Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag
Inclusive Pride Flag ·
Valentino Vecchietti's 2021 redesign, which sets Morgan Carpenter's intersex flag, a purple circle on a golden yellow field, into the hoist chevron of Daniel Quasar's Progress Pride Flag. Intersex Equality Rights UK unveiled it in late May 2021 for its intersex inclusion campaign and it spread rapidly from there. [1] It has since been raised above the Smithsonian Castle, hung across Regent Street for fifty years of UK Pride, and adopted as the official Pride flag of Canada's federal public service. [2][3][4] Vecchietti's own project calls it the Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag; the longer "Progress" form is the one museums and governments tend to use. [5][2]
Key facts
- Designer
- Valentino Vecchietti
- Created
- Publicly introduced
- In use
- 2021–present
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · standard
- Ratio Notes
- The archive's production ratio. No ratio is published: the Global Inclusive Pride Flag Project distributes official specifications by request, and the Government of Canada directs anyone wanting "pantone colour codes and flag measurements" to Vecchietti through that site. [5][6] The vector published here is drawn at 6,000 by 3,810, which is the Progress flag's proportion rather than a specification for this one.
- Stripes
- 6
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Represented Identity
- LGBTQ community with explicit intersex inclusion
Also known as
- Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag
Status Canonical Variant Contested
Archive categories Intersex and Variations of Sex Characteristics Flags · Inclusive and Progress Pride Flags
Overview
Explicit intersex representation in a lineage that had not carried it. Vecchietti frames the result as a SOGIESC flag, "Representing natural diversity in sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sex characteristics (intersex)", and the Public Service Pride Network's backgrounder, which she co-wrote, ties that to the Yogyakarta Principles plus 10. [7][3]
Vecchietti added the elements of Morgan Carpenter's 2013 intersex flag, a golden yellow field carrying an unbroken purple circle, at the innermost point of the chevron on Daniel Quasar's 2018 Progress Pride Flag, leaving the rest of that design intact. Intersex Equality Rights UK unveiled the result on Instagram in late May 2021 for its intersex inclusion campaign, opening "Happy Pride 2021! For our Intersex Inclusion Campaign we'd like to share with you our new intersex-inclusive Pride Progress flag". [1] The organisation set out the lineage in the same caption: Carpenter's intersex flag in 2013, Amber Hikes and Philadelphia's Office of LGBT Affairs in 2017, Quasar in 2018, "and in 2021, Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK developed the Pride Progress flag design to incorporate the intersex flag." [8] It spread rapidly online from there. [1]
Identity & Context
- Represented Identity
- LGBTQ community with explicit intersex inclusion
- Subcommunity
- Intersex community
- Movement
- Intersex visibility, inclusive pride, bodily autonomy, anti-IGM activism
- Diaspora Context
- Global circulation
- National Context
- Adopted as the official Pride flag of the Canadian federal public service as of 2024. [3] In 2024, the flag was raised for the first time on Parliament Hill during the Pride Flag Raising ceremony. [9] The Smithsonian Institution flew the flag above its Castle building and at the National Museum of American History in June 2023, marking the first time in the institution's history that a Pride flag was formally raised on its DC campus. [2][7]
The flag addresses a human rights context. A figure of up to 1.7 per cent of the population being born with intersex traits is commonly cited in intersex advocacy, originally from Anne Fausto-Sterling's work, though the prevalence depends on how intersex is defined and is contested among researchers. Intersex people face non-consensual medical interventions in most countries. Malta prohibited intersex genital mutilation in 2015 through its Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act, the first nation to do so, while intersex people in the United Kingdom remain outside the Equality Act's protections. Vecchietti's work with Intersex Equality Rights UK and the Government Equalities Office connects the flag to those campaigns. [10][11]
Creators
The Creator
Valentino Vecchietti
Designer
Valentino Vecchietti (she/her) is an intersex equality campaigner, writer, artist, consultant and diversity speaker in the United Kingdom, and an intersex person herself. [2][3] In January 2019 DIVA magazine took her on as its intersex columnist, and that year she founded Intersex Equality Rights UK, an intersex-led organisation working through research, campaigns and cultural engagement; she and Dr Fae Garland contributed to a Government Equalities Office call for evidence on people with variations in sex characteristics. [10][12] She redesigned the Progress Pride Flag for the organisation's intersex inclusion campaign in 2021, and in 2024 worked with Evenbreak on a Disability-Inclusive Pride Flag unveiled at London Pride. [1][13] The Lesbian 100 List recognised her work as an intersex community campaigner in 2020 and 2021, and the Pride Power List recognised her journalism, media and culture work in the same years. [4] She distributes the flag and its usage guidance through the Global Inclusive Pride Flag Project and asks to be credited when it is used. [5][3]
I created the Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag in 2021. It is a #SOGIESC flag. Representing natural diversity in sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sex characteristics (intersex) This is a human rights framework
I presented it in May 2021 as part of @Intersex_Equality_Rights_UK Intersex Inclusion and Visibility campaign. My flag then went viral on the internet, and it is because of the outstanding support from people across the globe that my flag was internationally welcomed as the new Pride flag.
