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em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}{clear:both;ntent:" ";display:block;font-size:0.7rem;le-height:1.5rem;height:0rem;visibily:hidn;}</style><div class="article-body-ntent article-body standard-body-ntent css-z6i669 ewisyje7"><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="0" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Callg all my she's, he's, and they's, 's officially <style data-emotn="css 7qz8rz">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:#f7623b;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:background 0.4s;transn:background 0.4s;background:lear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #feebe7 50%, #feebe7);-webk-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}{lor:#000000;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;-webk-background-posn:100% 100%;background-posn:100% 100%;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Pri Month" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Pri Month</a>! Meang, you're likely gog to start seeg the rabow pri flag beg flown outsi more shop wdows, adorned on t-shirts, and gettg rporated to brand labels and even food packagg.<br /></p><p data-no-id="1" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The prevalence of the rabow pri flag, created by Gilbert Baker, has ma stantly regnizable as a proment emblem of the LGBTQ+ muny. "A te flag is torn om the soul of the people," Baker told <em><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="CBS Chigo" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">CBS Chigo</a></em> 2012. "A flag is somethg that everyone owns and that’s why they work. The Rabow Flag is like other flags that sense, belongs to the people."</p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But though the rabow flag aimed to celebrate the queer muny as a whole, not everyone was reprented. "There is a history wh the queer muny of [that flag] not fully regnizg the needs of people wh different inti," explas <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Chelsea Del R" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Chelsea Del R</a>, PhD, -chair of the Amerin Historil Associatn's Commtee on LGBT History and associate profsor of history at LaGuardia Communy College. Recently, more clive eratns of the inic flag have e to populary, cludg those wh addnal strip to reprent <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the transgenr muny" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">the transgenr muny</a> and people of lor. "There was a need to create flags to dite that the queer muny reflects everybody who claims a queer inty," Del R adds. </p><style data-emotn="css 1xh8gys">{clear:both;lor:#323232;font-fay:Natnal,Natnal-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;le-height:1.5;marg-bottom:1.875rem;marg-top:1.875rem;paddg:1.25rem;text-align:left;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{borr:none;paddg:1.25rem 0 1.25rem 3rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{borr:none;paddg:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{borr:th dashed #969696;paddg:1.25rem 1.25rem 1.25rem 4.5rem;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}{ntent:' ';height:3rem;marg-left:-3.6rem;posn:absolute;width:3rem;} {background:url('/_assets/sign-tokens/womenshealthmag/static/imag/') no-repeat;}</style><p data-no-id="4" class="body-tip css-1xh8gys et3p2gv0"><strong>Meet the Experts: </strong><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Chelsea Del R" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><br />Chelsea Del R</a>, PhD, is an associate profsor of history the Social Science Department and Women, Genr, and Sexualy Studi Optn at CUNY – LaGuardia Communy College. Del R is also the -chair of the Amerin Historil Associatn's Commtee on LGBT History, the creator and ordator of Lavenr LaGuardia, the llege's LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff group, and the -ordator of Clic Esrts for NYC. <br /><br /><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Carole Rasky" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>Carole Rasky</u></a>, PhD, is a visg assistant profsor of history at the Universy of Iowa, teachg urs Amerin history, queer history, transnatnal sexuali, women's and genr history, and femist history. Rasky is also the review edor for the Amerin Historil Associatn's Commtee on LGBT History.