Drag King Pride Flag (2018, SilenceTheFox)
Drag Pride Flag ·
DeviantArt user SilenceTheFox published this Drag King Pride Flag on June 8, 2018. The creator described it as “Based on the new drag flag”, meaning Veranda L’Ni’s 2016 Drag Pride Flag. The derivative replaces the parent’s purple band with blue while keeping its white centre and pink crown-and-stars emblem; the post gives no separate symbolism. [1]
Key facts
- Designer
- SilenceTheFox
- Created
- First published
- Documented record
- Published June 8, 2018
- Aspect Ratio
- 1024:633 · apparent
- Ratio Notes
- Measured from the source file, 1024 by 633 pixels, about 1.618 to 1. The archive’s 1000 by 600 reconstruction is a separate 5:3 file and does not carry the source’s proportion. [1]
- Stripes
- 3
- Represented Identity
- Drag kings
Also known as
- Drag King Pride Flag
Status Variant Proposed
Archive categories Subculture Pride Flags
Overview
Not stated. The creator recorded the derivation and a definition of the term, and nothing further about intent. [1]
SilenceTheFox published the design on DeviantArt in June 2018 and connected it explicitly to Veranda L’Ni’s 2016 Drag Pride Flag, in four words: “Based on the new drag flag”. The post defines the term drag king in the creator’s own wording but does not say why the purple band was changed or assign meanings to the colours and symbols. [1]
Identity & Context
- Represented Identity
- Drag kings
- Subcommunity
- Drag performance and drag culture
- Language Context
- Drag kings are performers whose drag centres masculinity; performers’ genders, styles and relationships to drag vary. SilenceTheFox’s 2018 post gives the creator’s own wording of the term, describing drag kings as dressing as men without necessarily identifying as men, and noting that some trans men also identify as drag kings. That is one maker’s 2018 definition, not a settled contemporary one. [1]
Creators
The Creator
SilenceTheFox
Designer and publisher
SilenceTheFox is the DeviantArt account that published this flag on June 8, 2018. The account is the only documented identity behind the design: no legal name, location, pronouns or biography is stated on the post or recorded anywhere else the archive has located, and none is inferred here. What the post does record is the derivation, in the creator’s four words, “Based on the new drag flag”, together with a definition of the term drag king. [1] No reason for the change from the parent’s purple band, and no meaning for any band or for the crown, is given.
Based on the new drag flag
The whole of the creator’s statement of derivation, from the 2018 post
Stated inspirations
- Veranda L’Ni’s 2016 Drag Pride Flag, which the creator names as the design this one is based on[1]
Attribution notes
SilenceTheFox published the flag on DeviantArt on June 8, 2018 under the title Drag King Pride Flag, gave a definition of the term rather than a design statement, and stated the derivation in four words: “Based on the new drag flag”. The post invites correction of the definition and points readers to a companion flag, Transexpressive. No physical location, pronouns or offstage identity for the account is documented, and no reusable portrait exists. [1]
Origin
- Digital Origin
- DeviantArt, account SilenceTheFox
- Origin Type
- first_publication
- Physical Origin Status
- Not documented.
Published on DeviantArt on June 8, 2018. No physical origin is documented. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Exact date
- First published
- Documented record
- Published June 8, 2018; later independent use not established
- Creation Bounds
- DeviantArt timestamps the deviation 2018-06-08 13:16 Pacific. Nothing records when the design was drawn, and nothing after publication documents its use. [1]
The creator’s DeviantArt publication is the only source located for this design. No independent physical use, event display, organisational adoption or sustained community circulation has been documented. [1] The source post remaining online is not evidence that the flag continued in use.
The design is one person’s published derivative rather than the outcome of a contest or a community process, which is the usual route for the drag flags registered here. Its parent reached the drag community through an organisation; this one has been documented only where its maker put it. [1]
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Drag Pride Flag (2016, Veranda L’Ni)
- Related flags
- Feather Pride Flag
Veranda L’Ni’s 2016 Drag Pride Flag is the only documented parent, and the creator states the derivation: “Based on the new drag flag”. [1] The design keeps the parent’s white centre band, its pink crown, the five larger stars above the crown’s points and the nine smaller white stars across its base, and replaces the purple hoist band with a second blue so the tricolour becomes symmetrical.
What it does not carry is an explanation. The parent’s published meanings are documented on its own entry and are not repeated here as though they had been stated for this flag: SilenceTheFox took the visual vocabulary across without saying whether the meanings travelled with it. [1]
Sean Campbell’s Feather Pride Flag precedes both designs as a flag made for drag culture. It is context for the family rather than an ancestor of this one: no source connects it to this design, and the two share no visual vocabulary.
