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The [[LGBT community]] has adopted certain [[symbols]] for [[Identity (social science)|self-identification]] to demonstrate unity, [[gay pride|pride]], shared values, and allegiance to one another. '''LGBT symbols''' communicate ideas, concepts, and identity both within their communities and to mainstream culture. The two most-recognized international LGBT symbols are the [[pink triangle]] and the [[rainbow flag (LGBT movement)|rainbow flag]]. The rainbow flag, previously used as a symbol of unity among all people, was adopted to be a more organic and natural replacement without any negativity attached to it.

==Flags==
{{Main|Pride flag}}

===Rainbow===
{{Main|Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)}}

[[Gilbert Baker (artist)|Gilbert Baker]] designed the [[Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)|rainbow]] [[Gay pride|Pride]] flag for the 1978 [[San Francisco Pride|San Francisco Gay Freedom Day]] celebration. The flag does not depict an actual rainbow. Rather, the colors of the rainbow are displayed as horizontal stripes, with red at the top and violet at the bottom. It represents the diversity of gays and lesbians around the world. In the original eight-color version, pink stood for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/students/ally/lgbtsymbols/ |title=Carleton College: Gender and Sexuality Center: Symbols of Pride of the LGBTQ Community |publisher=Apps.carleton.edu |date=2005-04-26 |accessdate=2012-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210045929/http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/students/ally/lgbtsymbols/ |archive-date=2012-02-10 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</ref> A copy of the original 20-by-30 foot, eight-color flag was remade by Baker in 2000, and was installed in the [[Castro District, San Francisco|Castro district]] in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rochman|first1=Sue|title=Rainbow flap|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CGMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16#v=onepage&q=original%20pride%20flag%20flies%20in%20the%20castro |website=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|page=16|date=June 20, 2000|accessdate=21 August 2018}}</ref> Many variations on the rainbow flag exist, including incorporating other LGBT symbols like the triangle or lambda.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/orgs/avproject/symbols.htm |title=Symbols of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements |author=Riffenburg, Charles Edward IV |date=2004 |website=Queer Resources Directory |publisher= |access-date=July 25, 2019 }}</ref>

{{gallery|mode=nolines|whitebg=y|height=60
|Gay flag 8.svg|Original eight-stripe version designed by Gilbert Baker (1978)
|Gay flag 7.svg|Seven-stripe version with hot pink color removed due to a lack of fabric (1978–1979)
|Gay Pride Flag.svg|Six-stripes version with turquoise color removed and indigo color changed to royal blue (1979-present)
}}

===Asexuality===
{{Main|Asexuality}}
[[File:Asexual flag.svg|thumb|right|150px|alt=Black, gray, white, purple stripes|Asexual pride, adopted in 2010]]

The asexual pride flag consists of four horizontal stripes: black, gray, white, and purple from top to bottom.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bilić |first1=Bojan |last2=Kajinić |first2=Sanja |title=Intersectionality and LGBT Activist Politics: Multiple Others in Croatia and Serbia | publisher=Springer | date=2016 |pages=95–96}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Decker |first1=Julie |title=The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality | publisher=Skyhorse}}</ref> The flag was created by AVEN user standup in August 2010, as part of a community effort to create and choose a flag.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Asexuality Flag |url=http://www.asexualityarchive.com/the-asexuality-flag/ |publisher=Asexuality Archive}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2019}} The black stripe represents asexuality; the gray stripe represents gray-aces and demisexuals; the white stripe represents allies; and the purple stripe represents community.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Storied Glossary of Iconic LGBT Flags and Symbols |url=https://mashable.com/2014/06/13/lgbt-pride-symbols/#qHywYTWpigqr |publisher=Mashable}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Sobel |first=Ariel |url=https://www.advocate.com/pride/2018/6/13/complete-guide-queer-pride-flags#media-gallery-media-8 |title=The Complete Guide to Queer Pride Flags |publisher=Advocate.com |date=2018-06-13 |accessdate=2018-06-28}}</ref>

===Bear culture===
{{Main|Bear flag (gay culture)}}
[[File:Bear Brotherhood flag.svg|thumb|left|150px|alt=Bear Brotherhood flag|[[Bear flag (gay culture)|International Bear Brotherhood]], adopted in 1995]]

''Bear'' is an affectionate [[gay slang]] term for those in the bear communities, a subculture in the [[gay community]] and an emerging subset of the LGBT community with its own events, codes, and culture-specific identity. Bears tend to have hairy bodies and [[facial hair]]; some are [[overweight|heavy-set]]; some project an image of working-class [[masculinity]] in their [[Personal grooming|grooming]] and appearance, though none of these are requirements or unique indicators. The bear concept can function as an identity, an affiliation, and an ideal to live up to. There is ongoing debate in bear communities about what constitutes a bear. Some state that self-identifying as a bear is the only requirement, while others argue that bears must have certain physical characteristics, such as a hairy chest and face, a large body, or a certain mode of dress and behavior.

Bears are almost always [[gay]] or [[bisexuality|bisexual]] men; [[transgender]] men (regardless of their sexuality) and those who shun labels for [[gender]] and [[Sexual identity|sexuality]] are increasingly included within bear communities. The bear community has spread all over the world, with bear clubs in many countries. Bear clubs often serve as social and sexual networks for older, hairier, sometimes heavier gay and bisexual men, and members often contribute to their local gay communities through fundraising and other functions. Bear events are common in heavily gay communities.

The [[Bear flag (gay culture)|International Bear Brotherhood Flag]] was designed in 1995 by Craig Byrnes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bearmfg.com/history/history.html |title=Flag History |publisher=Bearmfg.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211094128/http://www.bearmfg.com/history/history.html |archive-date=2012-02-11 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</ref>

===Bisexuality===
{{Main|Bisexual pride flag}}
[[File:Bi flag.svg|thumb|right|150px|Bisexual pride, adopted in 1998|alt=Magenta, lavender, and blue stripes]]

First unveiled on 5 December 1998,<ref name="biflag">{{cite web|url=http://www.biflag.com/Activism.asp |title=History, Bi Activism, Free Graphics |publisher=BiFlag.com |date=1998-12-05 |accessdate=2012-01-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204070907/http://www.biflag.com/Activism.asp | archive-date=2012-02-04 | deadurl=yes}}</ref> the [[bisexual pride flag]] was designed by Michael Page to represent and increase visibility of bisexuals in the LGBT community and society as a whole. This rectangular flag consists of a broad magenta stripe at the top, a broad stripe in blue at the bottom, and a narrower deep lavender band occupying the central fifth.

Page describes the meaning of the pink, lavender, and blue (ratio 2:1:2) flag as this: "The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (lesbian). The blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (straight) and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes (bi)."
He also describes the flag's meaning in deeper terms, stating "The key to understanding the symbolism of the Bisexual pride flag is to know that the purple pixels of color blend unnoticeably into both the pink and blue, just as in the 'real world,' where bi people blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.<ref name="mashableglossary">{{cite web|last1=Petronzio|first1=Matt|title=A Storied Glossary of Iconic LGBT Flags and Symbols|url=https://mashable.com/2014/06/13/lgbt-pride-symbols/#co._PVJ5mgqY|website=[[Mashable]]|date=June 13, 2014|accessdate=17 July 2014}}</ref>

The blue and pink overlapping triangle symbol represents [[bisexuality]] and bi pride. The origin of the symbol, sometimes facetiously referred to as the "biangles", is largely unknown, however the colors of bisexuality originate from this symbol: pink for attraction to women, blue for attraction to men, and lavender for attraction to both, as well as a reference to queerness.<ref name="mashableglossary" />

===Intersex===
{{Main|Intersex flag}}
[[File:Intersex flag.svg|thumb|left|150px|alt=A yellow background with a purple circle in the middle, representing intersex people.|[[Intersex flag|Intersex pride]], adopted in 2013]]

[[Intersex]] people are those who do not exhibit all the biological characteristics of male or female, or exhibit a combination of characteristics, at birth. Between 0.05% and 1.7% of the population is estimated to have intersex traits.<ref name="United Nations Free & Equal factsheet on Intersex">https://www.unfe.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/UNFE-Intersex.pdf</ref><ref name="ISNA frequency">{{cite web|url=http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency |title=How common is intersex? | Intersex Society of North America |publisher=Isna.org |date= |accessdate=2009-08-21}}</ref>

The intersex flag was created by [[Morgan Carpenter]] of [[Intersex Human Rights Australia]] in July 2013 to create a flag "that is not derivative, but is yet firmly grounded in meaning". The organization describes the circle as "unbroken and unornamented, symbolising wholeness and completeness, and our potentialities. We are still fighting for bodily autonomy and genital integrity, and this symbolises the right to be who and how we want to be".<ref>[http://ihra.org.au/22773/an-intersex-flag/ An intersex flag], [[Intersex Human Rights Australia]], 5 July 2013</ref><ref>[https://www.amnesty.org.au/features/comments/32251/ Are you male, female or intersex?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923072805/http://www.amnesty.org.au/features/comments/32251 |date=2016-09-23 }}, Amnesty International Australia, 11 July 2013</ref><ref>[http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/intersex-advocates-address-findings-of-senate-committee-into-involuntary-sterilisation-12237.html Intersex advocates address findings of Senate Committee into involuntary sterilisation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115130147/http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/intersex-advocates-address-findings-of-senate-committee-into-involuntary-sterilisation-12237.html |date=2016-01-15 }}, Gay News Network, 28 October 2013</ref>

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===Lesbianism===

No flag design for a lesbian pride flag has been widely adopted.<ref name=Bendix>{{cite web|last1=Bendix|first1=Trish|title=Why don't lesbians have a pride flag of our own?|url=https://www.afterellen.com/people/452039-dont-lesbians-pride-flag|website=[[AfterEllen]]|date=September 8, 2015|accessdate=8 June 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909150736/https://www.afterellen.com/people/452039-dont-lesbians-pride-flag|archivedate=September 9, 2015}}</ref>