We need to see flags that include, support, and celebrate our community. Therefore, I designed our new Intersex- Inclusive Pride flag.
Motivations
- To add explicit intersex representation to the Progress Pride Flag lineage, as part of Intersex Equality Rights UK's intersex inclusion campaign for Pride 2021 [1][8]
- To ground the flag in the SOGIESC human rights framework, which covers sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics [7]
Stated inspirations
- Morgan Carpenter's 2013 intersex flag, the golden yellow field and purple circle[2][8]
- Daniel Quasar's 2018 Progress Pride Flag, whose design is used unchanged as the base[1][8]
Attribution
- Organization
- Intersex Equality Rights UK
Attribution notes
Designed by Valentino Vecchietti, founder of Intersex Equality Rights UK, and unveiled by that organisation as part of its 2021 intersex inclusion campaign. [1][8] The organisation is the campaign and publishing context rather than a co-designer; the Global Inclusive Pride Flag Project is the site through which Vecchietti now distributes the flag and its guidance, and "Global Inclusive Pride Flag" is that project's name rather than a documented alternate title for the 2021 design. [5]
Origin
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Specific Place
- Intersex Equality Rights UK's intersex inclusion campaign
- Place Type
- activist redesign, first published online
- Digital Origin
- Yes
Created in the United Kingdom.
Made in the United Kingdom, where Vecchietti and Intersex Equality Rights UK are based, and first published on the organisation's Instagram in late May 2021. [1][8] No town or workplace is documented, and the institutions that have since flown the flag are not evidence of where it was designed.
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Publicly introduced
- Period in Use
- 2021–present
- Creation Bounds
- Vecchietti dates it herself: "I presented it in May 2021 as part of @Intersex_Equality_Rights_UK Intersex Inclusion and Visibility campaign." [14] Vecchietti dates the design to 2021 in her own words: "I created the Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag in 2021." [7] Intersex Equality Rights UK unveiled it publicly in late May 2021, on Instagram, as part of its intersex inclusion campaign for that Pride season; Them reports the unveiling as late May and the caption opens "Happy Pride 2021!". [1] No exact date of publication has been recovered from the original post, and no date is documented for when the redesign was made.
The design spread through social media in the summer of 2021. [1] On 11 June 2023 the Smithsonian Institution raised it above the Castle in Washington, DC, the first time in the institution's history that a Pride flag was formally raised on its DC campus, and at the National Museum of American History; Cooper Hewitt hung it on its south-facing facade for Pride Month. The Smithsonian Pride Alliance advocated for the adoption. [2] In June 2022 the Mayor of London flew it from City Hall and it hung across Regent Street for the fiftieth anniversary of Pride in the UK. [4][14] In June 2024 the Public Service Pride Network adopted it as the official Pride flag of the federal public service of Canada, and it was raised on Parliament Hill during the Pride Flag Raising. [9][3]
The intersex elements are Morgan Carpenter's, from the flag he made in 2013. Cooper Hewitt, Them and the Public Service Pride Network backgrounder all credit that design to Carpenter alone. [2][1][3] One source disagrees, and it is Vecchietti's own organisation: the Instagram caption quoted by PinkNews in June 2021 reads "In 2013 Morgan Carpenter and Tony Briffa of Intersex Human Rights Australia designed the intersex flag." [8] Carpenter's own account of the design is in the first person singular, "In 2013, I created a flag that has now travelled the world," and the 2024 backgrounder Vecchietti co-wrote heads its section "2013 Morgan Carpenter - The Intersex Pride flag". [15][3] This entry credits Carpenter.