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 2 records across 2 generations.
- This record
- Drag King Pride Flag (2018, SilenceTheFox)
Colors & Symbolism
SilenceTheFox states no meaning for any band or for the crown. The design carries the 2016 Drag Pride Flag’s crown, stars and palette, and the maker says only that it is “Based on the new drag flag”. [1]
| Colour | Hex | Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Blue | #4479BC | Hoist and fly bands |
| White | #FFFFFF | Centre band and the small stars in the crown’s base |
| Pink | #E9A9CC | Crown and the five larger stars |
Sampled from the creator-posted file. [1]
This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.
The parent flag has published meanings for its bands and its crown, documented on its own entry. They are not repeated here as though they were stated for this design: the maker carried the imagery across without carrying an explanation with it, and did not say whether the parent’s meanings were intended to travel with it.
SilenceTheFox published no hexadecimal values. The three above are the dominant flat samples measured from the file DeviantArt stores, a 1024 by 633 PNG. [1] They are not official.
The blue is identical to the value the parent flag’s entry publishes, #4479BC, and the pink sits one step from the parent’s #E9A8CC. The emblem’s pink is not perfectly flat: it spreads across about eight neighbouring values, which is what an image that passed through lossy encoding before it was stored looks like. The design visibly inherits its blue, white, pink, crown and stars from the 2016 flag, but the creator did not state that the parent’s meanings carried over with them.
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 1024:633 · apparent
- Ratio Notes
- Measured from the source file, 1024 by 633 pixels, about 1.618 to 1. The archive’s 1000 by 600 reconstruction is a separate 5:3 file and does not carry the source’s proportion. [1]
- Orientation
- vertical
- Stripe Count
- 3
- Layout
- vertical_tricolor_with_central_emblem
- Stripes (Left → Right)
- Blue, White, Blue
- Center Symbol
- Pink crown and stars, carried over from the 2016 Drag Pride Flag
A vertical blue-white-blue tricolor with a pink crown above five large pink stars and nine small white stars. The emblem sits centred on the white band; its exact pixel placement is a property of the file rather than a published specification. [1]
The parent’s purple hoist band is replaced by a second blue, so the tricolour is symmetrical where the parent runs purple to blue. [1]
A vertical tricolour of blue, white and blue, with a pink crown centred on the white band, five larger pink stars above its points and nine smaller white stars along its base. [1]
Usage & Adoption
- Online Usage
- The creator’s DeviantArt post, the only source located for this design. [1]
- Current Status
- Creator-published derivative proposal; later use not established
No independent physical use, event display, organisational adoption or sustained community circulation has been documented. That is a limit on the record rather than a measured adoption rate.
Image Archive
Primary creator artifact
Flag design
Discourse & Debates
Common misidentifications
- Easily confused with the 2016 Drag Pride Flag, since it preserves the same crown-and-stars emblem. Its distinguishing feature is the symmetrical blue, white and blue field. [1]
Drag kings are performers whose drag centres masculinity. Performers’ genders, styles and relationships to drag vary, and the term is not tied to any particular gender identity or assigned sex.
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 1 source
- 1. Drag King Pride Flag. SilenceTheFox. DeviantArt (2018-06-08). Accessed 2026-08-14
The maker’s own posting and the only located source for this design: the date, the 1024 by 633 file, the definition of the term, the four-word statement of derivation, and no stated meanings.
Image Sources
- Rendering
- 2018 creator-published derivative
- The hero is the archive’s reconstruction: 1000 by 600, three bands at exact thirds, the values measured from the creator-posted file, and the crown-and-stars emblem of the source artwork. [1] · Credit: Design by SilenceTheFox; reconstruction drawn for this archiveRights Technical reconstruction; no new rights claim. No explicit reuse licence has been located for the original file.
- A 1200 by 720 raster of the reconstruction. · Credit: Encycloflaggia technical derivativeRights Technical derivative; no new rights claim.
- The original image SilenceTheFox published on June 8, 2018, as DeviantArt stores it: 1024 by 633, about 1.618 to 1. No explicit reuse licence located. [1] · Credit: SilenceTheFox · DeviantArt · 1024 × 633
- Encycloflaggia reconstruction normalised to the archive’s 3:5 standard, 1000 by 600, with the bands at exact thirds and the crown and stars taken from the 2018 source image. Technical reconstruction; no new rights claim. · Credit: Design by SilenceTheFox; reconstruction drawn for this archive · Archive reconstruction