</p><p data-no-id="5" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Still, that don't mean LGBTQ+ pri flags start and end at the many variatns of the rabow one. </p><p data-no-id="6" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Thanks to the age of the ter, flags celebratg specific muni of queer people have e to populary throughout the ghts, cludg those honorg transgenr, asexual, bisexual, genrqueer, and pansexual people, says Del R. The lbian muny is no exceptn— fact, there have been multiple eratns of lbian pri flags created. Let's explore them. <br /></p><style data-emotn="css 1le5u">{font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;marg-top:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.1875rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.5rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="7" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">What is the most mon lbian pri flag? </h2><p data-no-id="8" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">A quick onle search of "lbian flag" will likely brg up imag of what's known as the "lipstick lbian flag" ("lipstick" referrg to lbians who prent as tradnally feme). Like the rabow pri flag, 's striped, but stead of an assortment of lors, featur var shas of pk and purple. Sometim, featur a lipstick imprt the upper left rner. </p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="9" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="lipstick lbian flag whout lips" tle="lipstick lbian flag whout lips" loadg="lazy" width="5000" height="3353" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css 14g1weo">{width:0;m-width:100%;paddg-top:0.625rem;font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.4;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><div class="css-14g1weo e1xqj1sx1">The "lipstick lbian" flag whout lips. </div><style data-emotn="css 1am3yn9">{paddg-left:0rem;le-height:1;}</style><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-syga5w e6iqd2">Ecelop</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">"The lipstick lbian flag me to be 2010," says Del R. While 's among the most regnizable of the lbian pri flags, still isn't wily ed. "The ncern was that only reprents femme-prentg lbians," she explas. Bee the lors were drawn om shas of lipstick whout any other notable signifince to the muny, many were ncerned about excludg butch, non-femme, and androgyno lbians. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="11" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1hw4k0n">{borr:none;marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;paddg:1.25rem;paddg-left:0;paddg-right:0;}</style><asi class="css-1hw4k0n e6pr2lz5"><style data-emotn="css 1mputyi">{display:block;font-weight:bold;marg:0rem;font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem;le-height:1.1;text-transform:upperse;}</style><h6 class="css-1mputyi e6pr2lz3"><style data-emotn="css 10432as">{background-repeat:no-repeat;-webk-background-size:0.8rem;background-size:0.8rem;ntent:'';display:le-block;height:0.8rem;marg-right:0.625rem;width:0.8rem;} {background:url('/_assets/sign-tokens/womenshealthmag/static/imag/');}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-10432as eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 8lle59">{max-width:lc(100% - 120px - .625rem);}</style><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Story</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><style data-emotn="css c4s2gi">{paddg:0rem;marg:0rem;list-style:none;}</style><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><style data-emotn="css 19jk6ky">{paddg-top:1.25rem;borr-bottom:th solid #969696;font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;le-height:1.2;paddg-bottom:0.5rem;} a{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#595959;}</style><li class="css-19jk6ky e6pr2lz2"><style data-emotn="css 1bn7a5e">{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-directn:row;-ms-flex-directn:row;flex-directn:row;-webk-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webk-jtify-ntent:flex-start;jtify-ntent:flex-start;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;}</style><a href="/relatnships/a36395721/genr-inty-list/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="14 Common Genr Inty Terms, Per Experts" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 1l0u1">{marg-right:0.625rem;height:to;}</style><img src="" alt="rabow pri flag sneakers" tle="Rabow pri flag sneakers" width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">14 Common Genr Inty Terms, Per Experts</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><p data-no-id="12" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">"The term 'lipstick lbian' self rried a lot of baggage," says <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Carole Rasky" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>Carole Rasky</u></a>, PhD, review edor of the Amerin Historil Associatn's Commtee on LBGT History and visg assistant profsor of history at the Universy of Iowa. "Many trace the term back to the 1980s porn dtry that ed that term to sell pornography of women havg sex wh other women to heterosexual men. At the same time, some lbians reclaimed that term, particularly the 1990s and early 2000s, as a way to ph back on the assumptn that all lbians are tradnally more mascule."</p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The lipstick lbian flag first appeared on a blog, promptg addnal ncerns about the creator's polil views, not Del R. "I've seen referenc to problematic and ncerng statements that the creator had ma," she says, referrg to reports of biphobic and racist ments <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the creator posted onle" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">the creator posted onle</a> and has sce leted.<strong> </strong>"There is enough ncern about the posn of the creator to knock [this flag] out of ntentn to be <em>the </em>lbian flag—wh or whout the lips on ."