Homoflexible Pride Flag (Crimson, 2024)
Identity Pride Flag ·
Five stripes in the bisexual flag's colours, mostly pink with a narrow blue centre, designed by Crimson on 29 July 2024 and posted to r/QueerVexillology as a replacement for the 2015 homoflexible flag. The thin purple stripes keep the bisexual flag's proportions so that, in the designer's words, "the bisexual flag can also be seen, hidden within the flag". [1]
Key facts
- Designer
- Crimson
- Created
- First documented public use
- In use
- 2024-present
- Aspect Ratio
- 5:3 · as posted
- Ratio Notes
- The designer published no ratio. The posted render is 1080 by 648 pixels, 5:3; the archive's rendering follows the designer's stated tenths at the same proportion. [1]
- Stripes
- 5
- Represented Identity
- Homoflexible people
Also known as
- Homoflexible flag (2024)
- Crimson homoflexible flag
Status Proposed
Archive categories Sexual & Romantic Orientation Pride Flags
Overview
To replace the 2015 design, which Crimson considered both graphically overcomplicated and implicitly exclusionary: because the six-colour rainbow flag "was always meant to represent the community as a whole", building the flexible identities' flags from only part of it implies they "are not entirely legitimate parts of the community". [1]
Crimson designed the flag on 29 July 2024 and posted it to r/QueerVexillology the next day, paired with its heteroflexible counterpart. The redesign is an explicit response to the 2015 designs, which combine the six-colour rainbow flag with the black-and-grey heterosexual flag: Crimson argued that "the full 6-color pride flag was always meant to represent the community as a whole", so that using only part of it implies the flexible identities "are not entirely legitimate parts of the community", and that the twelve-colour designs were overcomplicated, with eighteen shapes against the redesign's five. [1]
Identity & Context
- Represented Identity
- Homoflexible people
- Subcommunity
- Homoflexible people within bisexual communities
The designer's definition, given with the design: "Homoflexibility is a micro-label, under the umbrella of bisexuality, and is defined as primarily (can be almost exclusively) experiencing attraction to the same gender (or one or more predominantly similar genders), but also occasionally (can be very rarely) experiencing attraction to the opposite gender (or one or more predominantly different genders)." Crimson distinguishes it from bicurious, "as bicurious implies uncertainty. Identifying as heteroflexible or homoflexible implies that you are absolutely certain of what you are, and you don't believe the terms straight, gay, or bisexual are great at describing it." [1]
Creators
The Creator
Crimson
primary designer
Posts to r/QueerVexillology as u/Crimson186. Designed the 2024 heteroflexible and homoflexible redesign pair on 29 July 2024 and published their master files for free use and modification: PNG exports, PDF and SVG vectors, AI and EPS masters and an ASE swatch library, in RGB and CMYK sets, through a linked Google Drive folder. Nothing further about them has been documented. [1]
They are both just combinations of the traditional 6-color pride flag and the black-gray-white variant of the heterosexual flag.
On the 2015 designs the redesign replaces.
Those flags, using only part of it, imply that heteroflexibility and homoflexibility are not entirely legitimate parts of the community.
On why partial use of the rainbow flag troubled them.
Heteroflexibility and homoflexibility are both legitimate parts of the community, and they deserve better flags.
The stated reason for the redesign.
it is a flaw with the bisexual flag, that there is no representation of attraction to anyone who is non-binary. Which, contrary to what some believe, is part of the definition of bisexuality.
On reinterpreting Michael Page's colour meanings.
The simpler, the better.
Closing the argument that the 2015 designs carry eighteen shapes to the redesign's five.
Motivations
- Heteroflexibility and homoflexibility are both legitimate parts of the community, and they deserve better flags. [1]
Attribution notes
Designed by Crimson, who posted the pair to the r/QueerVexillology subreddit as u/Crimson186 on 30 July 2024 at 00:41 UTC, stating the designs were created on 29 July 2024. Crimson published the design files themselves for anyone to use or edit "if needed, for any reason". [1]
Origin
- Place Type
- online community
- Digital Origin
- Yes
- Origin Type
- first_publication
- Physical Origin Status
- unknown
First documented publication: posted to the r/QueerVexillology subreddit on 30 July 2024. No physical creation place is stated. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Exact date
- First public use
- Period in Use
- 2024-present
Crimson posted the pair with a request that the community take them up: "It'd be great if we could all start using these flags so much to where they end up becoming the new primarily used flags for heteroflexibility and homoflexibility." Documented reception is the thread itself, 17 points and three comments, archived by Reddit six months after posting. One reader wrote: "Just found out about this term, and I really like how the reality it describes is similar to what I feel. Was a little underwhelmed by the old flag, but I must say that these new ones look amazing." Crimson replied: "Yeah, that's exactly how I felt, which is why I made them." The LGBTQIA+ Wiki lists the redesign in its flag gallery. [1][2]
The design is built so that "the bisexual flag can also be seen, hidden within the flag": the thin stripes keep the bisexual flag's proportions, and the blue stripe is the exact width of the purple stripe on the bisexual flag. Crimson credits Michael Page's stated meanings for the bisexual flag's colours and reinterprets them to include nonbinary people: pink for attraction to "one or more genders that are predominantly similar to your own", blue for genders "predominantly different than your own", purple, their overlap, for "attraction to two or more genders". [1]
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Bisexual Pride Flag
- Companion flags
- Heteroflexible Pride Flag (Crimson, 2024)
- Related flags
- Homoflexible Pride Flag
Derived from the bisexual flag by the designer's own statement: it uses the bisexual flag's three colours, keeps its thin-stripe proportions, and is built so that "the bisexual flag can also be seen, hidden within the flag, if you look for it." The blue stripe is "the exact same width as the purple stripe on the bisexual flag." [1] Published as a mirrored pair with the heteroflexible redesign, and offered as a replacement for the 2015 homoflexible design, which it does not derive from visually. [1]
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 2 records across 2 generations.