The [[labrys]] [[lesbian]] flag was created in 1999 by graphic designer Sean Campbell, and published in June 2000 in the Palm Springs edition of the ''[[Gay and Lesbian Times]]'' Pride issue.<ref name=Advocate>{{cite web|last=Sobel|first=Ariel|url=https://www.advocate.com/pride/2018/6/13/complete-guide-queer-pride-flags#media-gallery-media-8|title=The Complete Guide to Queer Pride Flags|work=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|date=June 13, 2018|accessdate=28 June 2018}}</ref><ref name=Bendix /><ref name="Ref29">{{Cite web|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/lgbt-pride-flags-meaning|title=A Complete Guide To All The LGBTQ+ Flags & What They Mean|date=19 June 2019|accessdate=6 July 2019|publisher=[[Refinery29]]|author=Kasandra Brabaw}}</ref>The design involves a labrys superimposed on the inverted [[Black triangle (badge)|black triangle]], set against a [[Violet (color)#Social movement|violet]] [[hue]] background. The labrys was used as an ancient religious symbol,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Keller|first=Mara|date=1988|title=Eleusinian Mysteries|url=http://www.ciis.edu/Documents/Keller%20Eleusinian%20Mysteries%201988%20part2_1.pdf|journal=Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion|issue=Vol 4 No 1|page=42|doi=|pmid=|access-date=2016-06-21}}</ref> and for other various purposes.<ref>Caterina Mavriyannaki, "La double hache dans le monde héllenique à l'âge du bronze," ''Revue Archéologique'', New series (1983:195-228). In French.</ref>{{Specify|date=July 2019}} In the 1970s it was adopted as a symbol of empowerment by the [[Lesbian feminism|lesbian feminist]] community.<ref name="Cottingham1996">{{cite book|last=Cottingham|first=Laura|title=Lesbians Are So Chic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TWgbAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=26 June 2014|year=1996|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=9780304337217}}</ref><ref name="Murphy2013">{{cite book|last=Murphy|first=Timothy|title=Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FeWMAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA44|accessdate=26 June 2014|date=2013-10-18|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135942342|page=44ff.}}</ref><ref name="Pea">{{cite web|last1=Pea|first1=Georgie|title=LABRYS Tool of Lesbian Feminism|url=http://findinglesbians.blogspot.com/2013/08/labrys-tool-of-lesbian-feminism.html|website=Finding Lesbians|date=9 August 2013|accessdate=4 August 2018}}</ref> Women considered asocial by the [[Third Reich]] because they did not conform to the [[Nazism|Nazi]] ideal of a woman, which included [[homosexuality|homosexual females]], were condemned to [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camps]] and wore an inverted [[Black triangle (badge)|black triangle]] badge to identify them.<ref name="remember1" /><ref name=USHMM1>{{cite web|title=Lesbians and the Third Reich|url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005478|publisher=[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]]|accessdate=16 January 2015}}</ref> Some lesbians reclaimed this symbol as gay men reclaimed the pink triangle (many lesbians also reclaimed the pink triangle although lesbians were not included in [[Paragraph 175]] of the [[Strafgesetzbuch|German criminal code]]).<ref name="remember1">{{Cite news|last1=Elman|first1=R. Amy|title=Triangles and Tribulations: The Politics of Nazi Symbols|url=http://remember.org/educate/elman|website=Remember.org|access-date=2016-12-10}} (Originally published in the [[Journal of Homosexuality]]: 30 (3): 1–11, 1996, ISSN 0091-8369)</ref>

The [[lipstick lesbian]] flag consists of six shades of red and pink colors and a white bar in the center, the original design also including a [[:File:Lipstick_lesbian_Pride_Flag.svg|red kiss]].<ref name="QueerEvents">{{cite web|title=Queer Community Flags|url=https://www.queerevents.ca/queer-corner/blog/queer-community-flags|website=Queer Events|date=September 14, 2018|accessdate=4 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=Mathers>{{cite web|last1=Mathers|first1=Charlie|title=18 Pride flags you might not have seen before|url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/pride-flag-community/|website=[[Gay Star News]]|date=1 January 2018|accessdate=4 June 2019}}</ref> This flag was originally introduced in the [[Blog|weblog]] ''This Lesbian Life'' in 2010.<ref name=Mathers /><ref name="QueerEvents"/> The lipstick lesbian flag represents "homosexual women who have a more feminine gender expression".<ref name=Blaxk>{{cite web|last1=Blaxk|first1=Natasha A.|last2=Stern|first2=Alana|title=9 Queer Pride Flags That You Probably Didn't Know About|url=https://www.theodysseyonline.com/9-queer-pride-flags-that-you-probably-didnt-know-about|website=[[Odyssey (publication)|Odyssey]]|date=June 22, 2016|accessdate=23 January 2019}}</ref> The flag and its kissless variant have not been widely adopted.<ref name="QueerEvents"/>

{{gallery|mode=nolines|whitebg=y|height=60
|Labrys_Lesbian_Flag.svg|[[Labrys]] lesbian flag created in 1999
|Lipstick_Lesbian_flag_without_lips.svg|[[Lipstick lesbian]] flag based on 2010 design
|Lesbian Pride Flag 2019.svg|Lesbian pride flag created in 2018
}}

===Non-binary===
[[File:Nonbinary_flag.svg|thumb|right|150px|alt=Yellow, white, light purple, and black stripes.|Nonbinary pride, adopted in 2014]]

The [[non-binary]] flag was created in 2014 by activist Kye Rowan.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Glass |first1=Jess |title=Pride flags: All of the flags you might see at Pride and what they mean |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/26/all-of-the-flags-you-might-see-at-pride-and-what-they-mean/ |website=PinkNewa |publisher=PinkNews |accessdate=19 April 2019}}</ref> Each stripe color represents different types of non-binary identities: Yellow for people who identify outside of the gender binary, white for nonbinary people with multiple genders, purple for those with a mixture of both male and female genders, and black for [[agender]] individuals.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Anonymous |title=Everything you never understood about being nonbinary |url=https://www.gaygull.com/everything-never-understood-nonbinary/ |website=Gaygull |publisher=Gaygull |accessdate=19 April 2019}}</ref>

Under the non-binary umbrella are all those who identify off the [[gender binary]]. There are many different identities within this category including [[androgyny]], [[genderqueer]]ness (which includes agender, ceterosexual, gender fluid, intergender), [[third gender]], and [[transgender]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Gender Alphabet|url=http://www.safehomesma.org/gender_alphabet.pdf|website=Safe Homes|publisher=Open Sky Community Services|date=2010|accessdate=17 May 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Kandola|first1=Aaron|title=What does nonbinary mean?|url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321529.php|website=[[Medical News Today]]|publisher=Healthline Media UK|date=18 April 2018|accessdate=17 May 2019}}</ref>

===Pansexuality===
[[File:Pansexuality flag.svg|thumb|left|150px|alt=Pink, yellow, and light blue stripes.|Pansexual pride, adopted in 2010]]

The [[pansexual pride flag]] has been found on various Internet sites since mid-2010.<ref name="wings">{{cite web | url=http://www.freedomrequireswings.com/2012/11/do-you-have-flag.html | title=Do You Have a Flag? | date=9 November 2012 | accessdate=17 July 2014}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=July 2019}} It has three horizontal bars that are pink, yellow and blue.<ref name="Shenandoah">{{cite web | url=http://www.su.edu/event/pansexual-pride-day/ | title=Pansexual Pride Day | work=[[Shenandoah University]] | accessdate=17 July 2014}}</ref> The pink band symbolizes women; the blue, men; and the yellow, those of a [[non-binary gender]], such as [[agender]], [[bigender]] or [[genderfluid]].<ref name="wings" /><ref name="clare">{{cite web | url=http://clarebayley.com/2013/06/a-field-guide-to-pride-flags/ | title=A field guide to Pride flags | date=27 June 2013 | accessdate=17 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="mashableglossary" /><ref name="ucsc">{{cite web | url=http://queer.ucsc.edu/resources/sexualities.html | title=Cantú Queer Center - Sexuality Resources | accessdate=17 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="overtherainbow">{{cite web | url=http://www.overtherainbowshop.com/symbols.htm | title=Gay & Lesbian Pride Symbols - Common Pride Symbols and Their Meanings | accessdate=17 July 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160928022535/http://www.overtherainbowshop.com/symbols.htm | archive-date=2016-09-28 | dead-url=yes | df= }}</ref>

A "P" with the tail converted to an arrow with a cross is also sometimes used. It predates the flag and is still in use today. The cross on the "P"'s tail refers to the cross on the Venus or female symbol (♀), and the arrow refers to the arrow on the Mars or male symbol (♂).<ref name="Pansexual Files">{{cite web | url=https://avia-viridis.neocities.org/sof/pan.html | title=Sexual Orientation Files: Pansexual | accessdate=27 June 2018}}</ref> While it does not technically have a name, it is sometimes colloquially referred to as "the pansexual symbol".

===Transgender===
[[File:Transgender Pride flag.svg|thumb|right|150px|[[Transgender flags|Transgender pride]], adopted in 1999]]

A transgender symbol is the [[Transgender flags#Transgender Pride Flag|Transgender Pride Flag]] designed by transgender woman [[Monica Helms]] in 1999,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/art/2014/11/12/smithsonians-queer-collection | title=The Smithsonian's Queer Collection | publisher=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]] | date=12 November 2014 | accessdate=5 June 2015 | author=Fairyington, Stephanie}}</ref> which was first shown at a pride parade in Phoenix, Arizona, US in 2000.<ref name=transcastro>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/transgender-flag_n_2166742.html "Transgender Flag Flies In San Francisco's Castro District After Outrage From Activists" by Aaron Sankin], HuffingtonPost, November 20, 2012</ref> It was flown from a large public flagpole in San Francisco's [[Castro District]] beginning November 19, 2012 in commemoration of the [[Transgender Day of Remembrance]].<ref name=transcastro /> The flag represents the transgender community and consists of five horizontal stripes: two light blue, two pink, with a white stripe in the center. Helms described the meaning of the flag as follows:
:"The stripes at the top and bottom are light blue, the traditional color for baby boys. The stripes next to them are pink, the traditional color for baby girls.<ref name=transcastro /> The white stripe is for people that are nonbinary, feel that they don't have a gender."<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/we-have-a-navy-veteran-to-thank-for-the-transgender-pride-flag_us_5978c060e4b0e201d57a711f | title = We Have A Navy Veteran To Thank For The Transgender Pride Flag | first1 = Emma | last1 = Gray | first2 = Alanna | last2 = Vagianos | work = Huffington Post | date = July 27, 2017 | accessdate = 2017-08-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bransonlb/the-veteran-who-created-the-trans-pride-flag-reacts-to | title = The Veteran Who Created The Trans Pride Flag Reacts To Trump's Trans Military Ban | first = Branson | last = LB | work = Buzzfeed | date = July 26, 2017 | accessdate = 2018-08-31}}</ref> The pattern is such that no matter which way you fly it, it is always correct, signifying us finding correctness in our lives.<ref name=transcastro />

[[Philadelphia]] became the first county government in the U.S. to raise the transgender pride flag in 2015. It was raised at [[Philadelphia City Hall|City Hall]] in honor of Philadelphia's 14th Annual [[Mazzoni Center|Trans Health Conference,]] and remained next to the US and City of Philadelphia flags for the entirety of the conference. Then-[[Michael Nutter|Mayor Michael Nutter]] gave a speech in honor of the trans community's acceptance in Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/06/04/philadelphia-raises-transgender-pride-flag-first-time|title=Philadelphia Raises the Transgender Pride Flag for the First Time|last=|first=|date=|access-date=|work=The Advocate}}</ref>

==Other symbols==
In addition to major symbols of the LGBT community, symbols have been used to represent members' unity, pride, shared values, and allegiance to one another.

===Ace ring===
[[File:Asexual ring.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Ace ring]]

A black ring (also known as an ace ring) worn on the middle finger of one's right hand is a way [[Asexuality|asexual]] people signify their asexuality. The ring is deliberately worn in a similar manner as one would a [[wedding ring]] to symbolize marriage. Use of the symbol began in 2005.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Chasin | first1=CJ DeLuzio | title=Reconsidering Asexuality and Its Radical Potential | url=http://chasin.ca/cj/Chasin_Reconsidering.Asexuality_FS.Vol39.2_2013.pdf | journal=[[Feminist Studies]] | year=2013 | volume=39 | issue=2| pages=405–426 | issn=0046-3663}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Besanvalle |first1=James |title=Here’s a handy way to tell if someone you meet is asexual |url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/handy-way-tell-someone-asexual-ace-ring/#gs.gbPp1y3w |website=[[Gay Star News]] |date=31 July 2018 |accessdate=18 February 2019}}</ref>

===Blue feather===
In the [[Society for Creative Anachronism]], LGBT members often wear a blue feather to indicate an affiliation with Clan Blue Feather, a group of SCA members promoting the study of LGBT culture and people in the Middle Ages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bluefeather.org |title=Clan Blue Feather |publisher=Bluefeather.org |date= |accessdate=2018-06-28}}</ref> Because of this affiliation, blue feathers have also been used at some [[Renaissance fair|Renaissance Faires]] and [[Pagan]] events.

