Demifluid Pride Flag

Overview

To represent the specific experience of partially fluid gender identity within the demigender framework, an identity that combines the fixed partiality of demigender with the temporal movement of genderfluidity.

Demifluid identity describes a specific intersection of two gender experiences: the partial quality of demigender (a fixed, stable component that is only part of one's gender) and the shifting quality of genderfluidity (movement between genders over time). A demifluid person has one component of their gender that remains constant, partial and stable, while another component shifts, fluctuating between masculinity, femininity, nonbinary identities, or agender over hours, days, weeks, or longer. This dual structure is reflected in the flag's design: the gray outer bands and white center represent the fixed 'demi' framework, while the multicolor spectrum in the interior bands represents the fluid component, cycling through pink, peach, yellow, green, teal, and lavender tones that evoke the full range of genders.

The flag's designer is unknown, and the exact date of creation is uncertain. Secondary sources consistently place it among the earliest entries in the demigender flag family, possibly predating the demiboy and demigirl designs. The spectrum interior is the flag's most distinctive feature and its clearest departure from the single-color siblings: where demiboy uses blue and demigirl uses pink, the demifluid flag's rainbow-like bands refuse to specify a single gender, visually enacting the fluidity the identity describes. ^[1][2][3]

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

demifluid / demigenderfluid

Subcommunity

demigender umbrella

Creators

The Creator

Origin

Digital Origin

Tumblr (likely)

Digital origin; no verified physical location.

Exact origin date and designer are uncertain. The MOGAI Wiki credits Tumblr user pbjkid via a submission to pride-flags-for-us on February 18, 2015. Some secondary sources informally place an earlier circulation date, but the term 'demifluid' itself was first used on November 11, 2014, by Tumblr user demigenders, which makes any pre-2014 claim difficult to support. ^[1][2][4]

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

2015

Exact date

February 18, 2015

First public use

February 18, 2015

Period in Use

2015–present

Creation Bounds

Sources disagree on when the design was made. The MOGAI Wiki credits Tumblr user pbjkid with a submission to pride-flags-for-us on 18 February 2015. ^[4] Other reference sources place the design before 2013. ^[1][2] The discrepancy is unresolved and may reflect different versions of the flag or imprecise dating in the earlier sources. This entry uses the 2015 date, which is the only one attached to a named creator and a specific submission.

The demifluid flag is less widely known than the demiboy or demigirl flags, partly because the identity it represents occupies a more conceptually specific niche. It appears in demigender flag guides including Library.LGBT and the LGBTQIA+ Wiki, and is recognized within nonbinary community spaces, but has not achieved the same level of institutional inclusion as its more prominent siblings. ^[1][2]

The demifluid flag's spectrum interior creates a design challenge that its single-color siblings avoid: the multicolor bands are difficult to reproduce in sewn fabric, requiring either printed flags or careful sub-stripe construction. This practical limitation may partly explain its lower visibility compared to the demiboy and demigirl flags, which are straightforward to manufacture. The relationship between demifluid and genderfluid is one of overlap rather than hierarchy: demifluid is not 'less genderfluid' but rather specifies that only part of one's gender is fluid while another part remains fixed. ^[1][2][3]

Lineage

Indirect influences

Deminonbinary Pride Flag, Genderfluid Pride Flag, Rainbow Pride Flag, Transgender Pride Flag

Related flags

Bigender Pride Flag, Demiboy Pride Flag, Demigirl Pride Flag, Genderflux Pride Flag, Multigender Pride Flag, Pangender Pride Flag, Polygender Pride Flag, Trigender Pride Flag

Part of the same demigender visual family as the deminonbinary, demiboy, and demigirl flags, with fluidity emphasized through a multicolor spectrum interior rather than a single gender-indicating color. ^[1]

Colors & Symbolism

A member of the demigender flag family, using the shared mirrored seven-stripe structure with a multicolor spectrum replacing the single-color interior stripes to indicate that the gender component is fluid rather than fixed. ^[1]

Circulating community values from reference sites

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

Unlike the demiboy (blue), demigirl (pink), and deminonbinary (yellow) variants, the demifluid version replaces the single-color interior stripes with a gradient spectrum, showing the fluidity of the gender element alongside the consistent 'demi' (partial) framing of the outer gray bands. ^[1]

No official creator-published hex specification. The spectrum interior sub-stripe colors are approximate reconstructions from reference sites. ^[5]

Design

Aspect Ratio

3:5 · standard

Orientation

horizontal

Stripe Count

7

Layout

horizontal_stripes

Stripes (Top → Bottom)

Dark Gray, Light Gray, Multicolor spectrum, White, Multicolor spectrum, Light Gray, Dark Gray

Seven-stripe mirrored structure: dark gray, light gray, multicolor spectrum band, white, multicolor spectrum band, light gray, dark gray, from top to bottom. The spectrum bands contain sub-stripes in pink, peach, yellow, green, teal, and lavender tones. ^[5] The multicolor interior bands are typically rendered as a series of thin sub-stripes rather than a smooth gradient.

Usage & Adoption

Geographic Usage

Internet circulation

Online Usage

Documented in demigender flag guides

Current Status

active

Less widely known than demiboy or demigirl, but established within demigender flag reference material. ^[1]

Discourse & Debates

• Whether demifluid belongs primarily under the demigender umbrella, the genderfluid umbrella, or both, community usage varies ^[2][3]
• Whether the multicolor spectrum interior bands should use standardized colors (matching the genderfluid flag) or remain as-is with their own palette ^[1]
• Whether demifluid and genderfluid are distinct enough to warrant separate flags, or whether the proliferation of closely related gender flags fragments visibility rather than building it.

Common misidentifications

• Sometimes confused with the genderfluid flag due to the shared concept of gender fluidity, the key distinction is the gray 'demi' frame indicating partiality
• The spectrum interior is sometimes misread as a rainbow pride reference rather than a visual representation of gender fluidity

Common confusions

• Demifluid is sometimes confused with genderflux (which describes changing intensity of a single gender) or genderfluid (which describes movement between genders without the fixed partial component)
• The flag's unknown creator and uncertain date make it harder to cite authoritatively than its siblings, leading to occasional omission from pride flag guides

Criticisms

• The conceptual specificity of demifluid, combining partial gender with fluid gender, is sometimes dismissed as 'too niche' by people who feel that nonbinary is a sufficient umbrella. The counter-position is that precision in language creates visibility for experiences that would otherwise be invisible, and that the same criticism was once leveled at terms like 'nonbinary' itself. ^[2][3]

Demifluid is a compound identity: 'demi-' (partial) plus 'fluid' (changing). It is distinct from demigender broadly (which may be stable), from genderfluid (which does not imply a fixed partial component), and from genderflux (which describes changing intensity rather than changing direction). ^[2][3]

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

seven-stripe spectrum version

• The demifluid pride flag, featuring a seven-stripe mirrored structure with gray outer bands representing partial gender connection, a white center for agender or nonbinary identity, and multicolor spectrum interior bands representing gender fluidity. The spectrum bands distinguish it from the single-color demiboy and demigirl siblings. · Community reference image