Indigenous Pride Flags

Flags connected to Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer people and communities. Two-Spirit was introduced in 1990 at the Third Annual Inter-tribal Native American, First Nations, Gay and Lesbian American Conference in Manitoba, where Cree Elder Myra Laramee is widely credited with proposing it. It is a modern pan-Indigenous term used by some Indigenous people. It is not a synonym for LGBTQ+, and not a replacement for the many nation-specific terms, roles, and teachings that exist across Indigenous cultures. Indigiqueer has its own history, coined by TJ Cuthand in 2004. Cuthand uses Indigiqueer to describe Indigenous Queer identity that is not interchangeable with Two-Spirit, which is tied to specific nation-based cultural and spiritual roles. This category keeps those histories distinct and treats each flag’s creator, community, and cultural scope on its own terms.

This database is edited and researched by a non-Indigenous Queer person. If anything is inaccurate or misrepresented, Indigenous contributors are welcomed to correct it and share their knowledge.

Entries in this category (11)

  • Two-Spirit Pride Flag (2005, Zoccole) Designed in 2005 by Anishinawbe Ogokwe activist Art Zoccole for Toronto's 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations, this is the earliest known purpose-built and attributed Two-Spirit pride flag.
  • Two-Spirit Pride Flag (2016 Tumblr documentation) The most widely reproduced Two-Spirit flag: two white black-tipped feathers bound beneath a circle, charged on the standardised six-stripe rainbow field.
  • Two-Spirit Nonbinary Pride Flag (2016 Tumblr documentation) The two-feather-and-circle Two-Spirit emblem charged on Kye Rowan's Nonbinary Pride Flag, one of three base versions that arrived together in a single anonymous Tumblr submission on 17 December 2016.
  • Two-Spirit Pride Flag (2021, sirieko) Five horizontal stripes, white, yellow, green, blue and purple, posted by the Twitter user sirieko on 4 July 2021.
  • Two-Spirit Pride Flag (Patrick Hunter) A Two-Spirit pride flag by Patrick Hunter, a Two-Spirit Ojibwe artist from Red Lake, Ontario, commissioned by the International Day of Pink and unveiled 19 November 2024 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg for the 35th anniversary of the term 'Two-Spirit.' Built from Woodland art vocabulary rather than stripes: two eagle feathers resting on giizis, the sun, amid six bands of pictograph-inspired rainbow dots.
  • Indigiqueer / Two-Spirit Flag (cedar-maw) Posted by the Tumblr user cedar-maw on 9 September 2021, this design places a quartered near-black, cream, yellow, and red circle over a muted Progress Pride layout.
  • Indigiqueer Pride Flag (lvxlvn, 2022) Two flags for Indigiqueer identity published by the Tumblr user lvxlvn on 7 September 2022: five stripes of tan, blue, red, green and brown, one version carrying a white cedar, which lvxlvn chose "to represent us because of its importance to many of our cultures, meaning dreams, prayers, etc…" A third image published with them gives a meaning for every stripe, each pairing a piece of the natural world with a quality and with a part of the community.
  • Two-Spirit Leather Pride Flag The 1989 Leather Pride Flag's nine stripes with its red heart enlarged, moved to the centre, and charged with two bound feathers.
  • Two-Spirit Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag The 2021 Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag carrying the two-feather-and-circle device attributed to the Tumblr user 2Sanon in 2016.
  • Two-Spirit Progress Pride Flag Mitchel Bowers, a Métis Two-Spirit organizer then serving as board chair of Pride YMM, designed this flag in 2022 after noticing that the newer Progress Pride variants carried no overt Two-Spirit representation.
  • Two-Spirit Transgender Pride Flag Monica Helms's Transgender Pride Flag charged with the two-feather-and-circle device credited to the Tumblr user 2Sanon.