===Calamus plant===
[[File:AcorusCalamus2.jpg|thumb|right|105px|Acorus Calamus]]

According to some interpretations, American poet [[Walt Whitman]] used the [[Sweet flag|calamus]] plant to represent homoerotic love.<ref>{{cite book|last=Herrero-Brasas|first= Juan A.|title=Walt Whitman's Mystical Ethics of Comradeship: Homosexuality and the Marginality of Friendship at the Crossroads of Modernity|year=2010|publisher=SUNY|isbn=978-1-4384-3011-9|page=46|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ca4FuDfH-cMC&pg=PA46}}</ref>

===Double-gender===
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[[File:Westerkerk - Gay symbols 2.jpg|thumb|left|130px|Lesbian and gay gender sex symbols]]

Interlocked [[gender symbol]]s. Each gender symbol derives from the [[Astronomical symbols|astronomical symbol]] for the planet [[Venus]] and [[Mars]]. In modern science, the singular symbol for Venus is used to represent the [[Female|female sex]], and singular symbol for Mars is used to represent the [[Male|male sex]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Melissa|title=The Origin of the Male and Female Symbols|url=http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/05/origin-male-female-symbols/#_edn1|website=Today I Found Out|date=May 8, 2015|accessdate=22 August 2018}}</ref> Two interlocking female symbols <big>(⚢)</big> represent a lesbian or the lesbian community, and two interlocking male symbols <big>(⚣)</big> a gay male or the gay male community.<ref name="zimmerman_symbols">{{cite book|editor1-last=Zimmerman|editor1-first=Bonnie|title=Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures|date=2000|publisher=[[Garland Publishing]]|volume=1 (Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia)|page=748|edition=1st|chapter=Symbols (by Christy Stevens)|isbn=0-8153-1920-7}}</ref><ref name="lambdasymbols" />

The symbols first appeared in the 1970s.<ref name="lambdasymbols">{{cite web|title=Symbols of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements|url=http://www.lambda.org/symbols.htm |website=lambda.org|publisher=LAMBDA GLBT Community Services|date=December 26, 2004|accessdate=22 August 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051230095156/http://www.lambda.org/symbols.htm|archivedate=December 30, 2005}}</ref>

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===Freedom rings===
Freedom rings, designed by [[David Spada]], are six aluminum rings, each in one of the colors of the rainbow flag. They were released in 1991.<ref name="nytimesrings">{{cite news | last = Van Gelder| first = Lindsy| title = Thing; Freedom Rings| newspaper = New York Times| date = 1992-06-21| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/21/style/thing-freedom-rings.html| accessdate = 2010-07-21}}</ref>
Symbolizing happiness and diversity, these rings are worn by themselves or as part of necklaces, bracelets, and key chains.<ref name="nytimesrings"/>

They are sometimes referred to as "Fruit Loops".<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang">{{cite book|last=Green|first=Jonathon|title=Cassell's Dictionary of Slang|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|date=2006|isbn=0-304-36636-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my_ut0maeV4C&pg=PA549#PPA549,M1|accessdate=2007-11-15}}</ref>

===Green carnation===
[[File:Green Carnation.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Green carnation]]

In [[:Category:19th century in England|19th-century England]], [[green]] indicated homosexual affiliations. [[Victorian era|Victorian]] gay men would often pin a green [[Dianthus caryophyllus|carnation]] on their lapel as popularized by openly gay author [[Oscar Wilde]], who often wore one on his lapel.<ref>Stetz, Margaret D. (Winter 2000). [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/biography/v023/23.1stetz.html ''Oscar Wilde at the Movies: British Sexual Politics and The Green Carnation (1960)'']; Biography – Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2000, pp. 90–107. Retrieved 14 June 2010.</ref><ref>''Curiosities of Literature'' by John Sutherland (2011, {{isbn|1-61608-074-4}}), pp. 73-76.</ref>

===Handkerchief code===
{{Main|Handkerchief code}}

In the early 20th century gay men in New York City's Caucasian professional world would often wear red neckties to signal their identity. This practice was later expanded into a system called flagging, or the [[Handkerchief code|hanky code]].<ref name="Chauncey1994">{{cite book|author=George Chauncey|title=Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NNHGuVdPELYC&pg=PA52|year=1994|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=978-0-465-02621-0|page=52}}</ref>

===Lambda===
[[File:Lambda-letter-lowercase-symbol-Garamond.svg|thumb|left|75px|[[Lambda]] – Greek alphabet letter]]

In 1970, graphic designer [[Tom Doerr]] selected the lower-case Greek letter [[Lambda#Lower-case letter λ|lambda]] to be the symbol of the New York chapter of the [[Gay Activists Alliance]].<ref name=Rapp_alliance>{{cite web|last=Rapp|first=Linda|title=Gay Activists Alliance|url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/gay_activists_alliance_S.pdf|website=[[glbtq.com]]|year=2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=1969, The Year of Gay Liberation|url=http://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/1969/ref/1696848.html|website=[[The New York Public Library]]|date=June 2009|accessdate=17 November 2018}}</ref> The alliance's literature states that Doerr chose the symbol specifically for its denotative meaning in the context of chemistry and [[Lambda transition|physics]]: "a complete exchange of energy–that moment or span of time witness to absolute activity".<ref name=Rapp_alliance />

The lambda became associated with [[Gay Liberation]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Goodwin|first1=Joseph P.|title=More Man Than You'll Ever Be: Gay Folklore and Acculturation in Middle America|date=1989|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|page=26|chapter=It Takes One to Know One|isbn=978-0253338938}}</ref><ref name=Rapp_symbols>{{cite web|last1=Rapp|first1=Linda|title=Symbols|url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/symbols_A.pdf|website=[[glbtq.com]]|date=2003}}</ref> and in December 1974, it was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the [[International Gay Rights Congress]] in Edinburgh, Scotland.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Haggerty|editor1-first=George E.|title=Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume II)|date=2000|publisher=[[Garland Publishing]]|location=London|page=529|edition=1|quote=[[WorldCat|OCLC]] Number: 750790369|isbn=0-8153-1880-4}}</ref> The gay rights organization [[Lambda Legal]] and the American [[Lambda Literary Foundation]] derive their names from this symbol.

===Purple hand===
{{See also|Lavender Mafia}}

On October 31, 1969, sixty members of the [[Gay Liberation Front]] (GLF), the Committee for Homosexual Freedom (CHF), and the Gay Guerilla Theatre group staged a protest outside the offices of the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'' in response to a series of news articles disparaging [[LGBT]] people in San Francisco's [[gay bar]]s and clubs.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Teal |first1=Donn |title=The Gay Militants: How Gay Liberation Began in America, 1969-1971 |date=1971 |pages=52-58 |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]] |location=New York |isbn=0312112793 }}</ref><ref name=Gould_book>{{cite magazine |last=Gould|first=Robert E.|title=What We Don't Know About Homosexuality|publisher=[[New York Times Magazine]]|date= 24 February 1974|accessdate=January 1, 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wfHq53yNCYC&pg=PA371&num=100&as_brr=0#PPA344,M1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Laurence |first1=Leo E. |title=Gays Penetrate Examiner |url=https://voices.revealdigital.com/?a=d&d=BFBJFGJ19691031.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------------1 |work=[[Berkeley Tribe]] |date=October 31–November 6, 1969 |volume=1 |issue=17 |page=4 |accessdate=7 August 2019}}</ref><ref name=Alwood_1996>{{cite book|last=Alwood |first=Edward|title=Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|isbn=0-231-08436-6|year=1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wfHq53yNCYC&pg=PA94&num=100&as_brr=0#PPA93,M1|accessdate=January 1, 2008}}</ref>

The peaceful protest against the "[[homophobic]] editorial policies" of the ''Examiner'' turned tumultuous and were later called "Friday of the Purple Hand" and "Bloody Friday of the Purple Hand".<ref name=Alwood_1996 /><ref name=BellVV>{{cite news |last=Bell|first=Arthur |authorlink=Arthur Bell (journalist)|title=Has The Gay Movement Gone Establishment?|work=[[The Village Voice]]|date=28 March 1974|accessdate=January 1, 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wfHq53yNCYC&pg=PA371&num=100&as_brr=0#PPA344,M1}}</ref><ref name=Van_Buskirk>{{cite news|last=Van Buskirk |first=Jim |title=Gay Media Comes of Age |url=http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/san_francisco,2.html |work=[[Bay Area Reporter]] |year=2004 |archivedate=July 5, 2015 |accessdate=2008-01-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705201921/http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/san_francisco%2C2.html |df= }}</ref><ref name=Friday>{{cite news|title=Friday of the Purple Hand |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X-s3MQmEQiMC&pg=PA51 |work=San Francisco Free Press|date=November 15–30, 1969 |accessdate=January 1, 2008}} (courtesy: the [[GLBT Historical Society|Gay Lesbian Historical Society]].</ref><ref name=DelMartin>{{cite journal |last1=Martin |first1=Del |title=The Police Beat: Crime in the Streets |url=http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/sfbagals/Vector/1969_Vector_Vol05_No12_Dec.pdf |journal=Vector (San Francisco) |volume=5 |issue=12 |page=9 |date=December 1969 |accessdate=1 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=GayPower>{{cite web |title="Gay Power" Politics |url=http://ebar.com/openforum/opforum.php?sec=guest_op&id=41 |website=GLBTQ, Inc. |date=30 March 2006|accessdate=January 1, 2008}}</ref> Examiner employees "dumped a bag of printers' ink from the third story window of the newspaper building onto the crowd".<ref name=Alwood_1996 /><ref name=Van_Buskirk /> Some reports state that it was a barrel of ink poured from the roof of the building.<ref name=Montanarelli>{{cite book|last1=Montanarelli|first1=Lisa|last2=Harrison|first2==Ann|title=Strange But True San Francisco: Tales of the City by the Bay|year=2005|publisher=Globe Pequot|isbn=0-7627-3681-X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5FqTS3ZCbjgC&num=100&as_brr=0|accessdate=January 1, 2008}}</ref> The protesters "used the ink to scrawl 'Gay Power' and other slogans on the building walls" and stamp purple hand prints "throughout downtown San Francisco" resulting in "one of the most visible demonstrations of gay power".<ref name=Alwood_1996 /><ref name=Van_Buskirk /><ref name=GayPower/> According to Larry LittleJohn, then president of SIR, "At that point, the tactical squad arrived – not to get the employees who dumped the ink, but to arrest the demonstrators. Somebody could have been hurt if that ink had gotten into their eyes, but the police were knocking people to the ground."<ref name=Alwood_1996 /> The accounts of [[police brutality]] include women being thrown to the ground and protesters' teeth being knocked out.<ref name=Alwood_1996 /><ref name=NewspaperSeries>{{cite news|title=Newspaper Series Surprises Activists|work=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|date=24 April 1974|accessdate=January 1, 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wfHq53yNCYC&pg=PA371&num=100&as_brr=0#PPA344,M1}}</ref> Inspired by [[Black Hand (extortion)|Black Hand]] extortion methods of [[Camorra]] [[gangster]]s and [[the Mafia]],<ref name=Nash>{{cite book|last1=Nash|first1=Jay Robert|title=World Encyclopedia of Organized Crime|date=1993|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|isbn=0-306-80535-9}}</ref> some gay and lesbian activists attempted to institute "purple hand" as a warning to stop anti-gay attacks, but with little success.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}} In Turkey, the LGBT rights organization MorEl Eskişehir LGBTT Oluşumu (Purple Hand Eskişehir LGBT Formation), also bears the name of this symbol.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://moreleskisehir.blogspot.com |title=MorEl Eskişehir LGBTT Oluşumu |website=Moreleskisehir.blogspot.com |date= |accessdate=January 23, 2012}}</ref>

