Gynesexual Pride Flag

Overview

To provide a pride symbol for people who experience attraction to women or femininity, using terminology that does not assume the gender of the person experiencing the attraction. This is particularly useful for nonbinary individuals for whom terms like 'heterosexual' or 'homosexual' do not apply.

The gynesexual pride flag was created as a submission to the Tumblr blog pride-flags-for-us, which collected community-designed pride flags. The flag appeared on the Pride-Flags DeviantArt account on or before April 23, 2016. The designer's identity and exact creation date are unknown. The terms gynephilia and androphilia have a longer history in sexology, where they were used to describe the type of partner a person preferred regardless of the person's own anatomy or gender identity, providing an alternative to binary terms such as heterosexual and homosexual. The flag design is closely related to the androsexual flag, with the two forming a conceptual pair.

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

Gynesexual or gynephilic people, who experience sexual attraction to women, femininity, or female-associated traits regardless of their own gender identity

Creators

Attribution notes

The most widely circulated gynesexual flag was submitted to the Tumblr blog pride-flags-for-us. The flag appeared on the Pride-Flags DeviantArt account as early as April 23, 2016, but the original designer's name and the exact creation date are unknown.

Origin

Digital Origin

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Digital origin; no verified physical location.

Submitted to the Tumblr blog pride-flags-for-us. Earliest confirmed online appearance is April 23, 2016 on the Pride-Flags DeviantArt account.

Dates & Chronology

First public use

April 23, 2016

The flag circulates in online Queer and nonbinary communities, particularly on Tumblr, DeviantArt, and identity wikis.

An older, distinct gynephilia pride flag (black, gray, white, and pink, based on the androphilia pride flag) also exists but is less widely circulated than the pink-brown-green version.

Lineage

Indirect influences

Genderqueer Pride Flag, Rainbow Pride Flag, Transgender Pride Flag

Related flags

Abroromantic Pride Flag, Abrosexual Pride Flag, Androromantic Pride Flag, Androsexual Pride Flag, Biromantic Pride Flag, Ceteroromantic Pride Flag, Ceterosexual Pride Flag, Demiromantic Pride Flag, Demisexual Pride Flag, Gyneromantic Pride Flag, Omniromantic Pride Flag, Panromantic Pride Flag, Polyromantic Pride Flag

The gynesexual and androsexual flags form a conceptual pair. The pink top stripe references the transgender flag, and the green bottom stripe references the genderqueer flag. The androsexual flag uses blue and purple in the corresponding positions.

Colors & Symbolism

The three stripes reference attraction to femininity in a gender-inclusive way. The color choices deliberately connect to other pride flags (transgender and genderqueer) to signal that gynesexuality is not limited to any particular gender identity in the person experiencing the attraction.

Circulating values from SVG reconstruction.

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

Both the green (gynesexual) and purple (androsexual) bottom stripes appear on the genderqueer pride flag, reinforcing the connection between these orientations and nonbinary gender contexts. The color meanings are documented across wiki sources but have not been verified from a direct creator statement.

Circulating values from SVG reconstruction. No creator-issued color specifications have been found. Flagcolorcodes.com lists similar values. ^[1]

Design

Aspect Ratio

3:2

Orientation

horizontal

Stripe Count

3

Layout

horizontal stripes

Stripes (Top → Bottom)

pink, brown, green

Three equal horizontal stripes.

Three equal horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: pink, brown, and green.

Usage & Adoption

First Users

Online Queer and nonbinary communities

Online Usage

Tumblr, DeviantArt, LGBTQIA+ identity wikis

Current Status

active

Circulates primarily in online spaces. The term gynesexual/gynephilic is used in some academic and clinical sexology contexts, but the flag itself is a community creation without institutional backing.

Image Archive

Flag design

Discourse & Debates

• Whether the gynephilia/androphilia framework carries unwanted medicalized connotations when used as community identity labels. The terms originate in clinical sexology (Hirschfeld, early twentieth century; Langevin, 1980s), and some community members prefer them precisely for their clinical neutrality, while others find them inaccessible.

Common confusions

• Sometimes conflated with lesbian identity, though gynesexuality is not gender-specific in the person experiencing it.
• The terms gynephilia, gynosexual, and gynesexual are used interchangeably in some contexts but have slightly different emphases in others.

Gynephilia and androphilia originate in sexology as gender-neutral alternatives to heterosexual/homosexual. The term 'femsexual' has also been used as an equivalent. The mascic counterpart is androsexual.

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

pride-flags-for-us submission (pink-brown-green)

• The Gynesexual Pride Flag. Pink references the transgender flag, brown represents stability and support, and green references the genderqueer flag. Colors are approximated from circulating images. · SVG reconstruction