Lesbian Pride Flags
The lesbian pride flag has one of the most complex design genealogies in the database. From the labrys symbol of 1999 through the lipstick and pink variants to the contested sunset designs of the late 2010s, this category documents the evolution of lesbian-specific symbols and the community debates that shaped them.
Entries in this category (9)
- Labrys Lesbian Flag A violet flag bearing a white labrys over an inverted black triangle, designed by Sean Patrick Campbell in 1999 and first published in the June 2000 Pride edition of Gay and Lesbian Times (Greater Palm Springs Edition).
- Lipstick Lesbian Flag A seven-stripe flag in a dark-magenta-to-white-to-red gradient with a lipstick kiss mark in the upper-left corner, introduced by Natalie McCray in 2010 through This Lesbian Life.
- Pink Lesbian Flag A seven-stripe pink-to-white-to-red gradient flag without the lipstick emblem, derived from the Lipstick Lesbian Flag by an uncredited community modifier.
- Butch Lesbian Flag (Dorian Rutherford, 2016) A seven-stripe cool-toned gradient flag in blue, white, and purple, designed by Dorian Rutherford in 2016 as a butch lesbian pride flag.
- Butch Lesbian Flag (Butchspace, 2017) A seven-stripe warm-toned flag in reds, oranges, white, yellow-beige, and brown, published on the butchspace Tumblr on June 27, 2017.
- Orange-Pink Lesbian Precursor (2017) A seven-stripe orange-and-pink flag with a white center, posted by Tumblr user shapeshifter-of-constellation on July 3, 2017, nearly a year before the Emily Gwen version that would become the dominant lesbian flag.
- Sunset Lesbian Flag A seven-stripe orange-to-pink gradient flag with a white center stripe, posted by Emily Gwen on Tumblr in June 2018 with an explicit stripe-by-stripe meaning set.
- Five-Stripe Sunset Lesbian Flag The most widely used lesbian pride flag in the world.
- Non-Girl Lesbian Flag A five-stripe flag designed in January 2026 by Ari (u/Valerie_HazbinHotel), a genderfluid lesbian, to represent lesbians who do not identify as female, including nonbinary, gender-expansive, Genderqueer, and genderfluid lesbians.