Anarcha-Queer Flag (transgender variant)
Political / Protest Flag · One documented use, 9 July 2022
Monica Helms's transgender flag halved diagonally with the black flag of anarchism, a variant of the pink and black Anarcha-Queer Flag. [1] No designer, creation date or place of creation is documented. Its only documented use is Bristol Pride on 9 July 2022, recorded in three photographs. [2][3][4]
Key facts
- First documented public use
- In use
- One documented use, 9 July 2022
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · standard
- Ratio Notes
- No original specification survives. 3:5 is the archive's practical reference reconstruction, not a creator-specified or official proportion; photographs and source renderings show other shapes.
- Stripes
- 5
- Represented Identity
- Queer anarchism
Also known as
- Anarcha-queer transgender flag
Archive categories Gender Identity Pride Flags · Protest and Political Pride Flags
Overview
A transgender-and-black variant of the Anarcha-Queer Flag. Flags of the World states the derivation directly: the design "combines the white, pink and blue transgender flag (Monica Helms' design) and the black flag of Anarchism." No designer, date or place of creation is recorded. The family history of the pink and black design is set out in the base entry. [1]
Identity & Context
- Represented Identity
- Queer anarchism
- Subcommunity
- Queer anarchists, anti-authoritarian Queer activists
- Movement
- Queer anarchism, Queer liberation, anti-state Queer politics
Creators
Creator unknown
No identification located
No designer is documented, and no date or place of creation is recorded. Tomislav Todorović drew the renderings on the Flags of the World page and wrote its text; he is the source's author and illustrator, not the flag's designer. The Wikimedia Commons file was uploaded by the editor Liftarn, which is likewise not evidence of authorship. [1]
Contribute information about who designed this flag.
Origin
Bristol, United Kingdom (site of the only documented use)
No creation date, place or designer is recorded. The only documented use is Bristol Pride on 9 July 2022, which is a place of use rather than an established origin. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- First public use
- Period in Use
- One documented use, 9 July 2022
The flags appeared at Bristol Pride in Bristol, United Kingdom, on 9 July 2022, parted from top hoist to bottom fly with the white, pink and blue part above the black one. Three photographs of that day are cited. The rainbow-and-black variant was photographed at the same event. [1]
Todorović called the design newly created when he wrote it up on 6 November 2022, four months after the Bristol photographs. That is the source author's characterisation at the time of writing, not a record of when the flag was made. [1]
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Anarcha-Queer Flag, Transgender Pride Flag
Two parents. Flags of the World states the derivation directly: the design "combines the white, pink and blue transgender flag (Monica Helms' design) and the black flag of Anarchism." It keeps the black half and the diagonal partition of the pink and black Anarcha-Queer Flag, which is its other parent, and takes its second half from Helms's 1999 transgender flag. [1]
Its siblings are the other flags descending from those parents, among them the rainbow Anarcha-Queer variant, which shares the same base flag. The two appeared in the same Bristol Pride photographs, which is use rather than genealogy. [1]
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 3 records across 2 generations.
- Ancestor
- Transgender Pride Flag, Anarcha-Queer Flag
- This record
- Anarcha-Queer Flag (transgender variant)
Colors & Symbolism
Black for anarchism combined with the transgender flag, in the same halved form the anarchist movement uses for its other tendencies. [1]
| Colour | Hex |
|---|---|
| Black | #000000 |
| Light Blue | #5BCEFA |
| Pink | #F5A9B8 |
| White | #FFFFFF |
Working reference values inherited from the parent flags, not a historical specification [1]
No statement of meaning from any maker has been located.
No historical production specification exists. The three transgender values are the archive's standardized working colours for Monica Helms's flag, carried here for consistency of reproduction; nothing records the unknown variant maker choosing them. [1]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · standard
- Ratio Notes
- No original specification survives. 3:5 is the archive's practical reference reconstruction, not a creator-specified or official proportion; photographs and source renderings show other shapes.