<em></em></p><h2 data-no-id="14" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">Were chang ma to the 'lipstick lbian flag'?</h2><p data-no-id="15" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In an effort to be more clive, the pk and purple flag got a resign 2018. Usg the lipstick lbian flag as a startg pot, the updated versn clus shas of orange. "The creator [of this flag], [<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Ey Gwen" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Ey Gwen</a>], gave each stripe a specific meang," too, says Del R.</p><h2 data-no-id="16" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">What are the lors of the lbian pri flag?</h2><p data-no-id="17" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The 2018 resign of the lbian pri flag or "Orange-Pk" Lbian Flag—which, acrdg to Del R, is likely the most morn take on the flag—has seven strip a range of orange and pk hu. Moreover, each stripe has s own unique meang. Per Gwen, the creator of the updated lbian pri flag, the stripe lors reprent: </p><style data-emotn="css 1rk79nl">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;marg:0.9375rem 0 0 0.625rem;paddg:0 0 0 1.25rem;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg:0.9375rem 0;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;} li{paddg-bottom:0.625rem;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} li::marker{lor:#323232;}</style><ul data-no-id="18" class="css-1rk79nl et3p2gv0"><li><strong>Red:</strong> genr non-nformy</li><li><strong>Dark orange:</strong> pennce</li><li><strong>Light orange:</strong> muny</li><li><strong>Whe:</strong> unique relatnships to womanhood</li><li><strong>Pk:</strong> sereny and peace</li><li><strong>Mve:</strong> love and sex</li><li><strong>Magenta:</strong> femy </li></ul><style data-emotn="css 1m81y1o">@media(max-width: 30rem){{m-height:209px;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{m-height:225px;}}{ntent:"";clear:both;display:table;}</style><div data-embed="twter" data-no-id="19" class="embed align-center css-1m81y1o e1dhx11l2"><style data-emotn="css 8c6v">{posn:absolute;left:-10000px;top:to;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidn;}</style><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om twter. 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The lbian muni I'm a part of mean so much to me. <a href="></a></p>— Ey Gwen (@theeygwen) <a href=">June 3, 2020</a></blockquote></div><style data-emotn="css 47ss7b">{grid-lumn:1;grid-row:1;}@media(max-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;max-width:lc(100vw - (1rem * 2));}}</style><div data-width="550px" class="css-47ss7b e14n76iz0"><blockquote data-align="center" data-nversatn><a href=" class="twter-timele"> </a></blockquote></div></div></div><h2 data-no-id="20" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0"><strong>What is the blue versn of the lbian pri flag?</strong></h2><p data-no-id="21" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In 2016, yet another lbian pri flag was created—the "<a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="butch lbian pri flag" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>butch lbian pri flag</u></a>." Instead of pk and purple hu, the butch lbian pri flag purpl (reprentg lbians or women lovg women), blu (reprentg masculy), and whe (reprentg people across the genr and sexualy spectms).</p><p data-no-id="22" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">"The blue flag was signed by a Tumblr er named dorian--therford," says Rasky. Both the origal post and dorian--therford’s blog appear to have been leted, however, the butch lbian pri flag ntu to be ed by many butch and non-femme intifyg lbians as a symbol of reprentatn. "I thk a lot of people unrstood as a reactn to the lipstick lbian flag bee some butch folks didn’t feel reprented that flag," explas Rasky.</p><div data-embed="twter" data-no-id="23" class="embed align-center css-1m81y1o e1dhx11l2"><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om twter. 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Addnal meang unknown. <a href="></a></p>— Majtic Ms Dign (@MajticMs) <a href=">June 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div><div data-width="550px" class="css-47ss7b e14n76iz0"><blockquote data-align="center" data-nversatn><a href=" class="twter-timele"> </a></blockquote></div></div></div><p data-no-id="24" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">A year later, 2017, a <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="send butch lbian pri flag" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>send butch lbian pri flag</u></a> me about, created by a morator, Jim, of the Tumblr page <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="butchspace" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>butchspace</u></a>. This flag mov away om the blu and purpl displayed the origal butch pri flag, stead g reds, orang, and browns to reprent butch, non-femme, and androgyno lbians. Each of the lors has an assigned meang, acrdg to <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="a Tumblr post" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>a Tumblr post</u></a> by