In 2024 Vecchietti extended the line again, working with Evenbreak on a Disability-Inclusive Pride Flag unveiled at London Pride. [13]
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Intersex Pride Flag, Progress Pride Flag
- Indirect influences
- Philadelphia Pride Flag, Rainbow Pride Flag, Transgender Pride Flag
- Direct children
- 5790/2029 Pride Flag, Disability-Inclusive Pride Flag, Progress+ Flag (Disabled Queer Transmasc Variant), Two-Spirit Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag
Two flags meet here and they enter by different routes. Quasar's Progress Pride Flag is the base, used whole and unaltered. Carpenter's intersex flag supplies the yellow field and the unbroken purple circle, set at the innermost point of the chevron. [2][8] Everything else reaches this design through Quasar rather than directly: Philadelphia's 2017 black and brown stripes, the transgender flag's pink, light blue and white, and the six-stripe rainbow itself. Those are inherited, not separately incorporated, and they are recorded as influences rather than as parents. [3] Vecchietti has since built on her own design: the 2024 Disability-Inclusive Pride Flag made with Evenbreak takes this flag as its base. [13]
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 12 records across 7 generations.
- Ancestors -5
- Original Rainbow Flag (1978)
- Ancestors -4
- Seven-Stripe Rainbow Flag (1978)
- Ancestors -3
- Rainbow Pride Flag
- Ancestors -2
- Transgender Pride Flag, Philadelphia Pride Flag
- Ancestor
- Intersex Pride Flag, Progress Pride Flag
- This record
- Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag
Colors & Symbolism
A layered flag in which each element keeps the meaning its own designer gave it. The six rainbow stripes carry Gilbert Baker's meanings, the chevron carries Quasar's trans and marginalised-community stripes, and the circle on yellow carries Morgan Carpenter's intersex flag into the composition. Vecchietti describes the whole as a SOGIESC flag, grounding it in the human rights framework covering sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics. [3][7]
| Colour | Hex | Meaning | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red (rainbow stripe) | #E40303 | Life. Gilbert Baker's meaning, kept intact through Quasar's design and Vecchietti's. | Circulating digital value of the six-stripe rainbow |
| Orange (rainbow stripe) | #FF8C00 | Healing. Gilbert Baker's meaning, kept intact. | Circulating digital value of the six-stripe rainbow |
| Yellow (rainbow stripe) | #FFED00 | Sunlight. Gilbert Baker's meaning, kept intact. Not to be confused with the intersex yellow, which is a different element with a different history. | Circulating digital value of the six-stripe rainbow |
| Green (rainbow stripe) | #008026 | Nature. Gilbert Baker's meaning, kept intact. | Circulating digital value of the six-stripe rainbow |
| Blue (rainbow stripe) | #004DFF | Serenity. Gilbert Baker's meaning, kept intact. | Circulating digital value of the six-stripe rainbow |
| Purple (rainbow stripe) | #750787 | Spirit. Gilbert Baker's meaning, kept intact. Not to be confused with the intersex purple, which is a different element with a different history. | Circulating digital value of the six-stripe rainbow |
| Black (chevron) | #000000 | Representation of people of colour from the Philadelphia flag, and in Quasar's design also those who have died of AIDS and those living with HIV. [3] | Circulating digital value of the Progress chevron |
| Brown (chevron) | #613915 | Representation of people of colour, from the 2017 Philadelphia flag by way of Quasar's chevron. [3] | Circulating digital value of the Progress chevron |
| Light blue (chevron) | #74D7EE | — | Circulating digital value of the Progress chevron |
| Pink (chevron) | #FFAFC8 | — | Circulating digital value of the Progress chevron |
| White (chevron) | #FFFFFF | — | Circulating digital value of the Progress chevron |
| Golden yellow (intersex field) | #FFD800 | — | Morgan Carpenter's published value for the intersex flag's field |
| Purple (intersex circle) | #7902AA | — | Morgan Carpenter's published value for the intersex flag's emblem |
This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.
