Bigender Pride Flag

Overview

To provide a specific visual symbol for bigender identity. ^[1]

Designed in 2014 during a period of active multigender and nonbinary flag creation on Tumblr. ^{[1] [2]} Two versions were posted in July 2014: one with a plain white center stripe and one with a white-to-gray gradient center stripe. ^[2] Both shared the same overall seven-stripe pink-lavender-blue structure.

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

bigender

Subcommunity

multigender umbrella

Creators

The Creator

Origin

Digital Origin

Tumblr (Pride Archive / Pridearchive circulation)

Digital origin; no verified physical location.

Two bigender flag designs were posted by no-bucks-for-this-doe in July 2014 and documented through Pride Archive reposts. ^[2] One used a plain white center stripe; the other used a white-to-gray gradient center stripe. ^[2] The exact post dates within July 2014 are uncertain.

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

2014

First public use

July 2014

Period in Use

2014–present

The white-center version became the more widely circulated of the two early designs. ^{[1] [2]} It spread through Tumblr reposts and later appeared in pride-flag reference guides. Masculine-leaning and feminine-leaning variants based on the same design family also circulated in secondary documentation. ^[2] Following controversy around the original designer, alternative bigender flag designs have appeared. ^[2] The 2014 design remains widely recognized and historically documented, though it is not universally preferred.

Major revisions

The historically common version is the 2014 design with a plain white center stripe. The gradient-center version and later redesigns are distinct and may warrant separate records. ^[2] The widely circulated SVG files on Wikimedia Commons and similar repositories are later reconstructions, not original creator-uploaded files. ^[2]

Bigender is part of the multigender umbrella, alongside polygender, trigender, and pangender. The bigender flag shares the multigender flag family's use of pink and blue (for femininity and masculinity), adding purple for the combination and white for shifting between. The flag was created during the 2014 wave of Tumblr-origin pride flags, the same period that produced the nonbinary, agender, demiboy, and demigirl flags. ^[1][2][5]

Lineage

Indirect influences

Rainbow Pride Flag

Related flags

Androgynous Pride Flag, Demifluid Pride Flag, Deminonbinary Pride Flag, Genderfluid Pride Flag, Genderflux Pride Flag, Multigender Pride Flag, Nonbinary Pride Flag, Pangender Pride Flag, Polygender Pride Flag, Trigender Pride Flag

A multigender-family flag adjacent to the demigender cluster. ^{[1] [2]} Not a direct ancestor of the demigender designs, but part of the broader mid-2010s gender-identity flag tradition. The placement of pink at the top and blue at the bottom was described by sources as representing the separation yet coexistence of femininity and masculinity. ^[1]

Colors & Symbolism

The palette maps bigender experience as two gendered poles held together by a shared center, with intermediate tones acknowledging the nonbinary and agender dimensions that can accompany a bigender identity. The mirrored pink-blue arrangement presents both gendered experiences as simultaneously present rather than alternating. ^[1][2]

Circulating community values from reference sites

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

Sources differ on whether the lavender stripes indicate androgyny, mixture, or nonbinary identity specifically, and whether white indicates agender identity or broader neutrality. ^{[1] [2]} The gradient-center variant used a white-to-gray transition in the center stripe, which some sources interpreted as emphasizing a spectrum between agender and partial gender rather than a single neutral point. ^[2] The placement of pink at the top and blue at the bottom has been described as representing the separation yet coexistence of femininity and masculinity. ^[1]

No official creator-published hex values have been found. The values given are drawn from widely circulating community reference sites and later SVG reconstructions. ^[1] The commonly used Wikimedia Commons SVG is a later reconstruction, not an original creator-uploaded file; its hex values may not match the original design exactly. ^[2]

Design

Aspect Ratio

3:5 · standard

Orientation

horizontal

Stripe Count

7

Layout

horizontal_stripes

Stripes (Top → Bottom)

Dark Pink, Light Pink, Lavender, White, Lavender, Light Blue, Dark Blue

Seven equal horizontal stripes: dark pink, light pink, lavender, white, lavender, light blue, and dark blue, from top to bottom. No emblem or additional symbols. ^[1] This describes the plain white center version, which is the more widely circulated of the two early 2014 designs; a gradient-center variant also dates to the same July 2014 origin. ^[2] Both versions share the same outer stripe structure.

Usage & Adoption

Geographic Usage

Internet circulation, Later broader guide-site and institutional circulation

Online Usage

Circulated through Tumblr, Pride Archive reposts, and later pride-flag reference guides

Current Status

active

The 2014 white-center version became the historically common bigender flag, appearing in guide sites and reference compilations. ^[1] Alternative bigender designs have circulated since the mid-2010s, particularly following controversy around the original designer. ^[2] No single bigender flag design holds universal or institutional endorsement. ^{[1] [2]}

Discourse & Debates

• Multiple alternative bigender flag designs have been proposed since the mid-2010s. The 2014 design remains widely recognized and historically documented, but it is not uncontested or universally preferred.
• Two early 2014 versions existed (white center and gradient center); the white-center version became dominant in circulation, but the gradient-center version is also documented.
• Masculine-leaning and feminine-leaning variants based on the same design family have circulated in secondary documentation.

Common misidentifications

• The widely used Wikimedia Commons SVG is a later reconstruction, not the original creator upload. It should not be cited as the original design file.

Common confusions

• The existence of multiple bigender flag designs can cause confusion about which is 'the' bigender flag. No single design holds that status universally.

Criticisms

• Allegations against the flag's designer became a subject of community discussion in 2019. The Tumblr blog @bigendering investigated the claims in June that year and concluded the designer was 'not a TERF, but they're a transphobe and an abuser.' The same post set out a deliberation about whether to abandon the flag or reclaim it, and argued for reclaiming it. ^[4] The designer addressed the allegations in April 2022, writing that they were 'more or less true' and that 'flags belong to the community as a whole, not the creator.' ^[3] Nonbinary Wiki records the controversy and the redesign activity that followed it. ^[2] The allegations were made and answered within the community; no adjudication of them has been located, and they are set out here as claims and a response rather than as findings. Some community members adopted or preferred alternative bigender flag designs as a result. ^[2][3]
• The design has been criticized as exorsexist, on the ground that it centers bigender people whose genders are male and female and leaves out those whose genders are otherwise. @bigendering raised this objection alongside the 2019 controversy and recommended an alternative design on that basis, separately from the allegations against the designer. ^[4]

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

2014 white-center version (most common)

• The bigender pride flag, associated with Tumblr user no-bucks-for-this-doe and documented from July 2014. This is the white-center version, the more widely circulated of two early designs. The palette encodes two gendered poles held together by a shared center: pink tones represent femininity, blue tones represent masculinity, lavender represents a mixture of femininity and masculinity, and white represents agender or neutral identity. · Community reference