5790/2029 Pride Flag

Overview

Part of a sustained artistic investigation into the pride flag as a cultural, political, and aesthetic object. Montgomery reimagines the pride flag from a Utopian perspective, treating visual clarity as a metaphor: blurring the source flag's hard boundaries stands in for the softening of arbitrary categorizations within the Queer collective. ^[1]

The 5790/2029 Pride Flag extends the method of Montgomery's Flags for Utopia series (2022–2025), which reimagines the pride flag as a speculative, future-facing object. Where the earlier Utopian Pride Flag #6 (2040 Progress Flag) blurred the Progress Pride Flag "to the degree of 20/40 vision," this later work takes the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag as its source and blurs it "to the degree of a 20/30 stigmatism." The flag's title pairs the Hebrew year 5790 with the Gregorian year 2029 — a future the work looks toward, dated in two calendars at once. ^[1]

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

2SLGBTQIAP+ community (speculative / Utopian framing)

Movement

Queer futurism, Queer art practice

National Context

United States

The work represents the 2SLGBTQIAP+ community through a speculative, Utopian lens. It exists within Will Montgomery's broader artistic practice rather than as a symbol produced for or adopted by a specific subcommunity.

Creators

The Creator

Will Montgomery

Artist & Writer

Will Montgomery (he/any) is a Chicago-based artist and writer who works through the pride flag to imagine Queer futures. This flag is his own work, and Montgomery is also the host and editor of this database. ^[2]

"Intersex-Inclusive Progress Flag blurred to the degree of a 20/30 stigmatism", Will Montgomery, Right to Assemble (2026)

"by keeping the pride flag a living symbol, constantly experimenting and changing it, we are pushing the culture forward, remembering not to stay stagnant.", Will Montgomery, artist talk at SAIC, Spring 2026

Stated inspirations

• Queer futurist embodiment as an artistic practice^[2]
• Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz

Origin

Country

United States

Region / state

Illinois

City

Chicago

Specific Place

The Center on Addison

Place Type

exhibition

Digital Origin

false

Exhibited in Chicago, Illinois, on the traditional homeland of the Council of the Three Fires (Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi). ^[3][4]

Indigenous land context

Council of the Three Fires (Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi) — traditional and historical homeland (Indigenous name: Niswi-mishkodewin). Exhibited in Chicago, the traditional homeland of the Council of the Three Fires — the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations — and also historically home to the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, and Sac and Fox peoples. The 1833 Treaty of Chicago forced the migration of Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe peoples west of the Mississippi River. ^{[3][4] [3][4]}

Colonial / settler context

Chicago was incorporated as a U.S. city in 1837 following the Treaty of Chicago (1833), which forced the removal of Odawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe peoples from the region. ^{[4] [4]}

Shown in Right to Assemble, an intergenerational LGBTQIA+ exhibition at The Center on Addison, Chicago, in June 2026. The exhibition brought the work of What Will Have Been Ours, Quilt Church, and Will Montgomery into conversation, examining textile arts as a method for coalition building amid the present rise of authoritarianism in the United States. In the installation, the 5790/2029 Pride Flag hung alongside Utopian Pride Flag #25. ^[1]

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

2026

Year Designed For

2029

First public use

June 2026

Period in Use

2026–present (title envisions the year 5790 Hebrew / 2029 Gregorian)

The work exists within a fine-art practice and has not been adopted as a community pride flag. It was exhibited at The Center on Addison, Chicago, in June 2026 as part of Right to Assemble. ^[1]

Right to Assemble also included Montgomery's inverted, silkscreened Hand-held Pride Heraldry Flags (edition of 100, 5" x 8") and four earlier Utopian Pride Flags (#17, #31, #13, #18, 2022–2025). The exhibition framed textile assemblage — quilts and flags — as a method of coalition building and a way of archiving Queer visions "amid systemic erasure." ^[1]

Lineage

Direct predecessors

Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag, Utopian Pride Flag #6 (2040 Progress Flag)

Indirect influences

Progress Pride Flag

Sibling flags

Disability-Inclusive Pride Flag, Progress+ Flag (Disabled Queer Transmasc Variant), "Ultimate" Inclusive Diversity Pride Flag

A direct descendant of two flags at once. Its image is the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag (Valentino Vecchietti, 2021) — the source design whose colors and geometry it blurs — and its method descends from Montgomery's own Utopian Pride Flag #6 (2040 Progress Flag), which established the practice of blurring a Progress-family flag to a stated degree of vision. Where #6 blurred the Progress flag to 20/40 vision, this work blurs the intersex-inclusive version to a 20/30 astigmatism, making it a sibling within the artist's Utopian project as well as a descendant of the intersex-inclusive design. ^[1]

Lineage tree

Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 10 records across 7 generations.