- Golden yellow field (intersex element, from Carpenter's 2013 flag)
- Chosen to avoid gendered colour coding altogether. Carpenter: the colours and circle "don't just avoid referencing gender stereotypes, like the colours pink and blue, they seek to completely avoid use of symbols that have anything to do with gender at all." This is not the rainbow's yellow and does not carry its meaning. [15][3]
- Purple circle (intersex element, from Carpenter's 2013 flag)
- Carpenter: "the circle is unbroken and unornamented, symbolising wholeness and completeness, and our potentialities. We are still fighting for bodily autonomy and genital integrity, and this symbolises the right to be who and how we want to be." Speaking to Intersex Peer Support Australia he put it as being "about being unbroken, about being whole," adding that "it symbolizes the right to make our own decisions about our own bodies." This is not the rainbow's purple and does not carry its meaning. [15][1]
- White, pink and light blue (chevron)
- The transgender flag's colours, brought in by Quasar's chevron: pink and blue for the colours traditionally associated with girls and boys, white for people who are intersex, transitioning, or without a defined gender. [3]
- The chevron itself
- Quasar's shape: the arrow points right to show forward movement, and sits along the hoist to show that progress still needs to be made. [3]
The elements are listed by what they are rather than by colour, because two colours appear twice in this flag with different histories. The rainbow's yellow and purple are Baker's; the intersex yellow and purple are Carpenter's, chosen precisely to avoid the gendered coding of pink and blue, and they carry his meanings and not the rainbow's. [15][3] The Public Service Pride Network's backgrounder, which Vecchietti co-wrote, states that she "maintained the meanings and intentions of the creators of all previous iterations of the Pride flags", which is why every element here keeps its original designer's meaning rather than receiving a new one. [3] Naming varies between sources: Vecchietti's project uses "Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag" and museums and governments tend to use the longer "Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag". Both are in use. [5][2]
Vecchietti sets out the design element by element: "The trans flag represents diversity in gender identity and expression"; "The black and brown stripes represent the intersectionality of Black, brown, and people of colour"; "The rainbow colours represent diversity in sexual orientation"; "The intersex flag represents diversity in sex characteristics." She gives SOGIESC as the international abbreviation covering all three. [14]
Only two of these values come from a creator. Morgan Carpenter publishes #FFD800 for the intersex field and #7902AA for the emblem on his own site, and those are the values the intersex element carries here. [15] The rest are the values the rainbow and the Progress chevron circulate in digitally; no palette for this flag as a whole has been published. Official specifications exist but are not on open display: the Government of Canada, which flies the flag, directs anyone wanting "pantone colour codes and flag measurements" to Vecchietti through the Global Inclusive Pride Flag site, which supplies "free authentic high resolution flag files and guidance" on request. [6][5] Nothing here should be read as that specification.
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · standard
- Ratio Notes
- The archive's production ratio. No ratio is published: the Global Inclusive Pride Flag Project distributes official specifications by request, and the Government of Canada directs anyone wanting "pantone colour codes and flag measurements" to Vecchietti through that site. [5][6] The vector published here is drawn at 6,000 by 3,810, which is the Progress flag's proportion rather than a specification for this one.
- Orientation
- horizontal field with expanded hoist-side chevron and circle
- Stripe Count
- 6
- Layout
- horizontal stripes with chevron and circle
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple
- Center Symbol
- Purple circle within yellow field at hoist-side chevron
- Additional Symbols
- Five-color hoist-side chevron (black, brown, light blue, pink, white), Purple circle on yellow field
A six-stripe rainbow field with a chevron at the hoist carrying, from the outside in, black, brown, light blue, pink and white. At the innermost point of the chevron a golden yellow triangle carries an unbroken purple circle. The Government of Canada describes it the same way: "horizontal stripes in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, as well white, baby pink, baby blue, brown and black chevron stripes pointing to the right, and a purple circle over a golden yellow triangle." [6]
A six-stripe rainbow flag with a hoist-side chevron containing black, brown, light blue, pink, and white stripes. At the innermost point of the chevron, a yellow field contains a purple circle derived from the intersex flag. The overall composition retains the forward-pointing arrow shape of the Progress flag while adding the intersex symbol at the design's focal point, visually centering intersex inclusion within the existing inclusive framework. [2][9]
A six-stripe rainbow flag with a five-colour chevron at the hoist in black, brown, light blue, pink and white, pointing right, and a purple circle on a golden yellow triangle at the chevron's innermost point.