the creator:</p><ul data-no-id="25" class="css-1rk79nl et3p2gv0"><li><strong>Red:</strong> passn and sexualy </li><li><strong>Red-orange:</strong> urage</li><li><strong>Light orange: </strong>joy</li><li><strong>Whe:</strong> renewal</li><li><strong>Beige:</strong> chivalry</li><li><strong>Orange: </strong>warmth</li><li><strong>Brown:</strong> honty </li></ul><p data-no-id="26" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Unlike the lipstick lbian flag, there hasn’t been much ntroversy around the butch lbian flag, neher the blue or orange versns, Rasky says. "I don’t see a lot of people discsg the flag beg problematic," she not. "While, historilly, the butch inty has been criqued some circl, often by TERFs [trans-exclnary radil femists], there’s nothg regards to the flag that I uld fd."</p><h2 data-no-id="27" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">Which is the first lbian pri flag?</h2><p data-no-id="28" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Created 1999 by Sean Campbell, a cisgenr gay man, the Labrys Lbian Pri Flag is monly referred to as the olst lbian flag. "My unrstandg is he was puttg together a seri of flags to reprent different muni," says Del R. </p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Though the creator wasn't a lbian, the flag's symbolism is rooted lbian history and referenced signifint lbian imagery. The labrys is ont and center sce, the 1970s, was a popular lbian femist symbol. The upsi down black triangle, which serv as a backdrop for the labrys, reprents the Holot and the triangl Nazis ed to mark lbians ncentratn mps. </p><p data-no-id="30" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">And then there’s the lor purple "reprentg Sappho [<a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="an ancient Greek poet" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>an ancient Greek poet</u></a> om the island of Lbos whose name spired the terms 'sapphic' and 'lbian'] and women lovg women," explas Rasky. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="31" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="labrys lbian pri flag, lgbt symbol isolated on whe background" tle="Flag, rectangular shape in on whe background" loadg="lazy" width="5000" height="3353" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-syga5w e6iqd2">Ecelop</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="32" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The ncerns raised wh this flag, explas Del R, is that was created by a man, and "there's been ristance g imagery that is rooted the Holot, and there's also a ncern about that flag beg ed by trans-exclnary lbians or trans-exclnary femists." </p><p data-no-id="33" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But Del R pots out that this last ncern might not be rooted fact. It speaks to the stereotype that lbian femists of the '70s were uniformly exclnary when me to transgenr women. "That is not, fact, the se," she says. "Some were, but some were clive of trans women." </p><h2 data-no-id="34" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">Why isn't the lbian flag as popular as the rabow pri or transgenr flags? </h2><p data-no-id="35" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">"There seems to be a ncern wh cln," says Del R. In nversatns, she has learned a number of people prefer the <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Progrs Flag" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Progrs Flag</a>, another revisn of the rabow pri flag signed by Daniel Quasar 2018. It clus whe, pk, and light blue honor of trans folks and brown and black for people of lor and those lost to AIDS. </p><div data-embed="twter" data-no-id="36" class="embed align-center css-1m81y1o e1dhx11l2"><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om twter. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web se.</div><div class="css-ky2lhl e14n76iz1"><div class="css-44bwek e1v57j5l0"><blockquote class="twter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href=">#PriMonth</a> starts today. The flag below is the Progrs Pri Flag, signed by Daniel Quasar 2018 that explicly clus Black, Brown & Trans lours. Whout those groups, we wouldn’t have Pri today <a href="></a> <a href="></a></p>— LGBTQ+ STEM (@LGBTSTEM) <a href=">June 1, 2020</a></blockquote></div><div data-width="550px" class="css-47ss7b e14n76iz0"><blockquote data-align="center" data-nversatn><a href=" class="twter-timele"> </a></blockquote></div></div></div><p data-no-id="37" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">"There were other ncerns raised about flags reprentg natnalism; there were ncerns about havg standardized flags and beg able to modify lbian pri. Others were jt unaware entirely of the flags," Del R adds. The lack of a strong pull to adopt a lbian flag, she says, vari.</p><p data-no-id="38" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><em>Want to learn more about LGBTQ+ Pri Month? 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Meang, you're likely gog to start seeg the rabow pri flag beg flown outsi more shop wdows, adorned on t-shirts, and gettg rporated to brand labels and even food packagg.