===Transgender symbol===
A symbol of the female (♀), male (♂) and [[Genderqueer]] (⚨) symbols combined around a circle (⚧) is sometimes used to represent transgender people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gendertalk.com/tg-symbol/|title=Transgender Symbol|last=|first=|date=|website=Gender talk|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://transgendersociety.yolasite.com/history-of-transgender-symbolism.php|title=history of transgender symbolism|last=|first=|date=|website=transgender society|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>

===Unicorns===
[[File:Portland Pride, 2017 - 20.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Unicorn in [[Portland Pride]], 2017]]

Unicorns have been part of pride flags and symbols of LGBT culture in the last century, becoming prominent during the gay rights protests of the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/15/return-of-the-unicorn-the-magical-beast-of-our-times|title=Why the unicorn has become the emblem for our times {{!}} Alice Fisher|last=Fisher|first=Alice|date=2017-10-15|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-08-19}}</ref>

===Violets===
[[File:Viola uliginosa Sturm53.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Viola flower]]

[[Viola (plant)#Cultural associations|Violets]] and their [[Violet (color)#Social movement|color]] became a special code used by lesbians and bisexual women.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Alyson Almanac: A Treasury of Information for the Gay and Lesbian Community|date=1989|publisher=[[Alyson Publications]]|location=Boston, Massachusetts|page=100|chapter=Gay Symbols Through the Ages|isbn=0-932870-19-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Myers|first1=JoAnne|title=The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage (The A to Z Guide Series, No. 73 )|date=2003|publisher=[[The Scarecrow Press]]|location=Lanham, Maryland|page=242|edition=1st|isbn=978-0-8108-6811-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Horak|first1=Laura|title=Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934|date=2016|publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]]|pages=143–144|chapter=Lesbians Take Center Stage: The Captive (1926-1928)|isbn=978-0-8135-7483-7}}</ref> The symbolism of the flower derives from several fragments of poems by [[Sappho]] in which she describes a lover wearing garlands or a crown with violets.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Collecott|first1=Diana|title=H.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910-1950|date=1999|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|location=Cambridge, UK|page=216|edition=1st|isbn=0-521-55078-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Fantham|first1=Elaine|last2=Foley|first2=Helene Peet|last3=Kampen|first3=Natalie Boymel|last4=Pomeroy|first4=Sarah B.|last5=Shapiro|first5=H. A.|title=Women in the Classical World: Image and Text|date=1994|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=New York|page=15|edition=1st|isbn=978-0-19-506727-9}}</ref> In 1926, the play ''[[The Captive (play)|La Prisonnière]]'' by [[Édouard Bourdet]] used a bouquet of violets to signify lesbian love.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cohen-Stratyner|first1=Barbara|title=Violets and Vandamm|url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/01/14/violets-vandamm|website=[[New York Public Library]]|date=January 14, 2014|accessdate=4 October 2018}}</ref> When the play became subject to censorship, many Parisian lesbians wore violets to demonstrate solidarity with its lesbian subject matter.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sova|first1=Dawn B.|title=Banned Plays: Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas|date=2004|publisher=[[Facts On File]]|pages=37–40|edition=1st|isbn=0-8160-4018-4}}</ref>

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==Triangle badges of the Third Reich==
{{Main|Pink triangle|Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust}}

One of the oldest of these symbols is the inverted [[pink triangle]] that male homosexuals in [[Nazi concentration camps]] were required to wear on their clothing. The badge is one of several [[Nazi concentration camp badges|badges]] that internees wore to identify what kind of prisoners they were.<ref name=Plant1988>{{Cite book | last=Plant | first=Richard | year=1988 | title=The pink triangle: the Nazi war against homosexuals | edition=revised | publisher=H. Holt | isbn=978-0-8050-0600-1 | url=https://books.google.com/?id=ZKSbQbEzif8C | page=175 | postscript=. }}</ref> Many of the estimated 5,000–15,000 gay men and lesbians imprisoned in [[concentration camp]]s died during [[the Holocaust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/ |title=Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945 |publisher=Ushmm.org |date= |accessdate=2012-01-23 |deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119045626/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/ |archivedate=2012-01-19 |df= }}</ref> The pink triangle was later reclaimed by gay men, as well as some lesbians, in various political movements as a symbol of personal pride and remembrance.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShPyCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27#v=onepage&q=pink%20triangle|title=Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory|last=Stier|first=Oren Baruch|date=2015|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813574059|language=en}}</ref><ref name="remember1" /> AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ([[ACT-UP]]) adopted the inverted pink triangle to symbolize the "active fight back" against [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]] "rather than a passive resignation to fate."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSn7026sq_cC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47#v=onepage&q=rather%20than%20a%20passive%20resignation%20to%20fate%20HIV|title=Gayle: The Language of Kinks and Queens : a History and Dictionary of Gay Language in South Africa|last=Cage|first=Ken|last2=Evans|first2=Moyra|date=2003-01-01|publisher=Jacana Media|isbn=9781919931494|language=en}}</ref>

The pink triangle was used exclusively with male prisoners, as lesbians were not included under [[Paragraph 175]], a statute which made homosexual acts between males a crime. The [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)]] stipulates that this was because women were seen as subordinate to men, and the [[Third Reich|Nazi state]] did not feel that homosexual women presented the same threat to masculinity as homosexual men. According to USHMM, many women were arrested and imprisoned for "asocial" behavior, a classification applied to those who did not conform to the [[Nazism|Nazi]] ideal of a woman's role: cooking, cleaning, kitchen work, child raising, and passivity. Asocial women were tagged with an inverted [[Black triangle (badge)|black triangle]].<ref name=USHMM1 /> Many lesbians reclaimed this symbol for themselves as gay men reclaimed the pink triangle.<ref name="remember1"/>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! style="width:33.33%;" | Pink Triangle
! style="width:33.33%;" | Black Triangle
! style="width:33.33%;" | Pink & Yellow Triangles

|-
| [[File:Pink triangle.svg|100px]]
| [[File:Black triangle.svg|100px]]
| [[File:Pink triangle jew.svg|100px]]

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| The inverted pink triangle used to identify homosexual men in the concentration camps.
| The inverted black triangle used to mark individuals considered "asocial". The category included homosexual women, nonconformists, sex workers, [[nomad]]s, [[Romani people|Romani]], and others.
| The inverted pink triangle overlapping a yellow triangle was used to single out male homosexual prisoners that were [[Jew]]ish.
|}
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==Gallery==
===LGBT pride flags===
These LGBT flags represent the [[LGBT social movements|LGBT movement]] as a whole or different sexualities, gender identities, romantic orientations and/or sex.

{{gallery|mode=nolines|whitebg=y|height=60
|Gay flag.svg|[[Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)|Gay]]
|Agender pride flag.svg|[[Genderqueer#Agender|Agender]]<ref name="Ref29"/>
|Aromantic Flag.svg|[[Aromantic]]<ref name="QueerEvents"/>
|Asexual flag.svg|[[Asexuality#Community|Asexual]]
|Bi flag.svg|[[Bisexual pride flag|Bisexual]]
|Genderfluidity Pride-Flag.svg|[[Genderfluid]]
|Genderqueer flag-pride.svg|[[Genderqueer#Symbols|Genderqueer]]
|Intersex flag.svg|[[Intersex flag|Intersex]]
|Lesbian Pride Flag 2019.svg|[[Lesbian]]<ref name="BBC">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-london-48885240/pride-in-london-what-do-all-the-flags-mean|title=Pride in London: What do all the flags mean?|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=6 July 2019|accessdate=6 July 2019|author=Paul Murphy-Kasp}}</ref>
|Labrys_Lesbian_Flag.svg|Lesbian ([[labrys]] design)<ref name="Ref29"/>
|Nonbinary flag.svg|[[Non-binary]]
|Pansexuality flag.svg|[[Pansexual Pride flag|Pansexual]]
|Polysexuality Pride Flag.svg|[[Polysexuality|Polysexual]]
|Transgender Pride flag.svg|[[Transgender flags#Transgender Pride Flag|Transgender]]
|title=}}

===Subculture flags===
{{gallery|mode=nolines|whitebg=y|height=60
|Bear Brotherhood flag.svg|[[Bear flag (gay culture)|Bear Brotherhood]]
|Leather,_Latex,_and_BDSM_pride_-_Light.svg|[[Leather Pride flag]]
|Lipstick Lesbian flag without lips.svg|[[Lipstick lesbian]]
|Lipstick lesbian flag.svg|Lipstick lesbian {{nowrap|(original design)}}
|title=}}

===Location-based flags===
{{gallery|mode=nolines|whitebg=y|height=60
|Philadelphia Pride Flag.svg|Philadelphia, United States [[Person of color|People of color]] pride flag<ref name=Philadelphia>{{Cite web|last1=Owens|first1=Ernest|url=https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/06/08/philly-pride-flag-black-brown/|title=Philly's Pride Flag to Get Two New Stripes: Black and Brown|website=[[Philadelphia (magazine)|Philadelphia]]|date=June 8, 2017|accessdate=26 May 2019}}</ref>
|Gay Flag of South Africa.svg|South Africa [[Gay pride flag of South Africa]]<ref name=SoAfrica>{{cite web|last1=Grange|first1=Helen|title=Coming out is risky business|url=https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/love-sex/relationships/coming-out-is-risky-business-1019307|website=[[Independent Online (South Africa)|Independent Online]]|date=31 January 2011|accessdate=4 July 2019}}</ref>
}}

===Other===
<gallery widths="100px">
File:Bi triangles.svg|[[Biangles]] (represents Bisexuality)
File:Bisexual-moon-symbol.svg|[[Bisexuality#Symbols|Double moon]] (represents Bisexuality)
File:Double Venus.svg|[[Gender symbol#Sociology|Double female symbol]] (represents Lesbian women)
File:Double mars symbol.svg|[[Gender symbol#Sociology|Double male symbol]] (represents Gay men)
File:Labrys-symbol.svg|[[Labrys#Social movement|Labrys]] (represents Lesbian feminism)
File:Lambda-letter-lowercase-symbol-Garamond.svg|[[Lambda#Lower-case letter λ|Lambda]] (represents Gay Liberation)
File:Pansexual symbol.PNG|[[Pansexual pride flag|Pansexual symbol]]
File:A TransGender-Symbol black-and-white.svg|[[Transgender flags|Transgender symbol]]
File:A Transfeminist-Symbol black-and-white.svg|[[Trans feminism|Trans feminist symbol]]
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Portal|LGBT|Heraldry and vexillology}}
* [[LGBT slogans]]
* [[White Knot]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|LGBT symbols}}
*[http://www.swade.net/gallery/symbols.html Origin & History of Gay & Lesbian Symbols] shows images of some of these symbols and offers a brief historical account of each.

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[[Category:LGBT symbols]]
[[Category:Lists of symbols|LGBT]]

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The [[LGBT community]] has adopted certain [[symbols]] for [[Identity (social science)|self-identification]] to demonstrate unity, [[gay pride|pride]], shared values, and allegiance to one another. '''LGBT symbols''' communicate ideas, concepts, and identity both within their communities and to mainstream culture. The two most-recognized international LGBT symbols are the [[pink triangle]] and the [[rainbow flag (LGBT movement)|rainbow flag]]. The rainbow flag, previously used as a symbol of unity among all people, was adopted to be a more organic and natural replacement without any negativity attached to it.