Usage & Adoption
- First Users
- Intersex Equality Rights UK, in its 2021 intersex inclusion campaign [1]
- Organizations
- Government of Canada (Pride Season guidance), Mayor of London / Greater London Authority, flown from City Hall, June 2022 [14], Public Service Pride Network (official Pride flag of Canadian federal public service), Regent Street, London, for the fiftieth anniversary of Pride in the UK, June 2022 [4], Smithsonian Institution (raised on Castle and NMAH buildings, displayed on Cooper Hewitt facade), Smithsonian Pride Alliance (advocated for institutional adoption), The Crown Estate, which commissioned 100 of the flags to hang above Regent Street for the fiftieth anniversary of Pride in the UK, June 2022 [4]
- Geographic Usage
- International, Canada (explicitly documented federal adoption as of 2024), United States (Smithsonian flag raising and display, 2023), United Kingdom (origin country; Intersex Equality Rights UK campaigns)
- Online Usage
- Extensive, described as a 'global viral sensation' upon release [16]
- Event Usage
- Pride events worldwide, Museum and institutional displays, Raised at the Smithsonian Castle and NMAH on June 11, 2023, first Pride flag raised on the Smithsonian's DC campus [2][7], Cooper Hewitt facade display, Pride Month 2023 [2], Raised on Parliament Hill during the 2024 Pride Flag Raising [9], London Pride 2024 (Disability-Inclusive variant unveiled) [13], Pride in London 2022, the fiftieth anniversary, whose parade followed the original 1972 route from Piccadilly to Whitehall [4], Qatar Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton wore the flag on his helmet [4]
- Current Status
- Active and widely used, with formal adoption by particular institutions
Vecchietti designed the redesign and Intersex Equality Rights UK unveiled it in late May 2021; it spread online through that summer. [1] In June 2022 the Mayor of London flew it from City Hall, and The Crown Estate commissioned 100 of the flags to hang across Regent Street for fifty years of Pride in the UK. [4][14] Sadiq Khan, announcing the City Hall raising: "I'm delighted that for the first time the Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag is flying above City Hall this week. By raising the flag ahead of Pride in London this Saturday, we are showing the world that our city is a beacon of inclusiveness, acceptance and diversity." [14] Simon Harding-Roots, Managing Director for London at The Crown Estate, said of the Regent Street display that they were "thrilled to be playing a small part in helping to continue important conversations, and show our solidarity and support for the LGBTQI community." DIVA describes the design going viral and being "internationally welcomed as the new Pride flag, increasing intersex visibility globally, and culminating in Lewis Hamilton wearing Valentino's flag on his helmet at the Qatar Grand Prix." [4] In June 2023 the Smithsonian Pride Alliance successfully advocated for it to fly above the Smithsonian Castle, the first Pride flag formally raised on the institution's DC campus, and it flew at the National Museum of American History while Cooper Hewitt hung it on its facade. [2] In 2024 the Public Service Pride Network designated it the official Pride flag of the federal public service of Canada and it flew on Parliament Hill. [9][3] Those are institutional adoptions by particular bodies; no organisation governs Pride flags globally, and none has designated this or any other design the official flag of LGBTQIA+ communities at large.