<br /></p><p data-no-id="1" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The prevalence of the rabow pri flag, created by Gilbert Baker, has ma stantly regnizable as a proment emblem of the LGBTQ+ muny. "A te flag is torn om the soul of the people," Baker told <em><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="CBS Chigo" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">CBS Chigo</a></em> 2012. "A flag is somethg that everyone owns and that’s why they work. The Rabow Flag is like other flags that sense, belongs to the people."</p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But though the rabow flag aimed to celebrate the queer muny as a whole, not everyone was reprented. "There is a history wh the queer muny of [that flag] not fully regnizg the needs of people wh different inti," explas <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Chelsea Del R" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Chelsea Del R</a>, PhD, -chair of the Amerin Historil Associatn's Commtee on LGBT History and associate profsor of history at LaGuardia Communy College. Recently, more clive eratns of the inic flag have e to populary, cludg those wh addnal strip to reprent <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the transgenr muny" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">the transgenr muny</a> and people of lor. "There was a need to create flags to dite that the queer muny reflects everybody who claims a queer inty," Del R adds. </p><style data-emotn="css 1xh8gys">{clear:both;lor:#323232;font-fay:Natnal,Natnal-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;le-height:1.5;marg-bottom:1.875rem;marg-top:1.875rem;paddg:1.25rem;text-align:left;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{borr:none;paddg:1.25rem 0 1.25rem 3rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{borr:none;paddg:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{borr:th dashed #969696;paddg:1.25rem 1.25rem 1.25rem 4.5rem;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}{ntent:' ';height:3rem;marg-left:-3.6rem;posn:absolute;width:3rem;} {background:url('/_assets/sign-tokens/womenshealthmag/static/imag/') no-repeat;}</style><p data-no-id="4" class="body-tip css-1xh8gys et3p2gv0"><strong>Meet the Experts: </strong><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Chelsea Del R" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><br />Chelsea Del R</a>, PhD, is an associate profsor of history the Social Science Department and Women, Genr, and Sexualy Studi Optn at CUNY – LaGuardia Communy College. Del R is also the -chair of the Amerin Historil Associatn's Commtee on LGBT History, the creator and ordator of Lavenr LaGuardia, the llege's LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff group, and the -ordator of Clic Esrts for NYC. <br /><br /><a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Carole Rasky" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>Carole Rasky</u></a>, PhD, is a visg assistant profsor of history at the Universy of Iowa, teachg urs Amerin history, queer history, transnatnal sexuali, women's and genr history, and femist history. Rasky is also the review edor for the Amerin Historil Associatn's Commtee on LGBT History.</p><p data-no-id="5" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Still, that don't mean LGBTQ+ pri flags start and end at the many variatns of the rabow one. </p><p data-no-id="6" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Thanks to the age of the ter, flags celebratg specific muni of queer people have e to populary throughout the ghts, cludg those honorg transgenr, asexual, bisexual, genrqueer, and pansexual people, says Del R. The lbian muny is no exceptn— fact, there have been multiple eratns of lbian pri flags created. Let's explore them. <br /></p><style data-emotn="css 1le5u">{font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;marg-top:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.1875rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:2.375rem;le-height:1.1;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:2.5rem;le-height:1.1;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><h2 data-no-id="7" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">What is the most mon lbian pri flag? </h2><p data-no-id="8" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">A quick onle search of "lbian flag" will likely brg up imag of what's known as the "lipstick lbian flag" ("lipstick" referrg to lbians who prent as tradnally feme). Like the rabow pri flag, 's striped, but stead of an assortment of lors, featur var shas of pk and purple. Sometim, featur a lipstick imprt the upper left rner. </p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="9" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="lipstick lbian flag whout lips" tle="lipstick lbian flag whout lips" loadg="lazy" width="5000" height="3353" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css 14g1weo">{width:0;m-width:100%;paddg-top:0.625rem;font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.4;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><div class="css-14g1weo e1xqj1sx1">The "lipstick lbian" flag whout lips. </div><style data-emotn="css 1am3yn9">{paddg-left:0rem;le-height:1;}</style><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-syga5w e6iqd2">Ecelop</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="10" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">"The lipstick lbian flag me to be 2010," says Del R. While 's among the most regnizable of the lbian pri flags, still isn't wily ed. "The ncern was that only reprents femme-prentg lbians," she explas. Bee the lors were drawn om shas of lipstick whout any other notable signifince to the muny, many were ncerned about excludg butch, non-femme, and androgyno lbians. