morgan moved away from the rainbow symbolism and selected these colors because neither is associated with the social constructs of the gender binary.

The circle, perfect and unbroken, represents the wholeness of intersex people. It is a reminder that intersex people are perfect the way they are or choose to be.

The Bisexual Pride flag was created by Michael Page and debuted on December 8, 1998 on BiCafe . com (now defunct.) Page wanted to create a prominent symbol for the bisexual community just as the gay pride (rainbow) flag was prominent to the gay community after its creation by Gilbert Baker in 1978. He chose the colors for the flag for the popular “Bi-Angles” symbol of triangles and combined them into a flag that used 40% pink (to represent homosexuality), 20% purple (to represent a combination of homosexuality and heterosexuality), and 40% blue (to represent heterosexuality).

The non-binary pride flag was created by 17 year old Kye Rowan in February of 2014 when a call was put out by several members of their community for a flag that could represent non-binary folk who did not feel that the genderqueer flag represented them. The flag consists of four stripes colored (from top to bottom) yellow, white, purple and black.

Yellow represents those whose gender exists outside of and without reference to the binary as yellow is often used to distinguish something as its own.

White represents those who have many or all genders as white is the photological presence of color and/or light.

The purple stripe represents those who feel their gender is between or a mix of female and male as purple is the mix of traditional boy and girl colors. The purple also could be seen as representing the fluidity and uniqueness of nonbinary people.

The final black stripe represents those who feel they are without gender, as black is the photological absence of color and/or light.

The pansexual flag has three horizontal colored stripes: The magenta represents people who are female-identifying regardless of sex, the yellow is for attraction to people who identify as genderqueer, nonbinary, agender, androgynous, intersex, or otherwise does not fit into the gender binary of only male or female identification. Finally, the cyan is a representation of attraction to people who identify as male regardless of sex. The pansexual pride flag came about to make the distinction between pansexuality and bisexuality... It was created in 2010 and was originally posted on the internet by a user named “Jasper V,” and has since gained significant traction and become one of the key signature pride flags out there.

The abrosexual flag was created by Mod Chad of pride flags-for-us after an anonymous Tumblr user requested it. It is also thought that the flag and the term originated on DeviantArt in 2013 and later gained recognition on Tumblr. The abrosexual flag is made up of five colors. There’s dark green, light green, white, baby pink, and rich pink from top to bottom. It isn’t known why these colors were specifically chosen for the abrosexual flag. One Tumblr user on the page abrosexual learning shared their interpretation of what the flag’s colors mean. They said, “Green represents a queer attraction, the fade to white is for the in-between stage of attraction shifting, and pink is for the actual shift itself. Also, the colors match that of watermelon, which could be a fun pun on the /fluidity/ of our orientation.”

Gilbert Baker, a friend of San Fancisco’s openly gay City Supervisor Harvey Milk, designs the first rainbow flag. The eight-color flag first flew over the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade in June of 1978. From top to bottom, the colors represent sex, life, healing, sunlight, nature, magic and art, serenity, and spirit.