==Flags==
{{Main|Pride flag}}

===Rainbow===
{{Main|Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)}}

[[Gilbert Baker (artist)|Gilbert Baker]] designed the [[Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)|rainbow]] [[Gay pride|Pride]] flag for the 1978 [[San Francisco Pride|San Francisco Gay Freedom Day]] celebration. The flag does not depict an actual rainbow. Rather, the colors of the rainbow are displayed as horizontal stripes, with red at the top and violet at the bottom. It represents the diversity of gays and lesbians around the world. In the original eight-color version, pink stood for sexuality, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for the sun, green for nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for spirit.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/students/ally/lgbtsymbols/ |title=Carleton College: Gender and Sexuality Center: Symbols of Pride of the LGBTQ Community |publisher=Apps.carleton.edu |date=2005-04-26 |accessdate=2012-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210045929/http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/students/ally/lgbtsymbols/ |archive-date=2012-02-10 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</ref> A copy of the original 20-by-30 foot, eight-color flag was remade by Baker in 2000, and was installed in the [[Castro District, San Francisco|Castro district]] in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rochman|first1=Sue|title=Rainbow flap|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CGMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16#v=onepage&q=original%20pride%20flag%20flies%20in%20the%20castro |website=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|page=16|date=June 20, 2000|accessdate=21 August 2018}}</ref> Many variations on the rainbow flag exist, including incorporating other LGBT symbols like the triangle or lambda.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/orgs/avproject/symbols.htm |title=Symbols of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements |author=Riffenburg, Charles Edward IV |date=2004 |website=Queer Resources Directory |publisher= |access-date=July 25, 2019 }}</ref>

{{gallery|mode=nolines|whitebg=y|height=60
|Gay flag 8.svg|Original eight-stripe version designed by Gilbert Baker (1978)
|Gay flag 7.svg|Seven-stripe version with hot pink color removed due to a lack of fabric (1978–1979)
|Gay Pride Flag.svg|Six-stripes version with turquoise color removed and indigo color changed to royal blue (1979-present)
}}

===Asexuality===
{{Main|Asexuality}}
[[File:Asexual flag.svg|thumb|right|150px|alt=Black, gray, white, purple stripes|Asexual pride, adopted in 2010]]

The asexual pride flag consists of four horizontal stripes: black, gray, white, and purple from top to bottom.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bilić |first1=Bojan |last2=Kajinić |first2=Sanja |title=Intersectionality and LGBT Activist Politics: Multiple Others in Croatia and Serbia | publisher=Springer | date=2016 |pages=95–96}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Decker |first1=Julie |title=The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality | publisher=Skyhorse}}</ref> The flag was created by AVEN user standup in August 2010, as part of a community effort to create and choose a flag.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Asexuality Flag |url=http://www.asexualityarchive.com/the-asexuality-flag/ |publisher=Asexuality Archive}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2019}} The black stripe represents asexuality; the gray stripe represents gray-aces and demisexuals; the white stripe represents allies; and the purple stripe represents community.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Storied Glossary of Iconic LGBT Flags and Symbols |url=https://mashable.com/2014/06/13/lgbt-pride-symbols/#qHywYTWpigqr |publisher=Mashable}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Sobel |first=Ariel |url=https://www.advocate.com/pride/2018/6/13/complete-guide-queer-pride-flags#media-gallery-media-8 |title=The Complete Guide to Queer Pride Flags |publisher=Advocate.com |date=2018-06-13 |accessdate=2018-06-28}}</ref>

===Bear culture===
{{Main|Bear flag (gay culture)}}
[[File:Bear Brotherhood flag.svg|thumb|left|150px|alt=Bear Brotherhood flag|[[Bear flag (gay culture)|International Bear Brotherhood]], adopted in 1995]]

''Bear'' is an affectionate [[gay slang]] term for those in the bear communities, a subculture in the [[gay community]] and an emerging subset of the LGBT community with its own events, codes, and culture-specific identity. Bears tend to have hairy bodies and [[facial hair]]; some are [[overweight|heavy-set]]; some project an image of working-class [[masculinity]] in their [[Personal grooming|grooming]] and appearance, though none of these are requirements or unique indicators. The bear concept can function as an identity, an affiliation, and an ideal to live up to. There is ongoing debate in bear communities about what constitutes a bear. Some state that self-identifying as a bear is the only requirement, while others argue that bears must have certain physical characteristics, such as a hairy chest and face, a large body, or a certain mode of dress and behavior.

Bears are almost always [[gay]] or [[bisexuality|bisexual]] men; [[transgender]] men (regardless of their sexuality) and those who shun labels for [[gender]] and [[Sexual identity|sexuality]] are increasingly included within bear communities. The bear community has spread all over the world, with bear clubs in many countries. Bear clubs often serve as social and sexual networks for older, hairier, sometimes heavier gay and bisexual men, and members often contribute to their local gay communities through fundraising and other functions. Bear events are common in heavily gay communities.

The [[Bear flag (gay culture)|International Bear Brotherhood Flag]] was designed in 1995 by Craig Byrnes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bearmfg.com/history/history.html |title=Flag History |publisher=Bearmfg.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211094128/http://www.bearmfg.com/history/history.html |archive-date=2012-02-11 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</ref>

===Bisexuality===
{{Main|Bisexual pride flag}}
[[File:Bi flag.svg|thumb|right|150px|Bisexual pride, adopted in 1998|alt=Magenta, lavender, and blue stripes]]

First unveiled on 5 December 1998,<ref name="biflag">{{cite web|url=http://www.biflag.com/Activism.asp |title=History, Bi Activism, Free Graphics |publisher=BiFlag.com |date=1998-12-05 |accessdate=2012-01-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204070907/http://www.biflag.com/Activism.asp | archive-date=2012-02-04 | deadurl=yes}}</ref> the [[bisexual pride flag]] was designed by Michael Page to represent and increase visibility of bisexuals in the LGBT community and society as a whole. This rectangular flag consists of a broad magenta stripe at the top, a broad stripe in blue at the bottom, and a narrower deep lavender band occupying the central fifth.

Page describes the meaning of the pink, lavender, and blue (ratio 2:1:2) flag as this: "The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (lesbian). The blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (straight) and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes (bi)."
He also describes the flag's meaning in deeper terms, stating "The key to understanding the symbolism of the Bisexual pride flag is to know that the purple pixels of color blend unnoticeably into both the pink and blue, just as in the 'real world,' where bi people blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.<ref name="mashableglossary">{{cite web|last1=Petronzio|first1=Matt|title=A Storied Glossary of Iconic LGBT Flags and Symbols|url=https://mashable.com/2014/06/13/lgbt-pride-symbols/#co._PVJ5mgqY|website=[[Mashable]]|date=June 13, 2014|accessdate=17 July 2014}}</ref>

The blue and pink overlapping triangle symbol represents [[bisexuality]] and bi pride. The origin of the symbol, sometimes facetiously referred to as the "biangles", is largely unknown, however the colors of bisexuality originate from this symbol: pink for attraction to women, blue for attraction to men, and lavender for attraction to both, as well as a reference to queerness.<ref name="mashableglossary" />

===Intersex===
{{Main|Intersex flag}}
[[File:Intersex flag.svg|thumb|left|150px|alt=A yellow background with a purple circle in the middle, representing intersex people.|[[Intersex flag|Intersex pride]], adopted in 2013]]

[[Intersex]] people are those who do not exhibit all the biological characteristics of male or female, or exhibit a combination of characteristics, at birth. Between 0.05% and 1.7% of the population is estimated to have intersex traits.<ref name="United Nations Free & Equal factsheet on Intersex">https://www.unfe.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/UNFE-Intersex.pdf</ref><ref name="ISNA frequency">{{cite web|url=http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency |title=How common is intersex? | Intersex Society of North America |publisher=Isna.org |date= |accessdate=2009-08-21}}</ref>

The intersex flag was created by [[Morgan Carpenter]] of [[Intersex Human Rights Australia]] in July 2013 to create a flag "that is not derivative, but is yet firmly grounded in meaning". The organization describes the circle as "unbroken and unornamented, symbolising wholeness and completeness, and our potentialities. We are still fighting for bodily autonomy and genital integrity, and this symbolises the right to be who and how we want to be".<ref>[http://ihra.org.au/22773/an-intersex-flag/ An intersex flag], [[Intersex Human Rights Australia]], 5 July 2013</ref><ref>[https://www.amnesty.org.au/features/comments/32251/ Are you male, female or intersex?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923072805/http://www.amnesty.org.au/features/comments/32251 |date=2016-09-23 }}, Amnesty International Australia, 11 July 2013</ref><ref>[http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/intersex-advocates-address-findings-of-senate-committee-into-involuntary-sterilisation-12237.html Intersex advocates address findings of Senate Committee into involuntary sterilisation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115130147/http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/intersex-advocates-address-findings-of-senate-committee-into-involuntary-sterilisation-12237.html |date=2016-01-15 }}, Gay News Network, 28 October 2013</ref>

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===Lesbianism===

No flag design for a lesbian pride flag has been widely adopted.<ref name=Bendix>{{cite web|last1=Bendix|first1=Trish|title=Why don't lesbians have a pride flag of our own?|url=https://www.afterellen.com/people/452039-dont-lesbians-pride-flag|website=[[AfterEllen]]|date=September 8, 2015|accessdate=8 June 2019|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909150736/https://www.afterellen.com/people/452039-dont-lesbians-pride-flag|archivedate=September 9, 2015}}</ref>

The [[labrys]] [[lesbian]] flag was created in 1999 by graphic designer Sean Campbell, and published in June 2000 in the Palm Springs edition of the ''[[Gay and Lesbian Times]]'' Pride issue.<ref name=Advocate>{{cite web|last=Sobel|first=Ariel|url=https://www.advocate.com/pride/2018/6/13/complete-guide-queer-pride-flags#media-gallery-media-8|title=The Complete Guide to Queer Pride Flags|work=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|date=June 13, 2018|accessdate=28 June 2018}}</ref><ref name=Bendix /><ref name="Ref29">{{Cite web|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/lgbt-pride-flags-meaning|title=A Complete Guide To All The LGBTQ+ Flags & What They Mean|date=19 June 2019|accessdate=6 July 2019|publisher=[[Refinery29]]|author=Kasandra Brabaw}}</ref>The design involves a labrys superimposed on the inverted [[Black triangle (badge)|black triangle]], set against a [[Violet (color)#Social movement|violet]] [[hue]] background. The labrys was used as an ancient religious symbol,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Keller|first=Mara|date=1988|title=Eleusinian Mysteries|url=http://www.ciis.edu/Documents/Keller%20Eleusinian%20Mysteries%201988%20part2_1.pdf|journal=Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion|issue=Vol 4 No 1|page=42|doi=|pmid=|access-date=2016-06-21}}</ref> and for other various purposes.<ref>Caterina Mavriyannaki, "La double hache dans le monde héllenique à l'âge du bronze," ''Revue Archéologique'', New series (1983:195-228). In French.</ref>{{Specify|date=July 2019}} In the 1970s it was adopted as a symbol of empowerment by the [[Lesbian feminism|lesbian feminist]] community.<ref name="Cottingham1996">{{cite book|last=Cottingham|first=Laura|title=Lesbians Are So Chic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TWgbAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=26 June 2014|year=1996|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=9780304337217}}</ref><ref name="Murphy2013">{{cite book|last=Murphy|first=Timothy|title=Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FeWMAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA44|accessdate=26 June 2014|date=2013-10-18|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135942342|page=44ff.}}</ref><ref name="Pea">{{cite web|last1=Pea|first1=Georgie|title=LABRYS Tool of Lesbian Feminism|url=http://findinglesbians.blogspot.com/2013/08/labrys-tool-of-lesbian-feminism.html|website=Finding Lesbians|date=9 August 2013|accessdate=4 August 2018}}</ref> Women considered asocial by the [[Third Reich]] because they did not conform to the [[Nazism|Nazi]] ideal of a woman, which included [[homosexuality|homosexual females]], were condemned to [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camps]] and wore an inverted [[Black triangle (badge)|black triangle]] badge to identify them.<ref name="remember1" /><ref name=USHMM1>{{cite web|title=Lesbians and the Third Reich|url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005478|publisher=[[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]]|accessdate=16 January 2015}}</ref> Some lesbians reclaimed this symbol as gay men reclaimed the pink triangle (many lesbians also reclaimed the pink triangle although lesbians were not included in [[Paragraph 175]] of the [[Strafgesetzbuch|German criminal code]]).<ref name="remember1">{{Cite news|last1=Elman|first1=R. Amy|title=Triangles and Tribulations: The Politics of Nazi Symbols|url=http://remember.org/educate/elman|website=Remember.org|access-date=2016-12-10}} (Originally published in the [[Journal of Homosexuality]]: 30 (3): 1–11, 1996, ISSN 0091-8369)</ref>