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="11" data-embed="edorial-lk" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1hw4k0n">{borr:none;marg-top:1.875rem;marg-bottom:1.875rem;paddg:1.25rem;paddg-left:0;paddg-right:0;}</style><asi class="css-1hw4k0n e6pr2lz5"><style data-emotn="css 1mputyi">{display:block;font-weight:bold;marg:0rem;font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.25rem;le-height:1.1;text-transform:upperse;}</style><h6 class="css-1mputyi e6pr2lz3"><style data-emotn="css 10432as">{background-repeat:no-repeat;-webk-background-size:0.8rem;background-size:0.8rem;ntent:'';display:le-block;height:0.8rem;marg-right:0.625rem;width:0.8rem;} {background:url('/_assets/sign-tokens/womenshealthmag/static/imag/');}</style><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-10432as eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 8lle59">{max-width:lc(100% - 120px - .625rem);}</style><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">Related Story</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h6><style data-emotn="css c4s2gi">{paddg:0rem;marg:0rem;list-style:none;}</style><ul class="css-c4s2gi e6pr2lz4"><style data-emotn="css 19jk6ky">{paddg-top:1.25rem;borr-bottom:th solid #969696;font-fay:NatnalBold,NatnalBold-fallback,Helveti,Arial,Sans-serif;le-height:1.2;paddg-bottom:0.5rem;} a{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#595959;}</style><li class="css-19jk6ky e6pr2lz2"><style data-emotn="css 1bn7a5e">{-webk-text-ratn:none;text-ratn:none;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webk-box-flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-wrap:wrap;-ms-flex-wrap:wrap;flex-wrap:wrap;-webk-flex-directn:row;-ms-flex-directn:row;flex-directn:row;-webk-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webk-jtify-ntent:flex-start;jtify-ntent:flex-start;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;}</style><a href="/relatnships/a36395721/genr-inty-list/" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="14 Common Genr Inty Terms, Per Experts" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Edorial Lks" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" class="css-1bn7a5e e1c1bym14"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 1l0u1">{marg-right:0.625rem;height:to;}</style><img src="" alt="rabow pri flag sneakers" tle="Rabow pri flag sneakers" width="120" height="100%" dg="async" loadg="lazy" image-align="left" class="css-1l0u1 e6pr2lz0" /><span class="css-8lle59 e6pr2lz1">14 Common Genr Inty Terms, Per Experts</span><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></a></li></ul></asi></div><p data-no-id="12" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">"The term 'lipstick lbian' self rried a lot of baggage," says <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Carole Rasky" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>Carole Rasky</u></a>, PhD, review edor of the Amerin Historil Associatn's Commtee on LBGT History and visg assistant profsor of history at the Universy of Iowa. "Many trace the term back to the 1980s porn dtry that ed that term to sell pornography of women havg sex wh other women to heterosexual men. At the same time, some lbians reclaimed that term, particularly the 1990s and early 2000s, as a way to ph back on the assumptn that all lbians are tradnally more mascule."</p><p data-no-id="13" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The lipstick lbian flag first appeared on a blog, promptg addnal ncerns about the creator's polil views, not Del R. "I've seen referenc to problematic and ncerng statements that the creator had ma," she says, referrg to reports of biphobic and racist ments <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="the creator posted onle" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">the creator posted onle</a> and has sce leted.<strong> </strong>"There is enough ncern about the posn of the creator to knock [this flag] out of ntentn to be <em>the </em>lbian flag—wh or whout the lips on ."<em></em></p><h2 data-no-id="14" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">Were chang ma to the 'lipstick lbian flag'?</h2><p data-no-id="15" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In an effort to be more clive, the pk and purple flag got a resign 2018. Usg the lipstick lbian flag as a startg pot, the updated versn clus shas of orange. "The creator [of this flag], [<a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Ey Gwen" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Ey Gwen</a>], gave each stripe a specific meang," too, says Del R.