Gynesexual Pride Flag

Overview

To answer an anonymous request for a gynesexual flag, in a design legible beside the blog's earlier Androsexual flag. ^[1]

An anonymous request to the Tumblr blog pride-flags-for-us asked for a gynesexual flag, and desintoxiquer made one, submitting it to the blog, which published it on 20 July 2014. The post states the design was based on the blog's earlier Androsexual flag. ^[1]

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

gynesexual (definitions vary)

Creators

The Creator

Attribution notes

The original post's surviving Tumblr notes identify desintoxiquer as the submitting designer. ^[1] A contemporary Pride Archive post credits radicalgay. ^[2] These may be two usernames used by the same person, but that has not been independently verified. The blog pride-flags-for-us published the submission and is the host, not the designer. ^[1]

Origin

Digital Origin

Yes

Digital origin; no verified physical location.

Published online through pride-flags-for-us on Tumblr on 20 July 2014; physical location unknown. ^[1]

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

2014

First documented publication

July 20, 2014

Documented online circulation

2014–present

Creation Bounds

Made in 2014, on or before the 20 July publication on Tumblr. ^[1]

The archived post accumulated Tumblr notes, and within days the artwork was circulating beyond the blog: on 23 July 2014 local time the Pride Archive blog reproduced it for "Gynosexual and Gynoromantic Pride," crediting radicalgay. ^{[1] [2]} Later reference sites and popular guides demonstrate continued online circulation without establishing institutional adoption. ^{[4] [5] [6]} Physical use is not documented in the sources reviewed.

The Pride Archive reproduction means a gyneromantic use of this pink, brown and green artwork existed in July 2014, six years before the five-stripe Gyneromantic flag of 2020; the two designs are unrelated visually. ^[2] A separate Fem-/Gyne-/Gyno- design was published by the Pride-Flags DeviantArt account on 23 April 2016; that date belongs to that different design, not to this artwork. An older, distinct gynephilia flag in black, gray, white and pink, based on the androphilia flag, also circulates less widely. ^[4]

Lineage

Direct predecessors

Androsexual Pride Flag

Indirect influences

Genderqueer Pride Flag, Transgender Pride Flag

Related flags

Gyneromantic Pride Flag (ThatOneKnows, 2020)

Sibling flags

Mascromantic Pride Flag (2016, Designer Unknown)

The creator stated the design was based on the blog's earlier Androsexual flag, its direct predecessor: the brown carries over with increased saturation, and the layout mirrors it. ^[1] The pink is taken from the Transgender flag and the green from the Genderqueer flag, the creator's named palette sources; the creator described the green as opposite the purple in the Androsexual flag. ^[1] The Gyneromantic flag of 2020 is a counterpart identity's later, visually unrelated design; the identities are linked, and this artwork itself served gynoromantic use in 2014. ^[2]

Lineage tree

Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 2 records across 2 generations.

Ancestor

Androsexual Pride Flag

This record

Gynesexual Pride Flag

Colors & Symbolism

Three stripes whose colours are borrowed from neighbouring pride flags to place gynesexual attraction among them, in the creator's stated scheme. ^[1]

Measured from the creator-posted 848 × 482 file ^[3]

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

The meanings are the creator's, from the 2014 post. ^[1] "Regardless of sex" is the creator's historical wording, preserved as such; it is not this archive's definition of women or of trans identity.

The values are measured from the creator-posted file itself, each stripe a single flat value. ^[3] The creator published no specification. Values previously in circulation here and elsewhere, #F88BBD, #964B00 and #28B463, were reconstructions and do not match the artwork.

Design

Aspect Ratio

3:5 · standard

Ratio Notes

Not documented. The source image is 848 × 482, an exact 424:241, approximately 1.76:1; its stripe widths are unequal in the original digital artifact and are preserved as published. ^[3]

Orientation

horizontal

Stripe Count

3

Layout

horizontal_stripes

Stripes (Top → Bottom)

Pink, Brown, Green

In the creator-posted file the stripes are unequal: 151 rows of pink, 172 of brown, one blended boundary row, and 158 of green, measured at pixel level. ^[3]

Three horizontal stripes: pink, brown, green. The creator-posted file, preserved unchanged here, is 848 × 482 pixels, an exact 424:241, approximately 1.76:1, with unequal stripe depths; no official ratio is documented, and equal-stripe renderings elsewhere are later standardizations. ^[3]

Usage & Adoption

Online Usage

Tumblr, from 20 July 2014, through pride-flags-for-us and the Pride Archive reproduction within days ^{[1] [2]}, Later reference sites and popular flag guides ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Current Status

active

Documented circulation is online. Reference-guide presence demonstrates continued circulation, not institutional adoption, and no physical use is documented in the sources reviewed.

Image Archive

Original Artwork

Discourse & Debates

• What the term covers: attraction to women, attraction to femininity or feminine presentation, or, in some sources, attraction framed around anatomy. No single definition is universally agreed. ^{[1] [2] [4]}

Common misidentifications

• Sometimes conflated with lesbian identity; the term does not specify the gender of the person experiencing the attraction. ^[4]
• The 23 April 2016 date sometimes attached to this flag belongs to a different Fem-/Gyne-/Gyno- design published by the Pride-Flags DeviantArt account.

Criticisms

• The gyne-/andro- root family has been criticised as ambiguous between gender and assigned sex. The pride-flags-for-us blog itself later took that position, rejecting the terminology as cissexist in its FAQ; that is the blog's editorial stance, not a universal consensus. ^[7]
• Some sources frame gynesexuality around "female anatomy." That formulation has been criticised as reductive, genital-focused and potentially trans-exclusionary, and it is not the definition this entry uses.
• The contemporary Pride Archive post already acknowledged controversy concerning transphobia and binarism and emphasised that femininity is self-defined. ^[2]

Gynesexual and gynosexual are the attested spellings for this flag's identity. Gynephilic and femsexual overlap with the identity but carry distinct, contested histories: gynephilia is older clinical vocabulary, and the terms are not exact aliases of this flag's name. ^[4]

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

the creator-posted 2014 file

• Credit: Design by desintoxiquer; the creator-posted 2014 file, preserved at its native canvas · The 2014 submission, via the archived post
• The creator-posted image from the 20 July 2014 submission, preserved unchanged at 848 × 482. Its stripes are unequal, 151 rows of pink, 172 of brown and 158 of green with one blended boundary row, and its colours are the flag's: #F5A9B8, #8F3F2B, #5B943A. ^{[3] [1]} · Credit: desintoxiquer · Imgur