Image Archive
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar balcony banner
Regent Street, London, ahead of Pride
Trans Day of Visibility demonstration, Rome
White House Pride celebration
National Museum of American History flag-raising
Discourse & Debates
- Which name to use: Vecchietti's project calls it the Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag, while museums and governments tend toward the longer Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag [5][2]
- Whether successive additions to the rainbow lineage strengthen or fragment community solidarity [17]
- How the flag stands in relation to Quasar's CC BY-NC-SA licensing of the underlying Progress design, which no source read here resolves
Common misidentifications
- Often collapsed into generic "Progress Pride Flag" language without distinguishing the intersex addition
- Sometimes attributed to Daniel Quasar rather than Valentino Vecchietti
- The yellow and purple element read as decoration rather than as Morgan Carpenter's standalone intersex flag
- "Global Inclusive Pride Flag" used as a name for the flag. It is the name of the project and website through which Vecchietti distributes it. [5]
Criticisms
- The flag sits inside a longer argument about visual complexity in Pride symbols. Critics hold that successive additions, from the 2017 Philadelphia stripes through the 2018 chevron to the 2021 intersex elements, produce a symbol that loses the unifying simplicity of the six-stripe rainbow, and that itemising identities implies those groups did not belong before. [17]
- Morgan Carpenter, who designed the 2013 intersex flag, has objected to commercial uses of the intersex symbol. When Budweiser branded a cup with the intersex flag under an ambiguous description he called it "pinkwashing" that happens "when you make an image freely available and it has since become popular". [11] That objection is to a particular commercial use of his own flag; no statement by Carpenter about Vecchietti's design has been located.
Both "Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag" and "Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag" are in use. Vecchietti's own project and the Public Service Pride Network use the shorter form, which this entry takes as the title; Cooper Hewitt and the Government of Canada's pages use the longer one, which is kept as an alternate name and in the URL. [5][2][3] Vecchietti also frames the flag as a SOGIESC flag, after the human rights acronym for sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics. [7]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 18 sources
- 1. News This Pride Flag is Designed For Intersex Inclusion. Shar Jossell. Them (2021-06-08). Accessed 2026-08-16
Reports the unveiling as late May 2021 by Intersex Equality Rights UK, quotes the Instagram caption, and credits the 2013 intersex flag to Morgan Carpenter alone.
- 2. Museums & Exhibitions Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag at the Smithsonian. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (2023-06-20). Accessed 2026-03-09
- 3. Organizations Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag: Backgrounder. Public Service Pride Network (2024-06). Accessed 2026-08-16
The Public Service Pride Network's backgrounder for the Canadian federal public service, co-written by Giancarlo Cerquozzi and Valentino Vecchietti. It carries the permission-and-credit statement, the Baker, Helms, Carpenter, Hikes and Quasar meanings the flag inherits, and credits the 2013 intersex flag to Morgan Carpenter alone.
- 4. News Intersex-Inclusive Pride Progress Flags to hang above Regent Street, celebrating 50 years of Pride in the UK. Eleanor Noyce. DIVA (2022-06-24). Accessed 2026-08-16
The entry's fullest single source: Vecchietti's statement about why she designed the flag, her pronouns, her founding of Intersex Equality Rights in 2019, the Crown Estate's commission of 100 flags for Regent Street, the Lewis Hamilton helmet at the Qatar Grand Prix, and the Crown Estate's own comment. By Eleanor Noyce; photograph by David Parry for the Press Association. It states that "Valentino Vecchietti, founder of Intersex Equality Rights UK, redesigned the flag to include intersex in 2021."
- 5. Official The Home of the Global Inclusive Pride Flag Project. Global Inclusive Pride Flag Project / Intersex Equality Rights UK. Accessed 2026-08-16
Vecchietti's own project site. It titles the design "Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag 2021" and credits "Valentino Vecchietti (she/her) 2021". Its request form offers "free authentic high resolution flag files and guidance that explains how the flag should be used"; the files themselves are not on open display, so the official specifications could not be read for this entry.
- 6. Organizations Flag. Public Service Pride Network. Accessed 2026-08-16
The network's flag page. It describes the design element by element, repeats the credit request, and directs anyone wanting official specifications, "such as pantone colour codes and flag measurements", to Vecchietti through the Global Inclusive Pride Flag site.
- 7. Social media Valentino Vecchietti on X/Twitter, SOGIESC flag statement. Valentino Vecchietti. X (formerly Twitter) (2023-03-27). Accessed 2026-08-16
Vecchietti's own post, read live. The source for her dating of the design to 2021 and for the SOGIESC framing quoted on this page.
- 8. News Progress Pride flag gets 2021 redesign to better represent intersex people. PinkNews (2021-06-07). Accessed 2026-08-16
Quotes Intersex Equality Rights UK's Instagram caption at length, including the lineage the organisation set out. That caption is the one source located that credits the 2013 intersex flag to "Morgan Carpenter and Tony Briffa of Intersex Human Rights Australia"; every other source read here credits Carpenter alone. The article carries no direct quotation from Vecchietti.