Ancestors -6

Original Rainbow Flag (1978)

Ancestors -5

Seven-Stripe Rainbow Flag (1978)

Ancestors -4

Rainbow Pride Flag

Ancestors -3

Transgender Pride Flag, Philadelphia Pride Flag

Ancestors -2

Intersex Pride Flag, Progress Pride Flag

Ancestor

Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag, Utopian Pride Flag #6 (2040 Progress Flag)

This record

5790/2029 Pride Flag

Colors & Symbolism

The flag inherits its entire color vocabulary from the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag but dissolves every boundary between its elements, so that no stripe, chevron, or symbol begins or ends cleanly. This blurring enacts the "20/30 stigmatism" named in the artist's description: the categories pride flags conventionally separate — life, healing, nature, harmony, trans identity, racial justice, intersex inclusion — are presented as continuous and overlapping rather than discrete. The deliberate loss of sharp boundaries is the work's central statement. ^[1]

This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.

The stripe and symbol meanings are inherited from the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag but are intentionally blurred. Individual meanings should be read as tendencies within a gradient, not as discrete symbolic assignments — the blur is the point. ^[1]

The color palette is inherited from the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag and rendered as a continuous gradient through the blur treatment. No independent palette has been published for this work; the hex values above are the source flag's established colors, which appear in the piece as soft, overlapping regions rather than flat fields. ^[1]

Design

Aspect Ratio

5:3

Orientation

horizontal

Layout

other

The digital master reads as a landscape field; the physical piece was hung as a tall vertical banner in the Right to Assemble installation.

A 53" x 85" laser-printed nylon flag that takes the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag as its source and applies a uniform blur calibrated, per the artist, to the degree of a 20/30 astigmatism. The chevron, rainbow field, and intersex emblem remain legible as soft shapes and color regions but lose their hard edges, merging into a continuous gradient. ^[1]

Usage & Adoption

First Users

Will Montgomery (artist)

Geographic Usage

Chicago, Illinois (The Center on Addison, 2026)

Online Usage

willmontgomery.art

Event Usage

Right to Assemble exhibition (2026)

Current Status

active

This is an artwork, not a community-adopted flag. Usage is limited to the artist's own exhibitions and installations.

Image Archive

Installation view, Right to Assemble, The Center on Addison, Chicago

Discourse & Debates

• Like the rest of Montgomery's Utopian project, the 5790/2029 Pride Flag uses the conventions of pride-flag design to question whether the flag's categories help or hinder — presenting identity as a continuous gradient rather than a set of cleanly separated stripes.
• Whether an artist-authored experimental pride flag belongs in the same archive as community-created identity flags. This work is unambiguously authored as an artwork (Will Montgomery, 2026); it is included partly because the project's editor created it, a transparency choice rather than a claim about community adoption.

Common confusions

• Not to be confused with the Utopian Pride Flag #6 (2040 Progress Flag), the earlier work whose blurring method this piece extends. That flag blurs the Progress Pride Flag to 20/40 vision; this one blurs the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Flag to a 20/30 astigmatism.

This record documents an artwork that takes the form of a flag, not a modern community identity flag. Transparency note: this flag's creator, Will Montgomery, is also the host and editor of this database. This disclosure is provided so readers can weigh the entry's framing accordingly.

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

5790/2029 Pride Flag, 2026

• The 5790/2029 Pride Flag installed at Right to Assemble, The Center on Addison, Chicago, June 2026. Laser-printed nylon, 53" x 85" — the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Flag blurred to the degree of a 20/30 astigmatism, hung as a tall banner alongside Utopian Pride Flag #25. · Credit: Will Montgomery · Will Montgomery Studio