Gay Pride Flag of Pakistan

Overview

Shiana1 combined two established visual systems: the structure and charges of Pakistan's national flag, its white hoist bar, crescent and five-pointed star, and the six-band sequence of the Rainbow Pride Flag, which replaces the national flag's green field. The uploader described the result as a symbol of the LGBTQ+ community. The available record begins with the Commons upload of July 22, 2026, so the entry documents the file precisely without assigning it official or community-adopted status. ^[1]

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

LGBTQ+

National Context

Pakistan

The uploader described the file as a symbol of the LGBTQ+ community: "Flag of Pakistan with colour scheme of Rainbow flag (LGBT movement) is a symbol of the LGBTQ+ community." The filename's title uses "Gay Pride", while that description is broader. No evidence has been located that a Pakistani LGBTQ+ organization, event, or community adopted the design. ^[1]

Creators

The Creator

Attribution notes

Shiana1 is named as the file's author on Wikimedia Commons, which records the work as an original creation by the uploader. The own-work declaration is direct evidence of file authorship and supports a qualified attribution of the composite design: probable, at medium confidence, since the source provides no separate design statement. No earlier appearance of the composite has been located. ^[1]

Origin

Digital Origin

Wikimedia Commons, account Shiana1

Origin Type

first_publication

Physical Origin Status

Not documented. The design represents Pakistan visually; that is not evidence it was created inside Pakistan, and no source places its making.

First published on Wikimedia Commons on July 22, 2026. ^[1] The design's national context is Pakistan, whose flag supplies its structure and charges; where the file was made is not documented, and the uploader's location is unknown.

Dates & Chronology

First published

July 22, 2026

Creation Bounds

Undated as a design. July 22, 2026 is the file's publication on Wikimedia Commons, the earliest appearance located, uploaded at 16:54 UTC. The file states no separate date of creation, so nothing distinguishes when the design was made from when it was published, and whether the composite existed before the upload is unresolved. ^[1]

Documented circulation runs from the file’s publication on 22 July 2026 to a Wikipedia gallery eight days later. On 30 July 2026 the file was added to the location-based flags gallery of the English Wikipedia’s Pride flag article, where it is captioned Pakistani Pride Flag with the country name linking to that encyclopedia’s article on LGBT rights in Pakistan; the same row appears on the Simple English Wikipedia. ^[2] No use of the flag by a person, organisation or event has been located, and reproduction in a reference work is not use.

The archive’s other Pakistani entry, the Khawaja Sira Pride Flag, documents a flag for the country’s third-gender community and is unrelated to this design in both structure and origin.

Lineage

Direct predecessors

Rainbow Pride Flag

Sibling flags

Alberta Gay Flag, Straight Ally Pride Flag, Anarcha-Queer Flag (rainbow variant), Argentina Gay Flag, Australia Gay Flag, Brazil Gay Flag

+ 44 more

British Columbia Gay Flag, Canadian Pride Flag, Chicago Pride Flag (Rainbow Stripes, Purple Stars), Chile Gay Flag, Dominican Republic Gay Flag, Egypt Gay Flag, European Union Gay Flag, France Gay Flag, Heteroflexible Pride Flag, Heterosexual / Straight Pride Flag, Homoflexible Pride Flag, India Gay Flag, Italy Gay Flag, Japan Gay Flag, Jewish Gay Pride Flag, Manitoba Gay Flag, Mexico Gay Flag, Netherlands Gay Flag, New Brunswick Gay Flag, Newfoundland Gay Flag, Northwest Territories Gay Flag, Nova Scotia Gay Flag, Nunavut Gay Flag, Ontario Gay Flag, Palestinian Gay Pride Flag, Panama Gay Flag, Philadelphia Pride Flag, Prince Edward Island Gay Flag, Quebec Gay Flag, Rainbow Flag with White Triangle (Sapporo), Rainbow Israel Flag, Rainbow Polish Flag (2014, Angela Getler), Russia Gay Flag, Saskatchewan Gay Flag, Social Justice Pride Flag, South African Gay Pride Flag, Switzerland Gay Flag, Tanzania Gay Flag, Texas Rainbow Flag, Turkish Gay Pride Flag, Two-Spirit Pride Flag (2005, Zoccole), Two-Spirit Pride Flag (2016 Tumblr documentation), Victory Over AIDS Flag (1980s, designer unknown), Yukon Territory Gay Flag

Two direct visual parents. The flag of Pakistan supplies the structure and charges: the white hoist bar, the crescent and the star, recorded above as an external parent because the national flag has no entry in this archive. The Six-Stripe Rainbow Pride Flag supplies the six-band sequence that replaces the national flag's green field, and that composite relationship is the graph edge. The uploader's own description states the combination. ^[1] The archive's other Pakistani entry, the Khawaja Sira Pride Flag, is related national context, not a parent or variant of this design.