</p><h2 data-no-id="16" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">What are the lors of the lbian pri flag?</h2><p data-no-id="17" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The 2018 resign of the lbian pri flag or "Orange-Pk" Lbian Flag—which, acrdg to Del R, is likely the most morn take on the flag—has seven strip a range of orange and pk hu. Moreover, each stripe has s own unique meang. Per Gwen, the creator of the updated lbian pri flag, the stripe lors reprent: </p><style data-emotn="css 1rk79nl">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;marg:0.9375rem 0 0 0.625rem;paddg:0 0 0 1.25rem;}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg:0.9375rem 0;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;} li{paddg-bottom:0.625rem;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;} li::marker{lor:#323232;}</style><ul data-no-id="18" class="css-1rk79nl et3p2gv0"><li><strong>Red:</strong> genr non-nformy</li><li><strong>Dark orange:</strong> pennce</li><li><strong>Light orange:</strong> muny</li><li><strong>Whe:</strong> unique relatnships to womanhood</li><li><strong>Pk:</strong> sereny and peace</li><li><strong>Mve:</strong> love and sex</li><li><strong>Magenta:</strong> femy </li></ul><style data-emotn="css 1m81y1o">@media(max-width: 30rem){{m-height:209px;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{m-height:225px;}}{ntent:"";clear:both;display:table;}</style><div data-embed="twter" data-no-id="19" class="embed align-center css-1m81y1o e1dhx11l2"><style data-emotn="css 8c6v">{posn:absolute;left:-10000px;top:to;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidn;}</style><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om twter. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web se.</div><div class="css-ky2lhl e14n76iz1"><style data-emotn="css 44bwek">{grid-lumn:1;grid-row:1;z-x:-1;}@media(max-width: 30rem){{font-size:1.1rem;le-height:1.4rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{max-width:550px;}}</style><div class="css-44bwek e1v57j5l0"><blockquote class="twter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As of today 's been 2 years sce I first signed the orange and pk lbian flag. Thank you so much for all the love I've been shown sce then. The lbian muni I'm a part of mean so much to me. <a href="></a></p>— Ey Gwen (@theeygwen) <a href=">June 3, 2020</a></blockquote></div><style data-emotn="css 47ss7b">{grid-lumn:1;grid-row:1;}@media(max-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;max-width:lc(100vw - (1rem * 2));}}</style><div data-width="550px" class="css-47ss7b e14n76iz0"><blockquote data-align="center" data-nversatn><a href=" class="twter-timele"> </a></blockquote></div></div></div><h2 data-no-id="20" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0"><strong>What is the blue versn of the lbian pri flag?</strong></h2><p data-no-id="21" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">In 2016, yet another lbian pri flag was created—the "<a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="butch lbian pri flag" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>butch lbian pri flag</u></a>." Instead of pk and purple hu, the butch lbian pri flag purpl (reprentg lbians or women lovg women), blu (reprentg masculy), and whe (reprentg people across the genr and sexualy spectms).</p><p data-no-id="22" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">"The blue flag was signed by a Tumblr er named dorian--therford," says Rasky. Both the origal post and dorian--therford’s blog appear to have been leted, however, the butch lbian pri flag ntu to be ed by many butch and non-femme intifyg lbians as a symbol of reprentatn. "I thk a lot of people unrstood as a reactn to the lipstick lbian flag bee some butch folks didn’t feel reprented that flag," explas Rasky.</p><div data-embed="twter" data-no-id="23" class="embed align-center css-1m81y1o e1dhx11l2"><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om twter. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web se.</div><div class="css-ky2lhl e14n76iz1"><div class="css-44bwek e1v57j5l0"><blockquote class="twter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href=">#Butch</a> Lbian (dorian–therford)<br />Created by dorian–therford sometime prr to 2016-08-24. Unveiled on Tumblr, blog sce leted.<br />Butch lbian flag. Addnal meang unknown. <a href="></a></p>— Majtic Ms Dign (@MajticMs) <a href=">June 13, 2019</a></blockquote></div><div data-width="550px" class="css-47ss7b e14n76iz0"><blockquote data-align="center" data-nversatn><a href=" class="twter-timele"> </a></blockquote></div></div></div><p data-no-id="24" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">A year later, 2017, a <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="send butch lbian pri flag" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>send butch lbian pri flag</u></a> me about, created by a morator, Jim, of the Tumblr page <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="butchspace" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>butchspace</u></a>. This flag mov away om the blu and purpl displayed the origal butch pri flag, stead g reds, orang, and browns to reprent butch, non-femme, and androgyno lbians. Each of the lors has an assigned