The [[lipstick lesbian]] flag consists of six shades of red and pink colors and a white bar in the center, the original design also including a [[:File:Lipstick_lesbian_Pride_Flag.svg|red kiss]].<ref name="QueerEvents">{{cite web|title=Queer Community Flags|url=https://www.queerevents.ca/queer-corner/blog/queer-community-flags|website=Queer Events|date=September 14, 2018|accessdate=4 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=Mathers>{{cite web|last1=Mathers|first1=Charlie|title=18 Pride flags you might not have seen before|url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/pride-flag-community/|website=[[Gay Star News]]|date=1 January 2018|accessdate=4 June 2019}}</ref> This flag was originally introduced in the [[Blog|weblog]] ''This Lesbian Life'' in 2010.<ref name=Mathers /><ref name="QueerEvents"/> The lipstick lesbian flag represents "homosexual women who have a more feminine gender expression".<ref name=Blaxk>{{cite web|last1=Blaxk|first1=Natasha A.|last2=Stern|first2=Alana|title=9 Queer Pride Flags That You Probably Didn't Know About|url=https://www.theodysseyonline.com/9-queer-pride-flags-that-you-probably-didnt-know-about|website=[[Odyssey (publication)|Odyssey]]|date=June 22, 2016|accessdate=23 January 2019}}</ref> The flag and its kissless variant have not been widely adopted.<ref name="QueerEvents"/>

{{gallery|mode=nolines|whitebg=y|height=60
|Labrys_Lesbian_Flag.svg|[[Labrys]] lesbian flag created in 1999
|Lipstick_Lesbian_flag_without_lips.svg|[[Lipstick lesbian]] flag based on 2010 design
|Lesbian Pride Flag 2019.svg|Lesbian pride flag created in 2018
}}

===Non-binary===
[[File:Nonbinary_flag.svg|thumb|right|150px|alt=Yellow, white, light purple, and black stripes.|Nonbinary pride, adopted in 2014]]

The [[non-binary]] flag was created in 2014 by activist Kye Rowan.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Glass |first1=Jess |title=Pride flags: All of the flags you might see at Pride and what they mean |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/26/all-of-the-flags-you-might-see-at-pride-and-what-they-mean/ |website=PinkNewa |publisher=PinkNews |accessdate=19 April 2019}}</ref> Each stripe color represents different types of non-binary identities: Yellow for people who identify outside of the gender binary, white for nonbinary people with multiple genders, purple for those with a mixture of both male and female genders, and black for [[agender]] individuals.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Anonymous |title=Everything you never understood about being nonbinary |url=https://www.gaygull.com/everything-never-understood-nonbinary/ |website=Gaygull |publisher=Gaygull |accessdate=19 April 2019}}</ref>

Under the non-binary umbrella are all those who identify off the [[gender binary]]. There are many different identities within this category including [[androgyny]], [[genderqueer]]ness (which includes agender, ceterosexual, gender fluid, intergender), [[third gender]], and [[transgender]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Gender Alphabet|url=http://www.safehomesma.org/gender_alphabet.pdf|website=Safe Homes|publisher=Open Sky Community Services|date=2010|accessdate=17 May 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Kandola|first1=Aaron|title=What does nonbinary mean?|url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321529.php|website=[[Medical News Today]]|publisher=Healthline Media UK|date=18 April 2018|accessdate=17 May 2019}}</ref>

===Pansexuality===
[[File:Pansexuality flag.svg|thumb|left|150px|alt=Pink, yellow, and light blue stripes.|Pansexual pride, adopted in 2010]]

The [[pansexual pride flag]] has been found on various Internet sites since mid-2010.<ref name="wings">{{cite web | url=http://www.freedomrequireswings.com/2012/11/do-you-have-flag.html | title=Do You Have a Flag? | date=9 November 2012 | accessdate=17 July 2014}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=July 2019}} It has three horizontal bars that are pink, yellow and blue.<ref name="Shenandoah">{{cite web | url=http://www.su.edu/event/pansexual-pride-day/ | title=Pansexual Pride Day | work=[[Shenandoah University]] | accessdate=17 July 2014}}</ref> The pink band symbolizes women; the blue, men; and the yellow, those of a [[non-binary gender]], such as [[agender]], [[bigender]] or [[genderfluid]].<ref name="wings" /><ref name="clare">{{cite web | url=http://clarebayley.com/2013/06/a-field-guide-to-pride-flags/ | title=A field guide to Pride flags | date=27 June 2013 | accessdate=17 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="mashableglossary" /><ref name="ucsc">{{cite web | url=http://queer.ucsc.edu/resources/sexualities.html | title=Cantú Queer Center - Sexuality Resources | accessdate=17 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="overtherainbow">{{cite web | url=http://www.overtherainbowshop.com/symbols.htm | title=Gay & Lesbian Pride Symbols - Common Pride Symbols and Their Meanings | accessdate=17 July 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160928022535/http://www.overtherainbowshop.com/symbols.htm | archive-date=2016-09-28 | dead-url=yes | df= }}</ref>

A "P" with the tail converted to an arrow with a cross is also sometimes used. It predates the flag and is still in use today. The cross on the "P"'s tail refers to the cross on the Venus or female symbol (♀), and the arrow refers to the arrow on the Mars or male symbol (♂).<ref name="Pansexual Files">{{cite web | url=https://avia-viridis.neocities.org/sof/pan.html | title=Sexual Orientation Files: Pansexual | accessdate=27 June 2018}}</ref> While it does not technically have a name, it is sometimes colloquially referred to as "the pansexual symbol".

===Transgender===
[[File:Transgender Pride flag.svg|thumb|right|150px|[[Transgender flags|Transgender pride]], adopted in 1999]]

A transgender symbol is the [[Transgender flags#Transgender Pride Flag|Transgender Pride Flag]] designed by transgender woman [[Monica Helms]] in 1999,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/art/2014/11/12/smithsonians-queer-collection | title=The Smithsonian's Queer Collection | publisher=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]] | date=12 November 2014 | accessdate=5 June 2015 | author=Fairyington, Stephanie}}</ref> which was first shown at a pride parade in Phoenix, Arizona, US in 2000.<ref name=transcastro>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/transgender-flag_n_2166742.html "Transgender Flag Flies In San Francisco's Castro District After Outrage From Activists" by Aaron Sankin], HuffingtonPost, November 20, 2012</ref> It was flown from a large public flagpole in San Francisco's [[Castro District]] beginning November 19, 2012 in commemoration of the [[Transgender Day of Remembrance]].<ref name=transcastro /> The flag represents the transgender community and consists of five horizontal stripes: two light blue, two pink, with a white stripe in the center. Helms described the meaning of the flag as follows:
:"The stripes at the top and bottom are light blue, the traditional color for baby boys. The stripes next to them are pink, the traditional color for baby girls.<ref name=transcastro /> The white stripe is for people that are nonbinary, feel that they don't have a gender."<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/we-have-a-navy-veteran-to-thank-for-the-transgender-pride-flag_us_5978c060e4b0e201d57a711f | title = We Have A Navy Veteran To Thank For The Transgender Pride Flag | first1 = Emma | last1 = Gray | first2 = Alanna | last2 = Vagianos | work = Huffington Post | date = July 27, 2017 | accessdate = 2017-08-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bransonlb/the-veteran-who-created-the-trans-pride-flag-reacts-to | title = The Veteran Who Created The Trans Pride Flag Reacts To Trump's Trans Military Ban | first = Branson | last = LB | work = Buzzfeed | date = July 26, 2017 | accessdate = 2018-08-31}}</ref> The pattern is such that no matter which way you fly it, it is always correct, signifying us finding correctness in our lives.<ref name=transcastro />

[[Philadelphia]] became the first county government in the U.S. to raise the transgender pride flag in 2015. It was raised at [[Philadelphia City Hall|City Hall]] in honor of Philadelphia's 14th Annual [[Mazzoni Center|Trans Health Conference,]] and remained next to the US and City of Philadelphia flags for the entirety of the conference. Then-[[Michael Nutter|Mayor Michael Nutter]] gave a speech in honor of the trans community's acceptance in Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2015/06/04/philadelphia-raises-transgender-pride-flag-first-time|title=Philadelphia Raises the Transgender Pride Flag for the First Time|last=|first=|date=|access-date=|work=The Advocate}}</ref>

==Other symbols==
In addition to major symbols of the LGBT community, symbols have been used to represent members' unity, pride, shared values, and allegiance to one another.

===Ace ring===
[[File:Asexual ring.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Ace ring]]

A black ring (also known as an ace ring) worn on the middle finger of one's right hand is a way [[Asexuality|asexual]] people signify their asexuality. The ring is deliberately worn in a similar manner as one would a [[wedding ring]] to symbolize marriage. Use of the symbol began in 2005.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Chasin | first1=CJ DeLuzio | title=Reconsidering Asexuality and Its Radical Potential | url=http://chasin.ca/cj/Chasin_Reconsidering.Asexuality_FS.Vol39.2_2013.pdf | journal=[[Feminist Studies]] | year=2013 | volume=39 | issue=2| pages=405–426 | issn=0046-3663}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Besanvalle |first1=James |title=Here’s a handy way to tell if someone you meet is asexual |url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/handy-way-tell-someone-asexual-ace-ring/#gs.gbPp1y3w |website=[[Gay Star News]] |date=31 July 2018 |accessdate=18 February 2019}}</ref>

===Blue feather===
In the [[Society for Creative Anachronism]], LGBT members often wear a blue feather to indicate an affiliation with Clan Blue Feather, a group of SCA members promoting the study of LGBT culture and people in the Middle Ages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bluefeather.org |title=Clan Blue Feather |publisher=Bluefeather.org |date= |accessdate=2018-06-28}}</ref> Because of this affiliation, blue feathers have also been used at some [[Renaissance fair|Renaissance Faires]] and [[Pagan]] events.