Lineage tree

Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 4 records across 4 generations.

Ancestors -3

Original Rainbow Flag (1978)

Ancestors -2

Seven-Stripe Rainbow Flag (1978)

Ancestor

Rainbow Pride Flag

This record

Gay Pride Flag of Pakistan

Colors & Symbolism

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

No statement of meaning has been located beyond the file’s description of the design as a symbol of the LGBTQ+ community. Nothing explains the choice of stripes or their shades, and the meanings carried by the flag of Pakistan’s own elements are that flag’s rather than this one’s. ^[1]

No palette has been published. These values are sampled from the flat fills in Shiana1's source PNG, each returning a flat result across the sampled area, so they are measurements of this file rather than a published colour specification. ^[1] The uploader supplied no stripe meanings, and the meanings carried by the flag of Pakistan's own elements are that flag's rather than statements by the uploader about this composite.

Design

Aspect Ratio

1072:621 · apparent

Ratio Notes

The source artifact is 1072 by 621 pixels, approximately 1.726 to 1, and no prescribed flag ratio has been located; the measurement is the evidence. ^[1] The design inherits the national flag's general arrangement but not its official proportion, which Pakistan's adopted specification defines as 3:2 length to width. ^[3]

Orientation

horizontal

Stripe Count

6

Layout

vertical hoist bar with striped field and central charge

Stripes (Top → Bottom)

red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet

Center Symbol

White crescent and five-pointed star

Additional Symbols

White vertical bar at the hoist

A white vertical bar at the hoist, about a quarter of the flag’s length, and a field of six horizontal stripes of equal depth, red at the top through violet at the bottom, carrying a large white crescent opening toward the upper fly with a five-pointed star between its horns: the layout of the flag of Pakistan with the rainbow in place of the green. ^[1]

No construction sheet or specification has been located for the composite; the source PNG is an artwork, not a construction record. It is 1072 by 621 pixels with no transparent margin and no border, the white hoist bar approximately one quarter of the length, the six stripes of equal depth, the crescent opening toward the upper fly with the five-pointed star between its horns. ^[1]

The flag of Pakistan with its green field replaced by the six-stripe rainbow, keeping the white hoist bar and the white crescent and star.

Usage & Adoption

Online Usage

Wikimedia Commons, from 22 July 2026 ^[1], English Wikipedia, Pride flag, from 30 July 2026 ^[2], Simple English Wikipedia, Pride flag ^[2]

Current Status

Active Commons file; online circulation documented; community adoption not established

The file entered public circulation through Wikimedia Commons on July 22, 2026 and appeared in English Wikipedia's Pride flag gallery eight days later, captioned Pakistani Pride Flag; the same row appears on the Simple English Wikipedia. ^{[1] [2]} These appearances document online circulation, not use by an LGBTQ+ organization, public event, or community in Pakistan. No physical use is documented.

Image Archive

The design

Discourse & Debates

Common misidentifications

• Distinct from the Khawaja Sira Pride Flag, the archive’s other Pakistani entry, which represents the country’s third-gender community and shares nothing of this design’s structure or origin.

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

• The original Commons PNG, published July 22, 2026; the archive's copy preserves its dimensions and geometry. ^[1] · Credit: Shiana1, via Wikimedia Commons · Wikimedia Commons · 1072 × 621Rights CC0 1.0 as declared by the author. Derived archive assets, including the 1200 by 695 social preview, make no new rights claim.
• A 1200 by 695 raster derived proportionally from the Commons artifact. · Credit: Encycloflaggia technical derivativeRights Derived from the CC0 source file; no new rights claim.
• The original CC0 composite uploaded by Shiana1 on July 22, 2026, at 16:54 UTC: 1072 by 621, PNG, mirrored here at its source dimensions. ^[1] · Credit: Shiana1 · Wikimedia Commons · 1072 × 621