meang, acrdg to <a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="a Tumblr post" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>a Tumblr post</u></a> by the creator:</p><ul data-no-id="25" class="css-1rk79nl et3p2gv0"><li><strong>Red:</strong> passn and sexualy </li><li><strong>Red-orange:</strong> urage</li><li><strong>Light orange: </strong>joy</li><li><strong>Whe:</strong> renewal</li><li><strong>Beige:</strong> chivalry</li><li><strong>Orange: </strong>warmth</li><li><strong>Brown:</strong> honty </li></ul><p data-no-id="26" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Unlike the lipstick lbian flag, there hasn’t been much ntroversy around the butch lbian flag, neher the blue or orange versns, Rasky says. "I don’t see a lot of people discsg the flag beg problematic," she not. "While, historilly, the butch inty has been criqued some circl, often by TERFs [trans-exclnary radil femists], there’s nothg regards to the flag that I uld fd."</p><h2 data-no-id="27" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">Which is the first lbian pri flag?</h2><p data-no-id="28" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Created 1999 by Sean Campbell, a cisgenr gay man, the Labrys Lbian Pri Flag is monly referred to as the olst lbian flag. "My unrstandg is he was puttg together a seri of flags to reprent different muni," says Del R. </p><p data-no-id="29" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">Though the creator wasn't a lbian, the flag's symbolism is rooted lbian history and referenced signifint lbian imagery. The labrys is ont and center sce, the 1970s, was a popular lbian femist symbol. The upsi down black triangle, which serv as a backdrop for the labrys, reprents the Holot and the triangl Nazis ed to mark lbians ncentratn mps. </p><p data-no-id="30" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">And then there’s the lor purple "reprentg Sappho [<a href=" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="an ancient Greek poet" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0"><u>an ancient Greek poet</u></a> om the island of Lbos whose name spired the terms 'sapphic' and 'lbian'] and women lovg women," explas Rasky. </p><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="31" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="labrys lbian pri flag, lgbt symbol isolated on whe background" tle="Flag, rectangular shape in on whe background" loadg="lazy" width="5000" height="3353" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-syga5w e6iqd2">Ecelop</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="32" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">The ncerns raised wh this flag, explas Del R, is that was created by a man, and "there's been ristance g imagery that is rooted the Holot, and there's also a ncern about that flag beg ed by trans-exclnary lbians or trans-exclnary femists." </p><p data-no-id="33" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">But Del R pots out that this last ncern might not be rooted fact. It speaks to the stereotype that lbian femists of the '70s were uniformly exclnary when me to transgenr women. "That is not, fact, the se," she says. "Some were, but some were clive of trans women." </p><h2 data-no-id="34" class="body-h2 css-1le5u et3p2gv0">Why isn't the lbian flag as popular as the rabow pri or transgenr flags? </h2><p data-no-id="35" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">"There seems to be a ncern wh cln," says Del R. In nversatns, she has learned a number of people prefer the <a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Progrs Flag" class="body-lk css-7qz8rz et3p2gv0">Progrs Flag</a>, another revisn of the rabow pri flag signed by Daniel Quasar 2018. It clus whe, pk, and light blue honor of trans folks and brown and black for people of lor and those lost to AIDS. </p><div data-embed="twter" data-no-id="36" class="embed align-center css-1m81y1o e1dhx11l2"><div data-ad-exclu class="css-8c6v ehha8ut0">This ntent is imported om twter. You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web se.</div><div class="css-ky2lhl e14n76iz1"><div class="css-44bwek e1v57j5l0"><blockquote class="twter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href=">#PriMonth</a> starts today. The flag below is the Progrs Pri Flag, signed by Daniel Quasar 2018 that explicly clus Black, Brown & Trans lours. Whout those groups, we wouldn’t have Pri today <a href="></a> <a href="></a></p>— LGBTQ+ STEM (@LGBTSTEM) <a href=">June 1, 2020</a></blockquote></div><div data-width="550px" class="css-47ss7b e14n76iz0"><blockquote data-align="center" data-nversatn><a href=" class="twter-timele"> </a></blockquote></div></div></div><p data-no-id="37" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">"There were other ncerns raised about flags reprentg natnalism; there were ncerns about havg standardized flags and beg able to modify lbian pri. Others were jt unaware entirely of the flags," Del R adds. The lack of a strong pull to adopt a lbian flag, she says, vari.</p><p data-no-id="38" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0"><em>Want to learn more about LGBTQ+ Pri Month? 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