===Calamus plant===
[[File:AcorusCalamus2.jpg|thumb|right|105px|Acorus Calamus]]

According to some interpretations, American poet [[Walt Whitman]] used the [[Sweet flag|calamus]] plant to represent homoerotic love.<ref>{{cite book|last=Herrero-Brasas|first= Juan A.|title=Walt Whitman's Mystical Ethics of Comradeship: Homosexuality and the Marginality of Friendship at the Crossroads of Modernity|year=2010|publisher=SUNY|isbn=978-1-4384-3011-9|page=46|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ca4FuDfH-cMC&pg=PA46}}</ref>

===Double-gender===
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[[File:Westerkerk - Gay symbols 2.jpg|thumb|left|130px|Lesbian and gay gender sex symbols]]

Interlocked [[gender symbol]]s. Each gender symbol derives from the [[Astronomical symbols|astronomical symbol]] for the planet [[Venus]] and [[Mars]]. In modern science, the singular symbol for Venus is used to represent the [[Female|female sex]], and singular symbol for Mars is used to represent the [[Male|male sex]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Melissa|title=The Origin of the Male and Female Symbols|url=http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/05/origin-male-female-symbols/#_edn1|website=Today I Found Out|date=May 8, 2015|accessdate=22 August 2018}}</ref> Two interlocking female symbols <big>(⚢)</big> represent a lesbian or the lesbian community, and two interlocking male symbols <big>(⚣)</big> a gay male or the gay male community.<ref name="zimmerman_symbols">{{cite book|editor1-last=Zimmerman|editor1-first=Bonnie|title=Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures|date=2000|publisher=[[Garland Publishing]]|volume=1 (Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia)|page=748|edition=1st|chapter=Symbols (by Christy Stevens)|isbn=0-8153-1920-7}}</ref><ref name="lambdasymbols" />

The symbols first appeared in the 1970s.<ref name="lambdasymbols">{{cite web|title=Symbols of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements|url=http://www.lambda.org/symbols.htm |website=lambda.org|publisher=LAMBDA GLBT Community Services|date=December 26, 2004|accessdate=22 August 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051230095156/http://www.lambda.org/symbols.htm|archivedate=December 30, 2005}}</ref>

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===Freedom rings===
Freedom rings, designed by [[David Spada]], are six aluminum rings, each in one of the colors of the rainbow flag. They were released in 1991.<ref name="nytimesrings">{{cite news | last = Van Gelder| first = Lindsy| title = Thing; Freedom Rings| newspaper = New York Times| date = 1992-06-21| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/21/style/thing-freedom-rings.html| accessdate = 2010-07-21}}</ref>
Symbolizing happiness and diversity, these rings are worn by themselves or as part of necklaces, bracelets, and key chains.<ref name="nytimesrings"/>

They are sometimes referred to as "Fruit Loops".<ref name="Cassell's Dictionary of Slang">{{cite book|last=Green|first=Jonathon|title=Cassell's Dictionary of Slang|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|date=2006|isbn=0-304-36636-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my_ut0maeV4C&pg=PA549#PPA549,M1|accessdate=2007-11-15}}</ref>

===Green carnation===
[[File:Green Carnation.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Green carnation]]

In [[:Category:19th century in England|19th-century England]], [[green]] indicated homosexual affiliations. [[Victorian era|Victorian]] gay men would often pin a green [[Dianthus caryophyllus|carnation]] on their lapel as popularized by openly gay author [[Oscar Wilde]], who often wore one on his lapel.<ref>Stetz, Margaret D. (Winter 2000). [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/biography/v023/23.1stetz.html ''Oscar Wilde at the Movies: British Sexual Politics and The Green Carnation (1960)'']; Biography – Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2000, pp. 90–107. Retrieved 14 June 2010.</ref><ref>''Curiosities of Literature'' by John Sutherland (2011, {{isbn|1-61608-074-4}}), pp. 73-76.</ref>

===Handkerchief code===
{{Main|Handkerchief code}}

In the early 20th century gay men in New York City's Caucasian professional world would often wear red neckties to signal their identity. This practice was later expanded into a system called flagging, or the [[Handkerchief code|hanky code]].<ref name="Chauncey1994">{{cite book|author=George Chauncey|title=Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NNHGuVdPELYC&pg=PA52|year=1994|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=978-0-465-02621-0|page=52}}</ref>

===Lambda===
[[File:Lambda-letter-lowercase-symbol-Garamond.svg|thumb|left|75px|[[Lambda]] – Greek alphabet letter]]

In 1970, graphic designer [[Tom Doerr]] selected the lower-case Greek letter [[Lambda#Lower-case letter λ|lambda]] to be the symbol of the New York chapter of the [[Gay Activists Alliance]].<ref name=Rapp_alliance>{{cite web|last=Rapp|first=Linda|title=Gay Activists Alliance|url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/gay_activists_alliance_S.pdf|website=[[glbtq.com]]|year=2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=1969, The Year of Gay Liberation|url=http://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/1969/ref/1696848.html|website=[[The New York Public Library]]|date=June 2009|accessdate=17 November 2018}}</ref> The alliance's literature states that Doerr chose the symbol specifically for its denotative meaning in the context of chemistry and [[Lambda transition|physics]]: "a complete exchange of energy–that moment or span of time witness to absolute activity".<ref name=Rapp_alliance />

The lambda became associated with [[Gay Liberation]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Goodwin|first1=Joseph P.|title=More Man Than You'll Ever Be: Gay Folklore and Acculturation in Middle America|date=1989|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|page=26|chapter=It Takes One to Know One|isbn=978-0253338938}}</ref><ref name=Rapp_symbols>{{cite web|last1=Rapp|first1=Linda|title=Symbols|url=http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/symbols_A.pdf|website=[[glbtq.com]]|date=2003}}</ref> and in December 1974, it was officially declared the international symbol for gay and lesbian rights by the [[International Gay Rights Congress]] in Edinburgh, Scotland.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Haggerty|editor1-first=George E.|title=Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures, Volume II)|date=2000|publisher=[[Garland Publishing]]|location=London|page=529|edition=1|quote=[[WorldCat|OCLC]] Number: 750790369|isbn=0-8153-1880-4}}</ref> The gay rights organization [[Lambda Legal]] and the American [[Lambda Literary Foundation]] derive their names from this symbol.

===Purple hand===
{{See also|Lavender Mafia}}

On October 31, 1969, sixty members of the [[Gay Liberation Front]] (GLF), the Committee for Homosexual Freedom (CHF), and the Gay Guerilla Theatre group staged a protest outside the offices of the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'' in response to a series of news articles disparaging [[LGBT]] people in San Francisco's [[gay bar]]s and clubs.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Teal |first1=Donn |title=The Gay Militants: How Gay Liberation Began in America, 1969-1971 |date=1971 |pages=52-58 |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]] |location=New York |isbn=0312112793 }}</ref><ref name=Gould_book>{{cite magazine |last=Gould|first=Robert E.|title=What We Don't Know About Homosexuality|publisher=[[New York Times Magazine]]|date= 24 February 1974|accessdate=January 1, 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wfHq53yNCYC&pg=PA371&num=100&as_brr=0#PPA344,M1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Laurence |first1=Leo E. |title=Gays Penetrate Examiner |url=https://voices.revealdigital.com/?a=d&d=BFBJFGJ19691031.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------------1 |work=[[Berkeley Tribe]] |date=October 31–November 6, 1969 |volume=1 |issue=17 |page=4 |accessdate=7 August 2019}}</ref><ref name=Alwood_1996>{{cite book|last=Alwood |first=Edward|title=Straight News: Gays, Lesbians, and the News Media|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|isbn=0-231-08436-6|year=1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wfHq53yNCYC&pg=PA94&num=100&as_brr=0#PPA93,M1|accessdate=January 1, 2008}}</ref>

The peaceful protest against the "[[homophobic]] editorial policies" of the ''Examiner'' turned tumultuous and were later called "Friday of the Purple Hand" and "Bloody Friday of the Purple Hand".<ref name=Alwood_1996 /><ref name=BellVV>{{cite news |last=Bell|first=Arthur |authorlink=Arthur Bell (journalist)|title=Has The Gay Movement Gone Establishment?|work=[[The Village Voice]]|date=28 March 1974|accessdate=January 1, 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wfHq53yNCYC&pg=PA371&num=100&as_brr=0#PPA344,M1}}</ref><ref name=Van_Buskirk>{{cite news|last=Van Buskirk |first=Jim |title=Gay Media Comes of Age |url=http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/san_francisco,2.html |work=[[Bay Area Reporter]] |year=2004 |archivedate=July 5, 2015 |accessdate=2008-01-01 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705201921/http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/san_francisco%2C2.html |df= }}</ref><ref name=Friday>{{cite news|title=Friday of the Purple Hand |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X-s3MQmEQiMC&pg=PA51 |work=San Francisco Free Press|date=November 15–30, 1969 |accessdate=January 1, 2008}} (courtesy: the [[GLBT Historical Society|Gay Lesbian Historical Society]].</ref><ref name=DelMartin>{{cite journal |last1=Martin |first1=Del |title=The Police Beat: Crime in the Streets |url=http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/sfbagals/Vector/1969_Vector_Vol05_No12_Dec.pdf |journal=Vector (San Francisco) |volume=5 |issue=12 |page=9 |date=December 1969 |accessdate=1 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=GayPower>{{cite web |title="Gay Power" Politics |url=http://ebar.com/openforum/opforum.php?sec=guest_op&id=41 |website=GLBTQ, Inc. |date=30 March 2006|accessdate=January 1, 2008}}</ref> Examiner employees "dumped a bag of printers' ink from the third story window of the newspaper building onto the crowd".<ref name=Alwood_1996 /><ref name=Van_Buskirk /> Some reports state that it was a barrel of ink poured from the roof of the building.<ref name=Montanarelli>{{cite book|last1=Montanarelli|first1=Lisa|last2=Harrison|first2==Ann|title=Strange But True San Francisco: Tales of the City by the Bay|year=2005|publisher=Globe Pequot|isbn=0-7627-3681-X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5FqTS3ZCbjgC&num=100&as_brr=0|accessdate=January 1, 2008}}</ref> The protesters "used the ink to scrawl 'Gay Power' and other slogans on the building walls" and stamp purple hand prints "throughout downtown San Francisco" resulting in "one of the most visible demonstrations of gay power".<ref name=Alwood_1996 /><ref name=Van_Buskirk /><ref name=GayPower/> According to Larry LittleJohn, then president of SIR, "At that point, the tactical squad arrived – not to get the employees who dumped the ink, but to arrest the demonstrators. Somebody could have been hurt if that ink had gotten into their eyes, but the police were knocking people to the ground."<ref name=Alwood_1996 /> The accounts of [[police brutality]] include women being thrown to the ground and protesters' teeth being knocked out.<ref name=Alwood_1996 /><ref name=NewspaperSeries>{{cite news|title=Newspaper Series Surprises Activists|work=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|date=24 April 1974|accessdate=January 1, 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0wfHq53yNCYC&pg=PA371&num=100&as_brr=0#PPA344,M1}}</ref> Inspired by [[Black Hand (extortion)|Black Hand]] extortion methods of [[Camorra]] [[gangster]]s and [[the Mafia]],<ref name=Nash>{{cite book|last1=Nash|first1=Jay Robert|title=World Encyclopedia of Organized Crime|date=1993|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|isbn=0-306-80535-9}}</ref> some gay and lesbian activists attempted to institute "purple hand" as a warning to stop anti-gay attacks, but with little success.{{Citation needed|date=June 2019}} In Turkey, the LGBT rights organization MorEl Eskişehir LGBTT Oluşumu (Purple Hand Eskişehir LGBT Formation), also bears the name of this symbol.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://moreleskisehir.blogspot.com |title=MorEl Eskişehir LGBTT Oluşumu |website=Moreleskisehir.blogspot.com |date= |accessdate=January 23, 2012}}</ref>