- 9. Government Pride Flag. Government of Canada (Women and Gender Equality) (2025-05-20). Accessed 2026-03-09
- 10. Organizations About, Intersex Equality Rights. Intersex Equality Rights. Accessed 2026-08-16
Intersex Equality Rights' own about page, which gives Vecchietti's pronouns as she/her, describes the organisation as intersex-led, and records its 2022 Rainbow Honours shortlisting for Community Initiative with a Charity. The /about path returns 404.
- 11. Encyclopedias & Reference Intersex rights in the United Kingdom. Wikipedia. Accessed 2026-03-15
- 12. Valentino Vecchietti's intersex columns are now freely available. DIVA Magazine (2021-10-26). Accessed 2026-03-15
Could not be verified. The URL returns DIVA's not-found page under an HTTP 200 status, and the Internet Archive has never captured it.
- 13. News Disability Inclusive Pride Flag unveiled at London Pride. Evenbreak (2024-07-02). Accessed 2026-03-15
- 14. Primary statement #LGBTwiththeI: Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan is flying the Intersex-Inclusive Pride Flag from City Hall. Valentino Vecchietti. DIVA (2022-06-27). Accessed 2026-08-16
Written by the flag's designer, and the entry's working primary statement now that the two 2021 DIVA URLs cannot be verified. Records the Mayor of London flying the flag from City Hall in June 2022.
- 15. Official The intersex flag. Morgan Carpenter. Morgan Carpenter. Accessed 2026-08-16
Carpenter's own page on the flag he made in 2013, written in the first person. It gives the field and emblem values, #FFD800 and #7902AA, and records the CC0 1.0 dedication of 18 December 2013. It does not name a co-designer.
- 16. Why I redesigned the Pride Progress flag to include intersex. Valentino Vecchietti. DIVA Magazine (2021-10-26). Accessed 2026-03-15
Could not be verified. The URL returns DIVA's not-found page under an HTTP 200 status, the Internet Archive has never captured it, and DIVA's own search surfaces no article by Vecchietti about redesigning the flag. Nothing in this entry rests on it.
- 17. Encyclopedias & Reference Rainbow flag (LGBTQ). Wikipedia. Accessed 2026-03-15
- News Pride flag gets redesign to include intersex folks. The Advocate (2021-06-08). Accessed 2026-03-18
Image Sources
- Rendering
- vector rendering drawn to the published description, not a creator file
- Credit: Vector rendering held by this archive, drawn to the Progress flag's geometry with Morgan Carpenter's published intersex values.Rights Use of the flag is permitted and Valentino Vecchietti asks to be credited in association with it. [3] The official high-resolution files are distributed by the Global Inclusive Pride Flag Project on request and are not the file shown here.
- Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag hoisted on the central balcony of the Main Building during Campus Pride Week, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, June 2022. The display frames the flag as an institutional statement of welcome and anti-discrimination. · Credit: Thomas Müller · Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride flags above Regent Street, London, June 2022. A street-level view showing the flags from a pedestrian perspective. · Credit: Henry Nicholls / Reuters · Our Sunday Visitor / OSV News
- Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride flags hanging across Regent Street, London, June 26, 2022, ahead of the city's Pride celebrations. The large-scale street installation shows the flag's visibility in a major urban cultural corridor. · Credit: Henry Nicholls / Reuters · Our Sunday Visitor / OSV News
- Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag at a Transgender Day of Visibility demonstration, Rome, April 1, 2023. The image places the flag in active protest and public advocacy rather than decorative use alone. · Credit: SOPA Images / Contributor · Getty Images
- Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag at the White House Pride celebration, Washington, DC, June 10, 2023. The flag's display from the White House balcony marked one of the most high-profile uses of the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag in U.S. federal public space. · Credit: Anna Rose Layden / Reuters · Reuters Connect
- Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag being raised at the National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, June 11, 2023. The flag's installation marked one of the Smithsonian's first formal Pride-flag raisings on its DC campus. · Credit: Jaclyn Nash · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum