Subculture Pride Flags

Flags from subcultures including leather, rubber, bear, and related communities. These communities are deeply entangled with LGBTQ+ history, but they are not reducible to sexual orientation or gender identity. They can form around shared practices, aesthetics, erotic cultures, and social spaces, and many include people across orientations and identities. This category treats subcultural belonging as an identity that can necessitate Pride symbols in its own right.

Entries in this category (38)

  • Leather Pride Flag A nine-stripe horizontal flag alternating black and royal blue around a central white stripe, with a tilted red heart in the canton.
  • International Bear Brotherhood Flag A seven-stripe horizontal flag in bear-fur tones with a black bear paw print in the canton.
  • Rubber Pride Flag A flag for the rubber and latex fetish community, attributed to Peter Tolos and Scott Moats and dated to 1994 in the earliest located sources, though several later guides give 1995.
  • Feather Pride Flag A gold phoenix over a red, black, and white patterned field, designed by Sean Patrick Campbell and first published in the June 2000 Pride edition of Gay and Lesbian Times (Greater Palm Springs Edition).
  • Drag Pride Flag (2016, Veranda L’Ni) Cleveland drag performer Veranda L’Ni designed this purple, white and blue flag for a worldwide contest run by the Austin International Drag Foundation.
  • Puppy Pride Flag The Leather Pride Flag's nine black, blue and white stripes turned to a 30 degree diagonal, its red heart replaced by a red bone, and its central white stripe widened for the breadth of the puppy community.
  • Leather Girl Pride Flag sheryl dee's 2003 variant of Tony DeBlase's Leather Pride Flag replaces its royal-blue stripes with pink "to represent female leather-lovers." Designed for the November 2003 Ms San Diego Leather contest while dee held both that title and American Leatherwoman, the design remains commercially manufactured.
  • Otter Pride Flag (2018, toadhops) Published by DeviantArt user toadhops on 5 June 2018, this Otter Pride Flag uses five horizontal bands of blue, white, and gray with a black paw print.
  • Otter Pride Flag (2021, Bearback) Bearback published this separate six-stripe Otter Pride Flag in 2021 after a vote among its community, which the company calls its "tribe".
  • Alt. Hunk Flag (2024, isobug) A hunk flag made to stand on its own rather than as an inversion of the twink flag, published by the Tumblr flag-maker isobug at 03:10 UTC on 30 June 2024.
  • BDSM Rights Flag (2005, Tanos) Tanos's flag sets a red-and-white BDSM triskelion on the nine black, blue and white stripes of Tony DeBlase's Leather Pride Flag.
  • Behr Pride Flag Sean Patrick Campbell's bear-community flag of 1995: nine horizontal bands in five colors, symmetric about a white center, with a stylized black paw at the upper hoist.
  • Cannabis Rainbow Flag (United States format) A rainbow flag in the format of the United States flag, with a cannabis leaf where the stars would be and rows of small leaves where the white stripes would be.
  • Chav Pride Flag A camel-ground check in the Burberry pattern, listed by one flag guide as the Chav Fetish Pride Flag and reported there as first seen at London Pride in 2008, without a photograph, a designer or a source.
  • Chicago Bear Pride The International Bear Brotherhood Flag crossed with the flag of Chicago, one of PrideFlags.com’s Chicago series: a vertical bar at the hoist stacks the bear flag’s seven colours, the orange-rust and grey run rightward as bars in the municipal positions, and four black bear paw prints take the four stars’ places.
  • Chicago Leather Pride The Leather Pride Flag crossed with the flag of Chicago, one of PrideFlags.com’s Chicago series: the white field survives, the bar positions carry the leather flag’s blue and black striping, and four red hearts take the four stars’ places.
  • Chicago Puppy Pride The Puppy Pride Flag crossed with the flag of Chicago, one of PrideFlags.com’s Chicago series: the white field survives, the bar positions carry the puppy flag’s blue and black striping, and four red bones take the four stars’ places.
  • Chicago Rubber Pride The Rubber Pride Flag crossed with the flag of Chicago, one of PrideFlags.com’s Chicago series: the white field survives, both bars turn rubber red with a black, yellow and red stack at the hoist, and the four stars alternate the rubber flag’s three colours.