- Ancestor
- Bisexual Pride Flag
- This record
- Homoflexible Pride Flag (Crimson, 2024)
Colors & Symbolism
Mostly pink "as homoflexible individuals are mostly (can be almost exclusively) attracted to genders that are predominantly similar to their own", a small amount of blue for occasional attraction to different genders, and purple where they meet, for attraction to two or more genders. [1]
| Colour | Hex | Meaning | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pink | #D60270 | Attraction to one or more genders predominantly similar to one's own; the dominant attraction. | Sampled from the designer's posted render; the bisexual flag's pink. The designer's own swatch files have not been read. [1] |
| Purple | #9A4F96 | The overlap of pink and blue: attraction to two or more genders. | Sampled from the designer's posted render; the bisexual flag's purple. [1] |
| Blue | #0039A9 | Occasional attraction to one or more genders predominantly different than one's own. | Sampled from the designer's posted render; the bisexual flag's blue. [1] |
| Purple | #9A4F96 | The overlap of pink and blue: attraction to two or more genders. | Sampled from the designer's posted render; the bisexual flag's purple. [1] |
| Pink | #D60270 | Attraction to one or more genders predominantly similar to one's own; the dominant attraction. | Sampled from the designer's posted render; the bisexual flag's pink. The designer's own swatch files have not been read. [1] |
This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.
All meanings are the designer's own, published with the design. Crimson gives Michael Page's stated meanings for the bisexual flag's colours, pink for "sexual attraction to the same sex only (gay and lesbian)", blue for "the opposite sex only (straight)", purple for "both sexes (bi)", says readers may take the redesign's colours the same way, and prefers a gender-inclusive reading because the original leaves "no representation of attraction to anyone who is non-binary". [1]
The designer states the colours are the bisexual flag's and published an ASE swatch library with the design files; the swatches themselves have not been read, so the values here are sampled from the posted render and match Michael Page's flag within one step. [1]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 5:3 · as posted
- Ratio Notes
- The designer published no ratio. The posted render is 1080 by 648 pixels, 5:3; the archive's rendering follows the designer's stated tenths at the same proportion. [1]
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 5
- Layout
- horizontal stripes
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- pink, purple, blue, purple, pink
Five horizontal stripes in depths of three, one, two, one and three tenths of the flag's height, stated by the designer: "Each purple stripe is one-tenth of the entire flag's width, the blue stripe is two-tenths of the entire flag's width, and each pink stripe is three-tenths of the entire flag's width." The posted render is 1080 by 648 pixels, 5:3. [1]
Master files in PDF, SVG, AI and EPS were published by the designer with RGB and CMYK variants and an ASE swatch library. [1]
Five horizontal stripes in the bisexual flag's pink, purple and blue, in depths of three, one, two, one and three tenths: wide pink, thin purple, blue, thin purple, wide pink. [1]
Usage & Adoption
- Online Usage
- Reddit: the original r/QueerVexillology posting, 17 points and three comments, archived after six months [1], LGBTQIA+ Wiki flag gallery [2]
- Current Status
- online circulation only
Documented use is the original posting and the LGBTQIA+ Wiki's gallery listing. No manufacture, organizational adoption, or photographed use has been located. [1][2]
Image Archive
Screenshots & Original Posts
Flag Designs
Discourse & Debates
- The redesign carries its own argument: that the 2015 designs' partial use of the rainbow flag implies the flexible identities are not fully part of the community, and that flags built from the bisexual flag place them accurately within it. [1]
Common misidentifications
- Not the 2015 homoflexible flag, which combines the six-colour rainbow flag with a black, grey and white band and remains the design most reference sources lead with.
- Not the heteroflexible redesign published in the same post, which mirrors this one: mostly blue with a thin pink centre.
As of August 2026 the 2015 pair still leads in reference use; the redesigns have not displaced them. [1][2]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 2 sources
Social media
- 1. Heteroflexible Flag & Homoflexible Flag (NEW DESIGNS). Crimson (u/Crimson186). Reddit, r/QueerVexillology (2024-07-30). Accessed 2026-08-15
The designer's own posting, 30 July 2024 at 00:41 UTC: definitions, construction, colour meanings, design rationale, links to the master files, and the three-comment thread. 17 points; archived by Reddit six months after posting.
Encyclopedias & Reference
- 2. Homoflexible. LGBTQIA+ Wiki. Accessed 2026-08-15
Lists the redesign in its flag gallery, credited to Crimson, citing the Reddit posting.
Image Sources
- Rendering
- the designer's construction
- Credit: Encycloflaggia rendering after Crimson's construction statement
- Credit: Crimson, via Reddit
- Crimson's own render, as posted to r/QueerVexillology on 30 July 2024. [1] · Credit: Crimson · Reddit · Released by the designer for community use via linked master files
- The Homoflexible Pride Flag (Crimson, 2024), drawn to the designer's stated construction: stripes of three, one, two, one and three tenths in the bisexual flag's colours. [1] · Encycloflaggia rendering