Longhair Pride Flag
Longhair community pride flag ·
Taier Parsnow designed the Longhair Pride Flag on 20 April 2009 and presented it to the longhaired community that day, describing it as his own creation. A creator-authored specification defines a red, purple and blue field with a seven-coloured central fall shaped as the back of a longhaired head, gives the field three parallel sets of meanings, and grants public use of the copyrighted image. [1][2]
Key facts
- Designer
- Taier Parsnow
- Created
- Documented
- Documented from 20 April 2009
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · documented
- Ratio Notes
- The creator’s specification gives the field a 5:3 ratio of width to height, shown here in the archive’s height-to-width convention as 3:5. The specification’s own 500 by 300 pixel image reproduces it exactly. [1][3]
- Stripes
- 3
Also known as
- Longhaired Pride Flag
- Longhaired Fetish Pride Flag
Archive categories Subculture Pride Flags
Overview
The specification states the flag was designed on 20 April 2009 to give the longhaired community a voice and a symbol, and Parsnow’s first-person guide entry says he presented it to the community the same day. He explained that earlier symbols for the community existed but could not readily be translated into fabric flags. [1][2]
Identity & Context
The flag addresses longhaired people as a community in their own right, and its stated meanings are deliberately wide: the three bars are said to encompass "all peoples from all walks of life", the seven falls "all races and creeds of longhaired person", and the field is read separately as covering all sexual preferences and all genders. Long hair is not exclusively a fetish identity; the flag circulates in a fetish-community context through the site that hosts it, whose author is the flag’s own designer. [1][2]
Creators
The Creator
Taier Parsnow
Designer
Taier Parsnow designed the Longhair Pride Flag on 20 April 2009 and presented it to the longhaired community the same day. He described the flag as his own creation and explained that earlier community symbols could not readily be translated into fabric flags. He wrote the flag’s specification himself, granting public use of the copyrighted image "with the belief that fetish community symbols should be open"; the archived guide page’s metadata gives his full name as Taier Chad Parsnow. No creation or presentation place is identified in the located sources, and no portrait has been located. [1][2]
my own creation
His description of the flag on the guide page, archived 3 September 2009. [2]
Attribution notes
Parsnow’s authorship is documented by both the creator-authored specification and the first-person guide page archived in 2009: the specification states he designed the flag on 20 April 2009 "to give a voice and symbol to the longhaired community", and the guide entry calls the design "my own creation" and says he presented it to the community that day, explaining that earlier community symbols could not readily be translated into fabric flags. The archived page’s metadata names its author as Taier Chad Parsnow. No portrait, interview or other account of his work has been located, and no creation or presentation place is identified in the located sources. [1][2]
Origin
- Origin Type
- creator publication
- Physical Origin Status
- Origin place unknown.
No place of design or presentation is identified in the located sources. The specification PDF’s Central Daylight Time metadata stamp is file metadata rather than evidence of geography, and no map location is recorded. The flag and its specification are published on GayFetishGoth. [1][4]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Exact date
- Documented
- Documented from 20 April 2009
- Creation Bounds
- Four events are recorded distinctly. The creator’s specification states the flag was designed on 20 April 2009, and his first-person account on the archived guide page says it was presented to the longhaired community the same day; the two statements give one date for the two acts. The earliest located archived capture of that self-authored page is from 3 September 2009, and the earliest located archived capture of the full-size image is from 27 March 2012, though the 2009 page already linked to it. The specification PDF’s file metadata names its author as Taier with a creation and modification stamp of 20 April 2009, 23:23:48 in North American Central Daylight Time; a timestamp’s timezone is file metadata, not evidence of where the flag was made. [1][2][5]
Later appearances of the flag on GayFetishGoth and in this archive are continued circulation of the creator’s publication; no adoption event or later community-use record has been located.