  • Chicago Uniform Pride PrideFlags.com’s Uniform Pride design crossed with the flag of Chicago, in the seller’s Chicago series: the white field survives, the bars carry the uniform design’s black, greens and olive, and the four stars take those colours, each charged with a gold laurel wreath.
  • Drag King Pride Flag (2018, SilenceTheFox) DeviantArt user SilenceTheFox published this Drag King Pride Flag on June 8, 2018.
  • Fetish Pride Flag Designed in 2019 by David Jatko, a Swedish fetish-rights advocate who describes himself as a proud fetishist, as a symbol for fetishists of every kind rather than for one fetish.
  • Foot Fetish Pride Flag (2020, Fetishie) The nine bands of the Leather Pride Flag’s structure charged with a pair of red footprints outlined in black.
  • Foot Fetish Pride Flag A black flag of unusual 1:3 proportion, crossed by one blue stripe, with a white heart at the hoist and ten red stars along the bottom.
  • Freak Pride Flag GayFetishGoth attributes the Freak Pride Flag to Mitchel McAllister in 2004 and says it debuted on the defunct Freak Farm website, made to unite people associated with body modification, unconventional appearance and fetish wear.
  • Furry Pride Flag (2019, FursonaPins) A three-stripe flag with a centered rainbow circle and paw print, designed by FursonaPins in June 2019 as a Queer-inclusive symbol for the furry fandom.
  • Hunk Flag (2020, disneyfan1413) The first hunk flag, posted to the subreddit r/QueerVexillology by the Reddit user disneyfan1413 on 4 June 2020 with the words "I've seen twink and twunk flags but I haven't seen a hunk flag.
  • Leather Woman Pride Flag A purple recolor of the nine-stripe Leather Pride Flag, keeping the red heart "touching all 3 colors, as original." Tori Jones, a bootblack and leather artisan, designed it in June 2016, choosing purple as "a royal color that she feels represents her and many other women in the Leather Community"; she sells it as merchandise with all profits to the Leather History Preservation Foundation.
  • Longhair Pride Flag Taier Parsnow designed the Longhair Pride Flag on 20 April 2009 and presented it to the longhaired community that day, describing it as his own creation.
  • Muscle Pride Flag Six equal green bars darkening from bright yellow-green to deep green, charged with a triskele of three flexed muscular arms.
  • Nonbinary Bear Flag The International Bear Brotherhood Flag recoloured for non-binary bears, keeping its seven stripes and its black paw at the upper hoist while the lower half turns to orchid, violet and dark purple.
  • Pup and Handler Pride Flag A diagonally striped leather-palette flag for pups and handlers, charged with a red open hand reaching toward a red pup head and hood.
  • Sneaker Fetishist Pride Flag Six sneakers turned inward on a wheel of coloured wedges, in the colours GayFetishGoth reads as the flags of the world, with thick black soles for the hardships the community has met in gaining acceptance.
  • Trans Bear Flag The International Bear Brotherhood Flag recoloured for trans bears, published on Tumblr by the user beartrans on or before 12 January 2019 and preserved with its post in an archived reblog.
  • Twink Pride Flag (2009, Kaisuteknon) Created and uploaded to the English Wikipedia by the user Kaisuteknon on 5 June 2009, the Twink Pride Flag has pale pink, white and pale yellow horizontal stripes with a black interlocking double-Mars symbol.
  • Twink Pride Flag (2020 redesign, neopronouns) Two redesigns of the Twink Pride Flag, posted together by the Tumblr blog neopronouns on 7 August 2020 in answer to an anonymous request: "i have two potential concepts since i couldn't pick a favorite!" Both take the seven-stripe structure of the International Bear Brotherhood Flag, ending in white, dark grey and black, and both were published in three versions: with the 2009 flag's double-Mars symbol, with a nonbinary variant of it, and with no symbol.
  • 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.
  • Twunk Flag (isobug, 29 June 2024) The first of two twunk flags by the Tumblr flag-maker isobug, published on 29 June 2024 and made for a stated reason: "I made it for a friend who couldn't find a ( non-joke ) Twunk flag he liked." Five stripes set the twink flag's pink and pale yellow between the green and navy of isobug's sensory-friendly edit of u/disneyfan1413's hunk flag, under the twink flag's double-Mars symbol.
  • Twunk Combo Flag (2024, isobug) A six-stripe twunk flag published by the Tumblr flag-maker isobug on 30 June 2024, combining the 2009 Twink Pride Flag, which isobug credits to Wikipedia user kaisuteknon, with isobug’s own Alt.