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 5
- Layout
- diagonal_bisection
Parted diagonally from top hoist to bottom fly, the white, pink and blue stripes of the transgender flag above the partition and a plain black field below it. Described from the Flags of the World rendering and from the source’s reading of photographs taken at Bristol Pride, where the flagstaff was not visible in one frame and the design was inferred from the way the flag was flying. [1]
Usage & Adoption
- First Users
- Marchers at Bristol Pride, Bristol, United Kingdom, 9 July 2022 [1]
- Geographic Usage
- United Kingdom (Bristol, 9 July 2022)
- Event Usage
- Bristol Pride, 9 July 2022
- Current Status
- One documented use; current status unknown
One documented occasion, recorded from three photographs of the same event. Flags of the World called the design "newly created" in November 2022, so nothing is known of it before that summer. [1]
Image Archive
Bristol Pride, 9 July 2022
Discourse & Debates
- The relationship between the anarcha-Queer flag (pink/black) and the anarcha-feminist flag (magenta or purple/black) is sometimes debated. Both use the same diagonal bisection format. The choice of pink versus purple signals different political emphases: Queer liberation versus feminist politics, though many activists see these as deeply intertwined.
Common misidentifications
- May be confused with the anarcha-feminist flag, which uses a similar format but with dark magenta or purple (#88008F) instead of pink.
- The pink in the anarcha-Queer flag is sometimes confused with the purple/magenta of the anarcha-feminist flag, especially in low-quality reproductions.
- The flag is sometimes generically labeled as an "anarchist flag" without the Queer-specific context.
"Anarcha-Queer" (sometimes "Queer anarchism" or "anarcho-Queer") describes the intersection of anarchist anti-state politics with Queer liberation. It is distinct from, though related to, anarcha-feminism. The prefix "anarcha-" follows the convention established by anarcha-feminism.
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 4 sources
- 1. Anarcha-Queer (Queer Anarchism) — Pink and black flags of Anarchism. Tomislav Todorović. Flags of the World (FOTW) (2022-11-18). Accessed 2026-08-09
- 2. File:Bristol Pride 2022 113550.jpg. OwenBlacker. Wikimedia Commons (2022-07-09). Accessed 2026-08-11
Photograph of Bristol Pride, released under CC0 1.0.
- 3. File:Bristol Pride 2022 113554.jpg. OwenBlacker. Wikimedia Commons (2022-07-09). Accessed 2026-08-11
Photograph of Bristol Pride, released under CC0 1.0.
- 4. File:Bristol Pride 2022 113313.jpg. OwenBlacker. Wikimedia Commons (2022-07-09). Accessed 2026-08-11
Photograph of Bristol Pride, released under CC0 1.0.
Image Sources
- Rendering
- standardized reconstruction at 3:5
- Standardized reconstruction at the archive’s 3:5 reference proportion, rebuilt from clean geometry. · Credit: Encycloflaggia · Design documented by Flags of the WorldRights Archive rendering. The underlying design has no identified designer and no located rights statement. Tomislav Todorović’s own renderings remain his and are credited to him where they appear in the Image Archive.
- Bristol Pride, 9 July 2022. Both Anarcha-Queer variants are visible in the crowd: the transgender-and-black form left of centre and the rainbow-and-black form to its right. Photographed by OwenBlacker. [2] · Credit: OwenBlacker · Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0
- Bristol Pride, 9 July 2022, moments after the previous frame. Both Anarcha-Queer variants are again visible, the transgender-and-black and the rainbow-and-black. Photographed by OwenBlacker. [3] · Credit: OwenBlacker · Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0
- Bristol Pride, 9 July 2022. The transgender-and-black Anarcha-Queer variant is visible; the rainbow-and-black form is not clearly documented in this frame. Photographed by OwenBlacker. [4] · Credit: OwenBlacker · Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0