===Transgender symbol===
A symbol of the female (♀), male (♂) and [[Genderqueer]] (⚨) symbols combined around a circle (⚧) is sometimes used to represent transgender people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gendertalk.com/tg-symbol/|title=Transgender Symbol|last=|first=|date=|website=Gender talk|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://transgendersociety.yolasite.com/history-of-transgender-symbolism.php|title=history of transgender symbolism|last=|first=|date=|website=transgender society|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>

===Unicorns===
[[File:Portland Pride, 2017 - 20.jpg|thumb|left|170px|Unicorn in [[Portland Pride]], 2017]]

Unicorns have been part of pride flags and symbols of LGBT culture in the last century, becoming prominent during the gay rights protests of the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/15/return-of-the-unicorn-the-magical-beast-of-our-times|title=Why the unicorn has become the emblem for our times {{!}} Alice Fisher|last=Fisher|first=Alice|date=2017-10-15|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-08-19}}</ref>

===Violets===
[[File:Viola uliginosa Sturm53.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Viola flower]]

[[Viola (plant)#Cultural associations|Violets]] and their [[Violet (color)#Social movement|color]] became a special code used by lesbians and bisexual women.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Alyson Almanac: A Treasury of Information for the Gay and Lesbian Community|date=1989|publisher=[[Alyson Publications]]|location=Boston, Massachusetts|page=100|chapter=Gay Symbols Through the Ages|isbn=0-932870-19-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Myers|first1=JoAnne|title=The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage (The A to Z Guide Series, No. 73 )|date=2003|publisher=[[The Scarecrow Press]]|location=Lanham, Maryland|page=242|edition=1st|isbn=978-0-8108-6811-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Horak|first1=Laura|title=Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934|date=2016|publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]]|pages=143–144|chapter=Lesbians Take Center Stage: The Captive (1926-1928)|isbn=978-0-8135-7483-7}}</ref> The symbolism of the flower derives from several fragments of poems by [[Sappho]] in which she describes a lover wearing garlands or a crown with violets.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Collecott|first1=Diana|title=H.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910-1950|date=1999|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|location=Cambridge, UK|page=216|edition=1st|isbn=0-521-55078-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Fantham|first1=Elaine|last2=Foley|first2=Helene Peet|last3=Kampen|first3=Natalie Boymel|last4=Pomeroy|first4=Sarah B.|last5=Shapiro|first5=H. A.|title=Women in the Classical World: Image and Text|date=1994|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=New York|page=15|edition=1st|isbn=978-0-19-506727-9}}</ref> In 1926, the play ''[[The Captive (play)|La Prisonnière]]'' by [[Édouard Bourdet]] used a bouquet of violets to signify lesbian love.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cohen-Stratyner|first1=Barbara|title=Violets and Vandamm|url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/01/14/violets-vandamm|website=[[New York Public Library]]|date=January 14, 2014|accessdate=4 October 2018}}</ref> When the play became subject to censorship, many Parisian lesbians wore violets to demonstrate solidarity with its lesbian subject matter.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sova|first1=Dawn B.|title=Banned Plays: Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas|date=2004|publisher=[[Facts On File]]|pages=37–40|edition=1st|isbn=0-8160-4018-4}}</ref>

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==Triangle badges of the Third Reich==
{{Main|Pink triangle|Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust}}

One of the oldest of these symbols is the inverted [[pink triangle]] that male homosexuals in [[Nazi concentration camps]] were required to wear on their clothing. The badge is one of several [[Nazi concentration camp badges|badges]] that internees wore to identify what kind of prisoners they were.<ref name=Plant1988>{{Cite book | last=Plant | first=Richard | year=1988 | title=The pink triangle: the Nazi war against homosexuals | edition=revised | publisher=H. Holt | isbn=978-0-8050-0600-1 | url=https://books.google.com/?id=ZKSbQbEzif8C | page=175 | postscript=. }}</ref> Many of the estimated 5,000–15,000 gay men and lesbians imprisoned in [[concentration camp]]s died during [[the Holocaust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/ |title=Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945 |publisher=Ushmm.org |date= |accessdate=2012-01-23 |deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119045626/http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/ |archivedate=2012-01-19 |df= }}</ref> The pink triangle was later reclaimed by gay men, as well as some lesbians, in various political movements as a symbol of personal pride and remembrance.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShPyCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27#v=onepage&q=pink%20triangle|title=Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory|last=Stier|first=Oren Baruch|date=2015|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=9780813574059|language=en}}</ref><ref name="remember1" /> AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ([[ACT-UP]]) adopted the inverted pink triangle to symbolize the "active fight back" against [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]] "rather than a passive resignation to fate."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSn7026sq_cC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47#v=onepage&q=rather%20than%20a%20passive%20resignation%20to%20fate%20HIV|title=Gayle: The Language of Kinks and Queens : a History and Dictionary of Gay Language in South Africa|last=Cage|first=Ken|last2=Evans|first2=Moyra|date=2003-01-01|publisher=Jacana Media|isbn=9781919931494|language=en}}</ref>

The pink triangle was used exclusively with male prisoners, as lesbians were not included under [[Paragraph 175]], a statute which made homosexual acts between males a crime. The [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)]] stipulates that this was because women were seen as subordinate to men, and the [[Third Reich|Nazi state]] did not feel that homosexual women presented the same threat to masculinity as homosexual men. According to USHMM, many women were arrested and imprisoned for "asocial" behavior, a classification applied to those who did not conform to the [[Nazism|Nazi]] ideal of a woman's role: cooking, cleaning, kitchen work, child raising, and passivity. Asocial women were tagged with an inverted [[Black triangle (badge)|black triangle]].<ref name=USHMM1 /> Many lesbians reclaimed this symbol for themselves as gay men reclaimed the pink triangle.<ref name="remember1"/>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! style="width:33.33%;" | Pink Triangle
! style="width:33.33%;" | Black Triangle
! style="width:33.33%;" | Pink & Yellow Triangles

|-
| [[File:Pink triangle.svg|100px]]
| [[File:Black triangle.svg|100px]]
| [[File:Pink triangle jew.svg|100px]]

|- style="vertical-align: top;"
| The inverted pink triangle used to identify homosexual men in the concentration camps.
| The inverted black triangle used to mark individuals considered "asocial". The category included homosexual women, nonconformists, sex workers, [[nomad]]s, [[Romani people|Romani]], and others.
| The inverted pink triangle overlapping a yellow triangle was used to single out male homosexual prisoners that were [[Jew]]ish.
|}
{{clear}}

==Gallery==
===LGBT pride flags===
These LGBT flags represent the [[LGBT social movements|LGBT movement]] as a whole or different sexualities, gender identities, romantic orientations and/or sex.

{{gallery|mode=nolines|whitebg=y|height=60
|Gay flag.svg|[[Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)|LGBT pride]]
|Agender pride flag.svg|[[Genderqueer#Agender|Agender]]<ref name="Ref29"/>
|Aromantic Flag.svg|[[Aromantic]]<ref name="QueerEvents"/>
|Asexual flag.svg|[[Asexuality#Community|Asexual]]
|Bi flag.svg|[[Bisexual pride flag|Bisexual]]
|Genderfluidity Pride-Flag.svg|[[Genderfluid]]
|Genderqueer flag-pride.svg|[[Genderqueer#Symbols|Genderqueer]]
|Intersex flag.svg|[[Intersex flag|Intersex]]
|Lesbian Pride Flag 2019.svg|[[Lesbian]]<ref name="BBC">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-london-48885240/pride-in-london-what-do-all-the-flags-mean|title=Pride in London: What do all the flags mean?|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=6 July 2019|accessdate=6 July 2019|author=Paul Murphy-Kasp}}</ref>
|Labrys_Lesbian_Flag.svg|Lesbian ([[labrys]] design)<ref name="Ref29"/>
|Nonbinary flag.svg|[[Non-binary]]
|Pansexuality flag.svg|[[Pansexual Pride flag|Pansexual]]
|Polysexuality Pride Flag.svg|[[Polysexuality|Polysexual]]
|Transgender Pride flag.svg|[[Transgender flags#Transgender Pride Flag|Transgender]]
|title=}}

===Subculture flags===
{{gallery|mode=nolines|whitebg=y|height=60
|Bear Brotherhood flag.svg|[[Bear flag (gay culture)|Bear Brotherhood]]
|Leather,_Latex,_and_BDSM_pride_-_Light.svg|[[Leather Pride flag]]
|Lipstick Lesbian flag without lips.svg|[[Lipstick lesbian]]
|Lipstick lesbian flag.svg|Lipstick lesbian {{nowrap|(original design)}}
|title=}}

===Location-based flags===
{{gallery|mode=nolines|whitebg=y|height=60
|Philadelphia Pride Flag.svg|Philadelphia, United States [[Person of color|People of color]] pride flag<ref name=Philadelphia>{{Cite web|last1=Owens|first1=Ernest|url=https://www.phillymag.com/news/2017/06/08/philly-pride-flag-black-brown/|title=Philly's Pride Flag to Get Two New Stripes: Black and Brown|website=[[Philadelphia (magazine)|Philadelphia]]|date=June 8, 2017|accessdate=26 May 2019}}</ref>
|Gay Flag of South Africa.svg|South Africa [[Gay pride flag of South Africa]]<ref name=SoAfrica>{{cite web|last1=Grange|first1=Helen|title=Coming out is risky business|url=https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/love-sex/relationships/coming-out-is-risky-business-1019307|website=[[Independent Online (South Africa)|Independent Online]]|date=31 January 2011|accessdate=4 July 2019}}</ref>
}}

===Other===
<gallery widths="100px">
File:Bi triangles.svg|[[Biangles]] (represents Bisexuality)
File:Bisexual-moon-symbol.svg|[[Bisexuality#Symbols|Double moon]] (represents Bisexuality)
File:Double Venus.svg|[[Gender symbol#Sociology|Double female symbol]] (represents Lesbian women)
File:Double mars symbol.svg|[[Gender symbol#Sociology|Double male symbol]] (represents Gay men)
File:Labrys-symbol.svg|[[Labrys#Social movement|Labrys]] (represents Lesbian feminism)
File:Lambda-letter-lowercase-symbol-Garamond.svg|[[Lambda#Lower-case letter λ|Lambda]] (represents Gay Liberation)
File:Pansexual symbol.PNG|[[Pansexual pride flag|Pansexual symbol]]
File:A TransGender-Symbol black-and-white.svg|[[Transgender flags|Transgender symbol]]
File:A Transfeminist-Symbol black-and-white.svg|[[Trans feminism|Trans feminist symbol]]
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Portal|LGBT|Heraldry and vexillology}}
* [[LGBT slogans]]
* [[White Knot]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|LGBT symbols}}
*[http://www.swade.net/gallery/symbols.html Origin & History of Gay & Lesbian Symbols] shows images of some of these symbols and offers a brief historical account of each.

{{LGBT|culture=expanded}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lgbt Symbols}}
[[Category:Human gender and sexuality symbols]]
[[Category:LGBT symbols]]
[[Category:Lists of symbols|LGBT]]