Lineage
No derivation has been established, and the specification claims none. The specification does record that earlier symbols for the longhaired community existed but could not be made into a fabric flag, without naming them. [4]
Colors & Symbolism
Every element is given more than one meaning at once, and each reading is said to encompass everyone: the three bars carry a landscape, a range of sexualities and a range of genders, and the fall at the centre is both a longhaired person seen from behind and a rising sun. [1]
| Colour | Hex | Meaning | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red | #450000 | The cap of the field. Read as the sky, as homosexuality, and as femininity. [1] | Specification: R69 G0 B0; C47 M85 Y77 K71. [1] |
| Purple | #2E0045 | The middle of the field. Read as the ground, as bisexuality, and as the middle ground between masculinity and femininity. [1] | Specification: R46 G0 B69; C86 M100 Y30 K50. [1] |
| Blue | #000045 | The base of the field. Read as the ocean, as heterosexuality, and as masculinity. [1] | Specification: R0 G0 B69; C100 M96 Y30 K54. [1] |
| Hair white | #FFFFFF | — | Specification: R255 G255 B255. [1] |
| Hair grey | #999999 | — | Specification: R153 G153 B153. [1] |
| Hair black | #000000 | — | Specification: R0 G0 B0. [1] |
| Hair brown | #331D00 | — | Specification: R51 G29 B0; C56 M68 Y82 K74. [1] |
| Hair red | #C45F12 | — | Specification: R196 G95 B18; C18 M72 Y100 K6. [1] |
| Hair blonde | #CC9933 | — | Specification: R204 G153 B51; C20 M40 Y96 K2. [1] |
| Hair platinum | #FFCC66 | — | Specification: R255 G204 B102; C0 M21 Y70 K0. [1] |
- The seven-barred fall
- The shape of a longhaired person seen from the back. Its seven bars are the natural hair colours — white, grey, black, brown, red, blonde and platinum — meant to encompass all races and creeds of longhaired person. [1]
- The rounded top of the fall
- A rising sun, symbolizing the pride and strength of the longhaired community. [1]
The meanings above are those given in the flag’s own specification document, which sets out its symbolism, geometry and colour values together. [1]
These are the designer’s published values, given in the specification in RGB, CMYK and hex for all ten colours. [1] They are not sampled from a rendering; the artwork held here was checked against them and agrees. The seven fall colours are labelled here as hair colours to keep them distinct from the three of the field; the specification lists them under Fall Specifications as white, grey, black, brown, red, blonde and platinum.
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · documented
- Ratio Notes
- The creator’s specification gives the field a 5:3 ratio of width to height, shown here in the archive’s height-to-width convention as 3:5. The specification’s own 500 by 300 pixel image reproduces it exactly. [1][3]
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 3
- Layout
- three horizontal bars with a central seven-barred fall
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- red, purple, blue
- Center Symbol
- A seven-barred fall running from a rounded top to the lower edge, in white, grey, black, brown, red, blonde and platinum
The specification gives the construction exactly, and its measurements are treated as the creator’s specification rather than re-derived from raster edges. The field is 5:3 width to height and its three bars are equal, each a third of the height. The fall is centred, set 1/24 of the flag’s height below the top edge; each of its seven bands is 1/40 of the flag’s width at the top, expands to 3/40 at the bottom, and is rounded over at the top. The artwork measures 500 by 300 pixels and its colours match the published values. [1][3]
The fall widens as it descends, so the seven colours read as strands falling from a crown.
Usage & Adoption
- Current Status
- No documented use located
No documented case of use has been located: no photograph, organisation or publication carrying the flag beyond its own specification and the guide that hosts it.
Image Archive
The creator’s publication
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 6 sources
- 1. Primary statement The Longhair Pride Flag — specification. Taier Parsnow. GayFetishGoth (2009-04-20). Accessed 2026-08-13
The creator-authored specification: the design date, the purpose, the three parallel field meanings, the fall’s construction, the ten colour values with CMYK equivalents, the ©2009 copyright and the public-use grant. Its file metadata names the author as Taier with a creation stamp of 20 April 2009, 23:23:48 Central Daylight Time.
- 2. Archived Sources Sexuality and Fetish Pride Flags History and Meaning, as captured 3 September 2009. Taier Chad Parsnow. Internet Archive Wayback Machine (2009-09-03). Accessed 2026-08-13
The earliest located archived capture of the guide, whose Longhair entry is written in the first person: it calls the design "my own creation", says it was presented to the longhaired community on 20 April 2009, and explains that earlier community symbols did not translate into fabric flags. The page metadata names Taier Chad Parsnow as its author.
- 3. Image file page longhair.png, the source image. Taier Parsnow. GayFetishGoth. Accessed 2026-08-13
The 500 by 300 image the site serves, matching the specification’s published colour values exactly; the image embedded in the creator’s specification PDF is pixel-identical to it in RGB content.
- 4. Reference Sexuality and Fetish Pride Flags History and Meaning. GayFetishGoth. GayFetishGoth. Accessed 2026-08-13
The current guide page carrying the flag; continued circulation of the creator’s publication.
- 5. Archived Sources longhair.png, as captured 27 March 2012. Taier Parsnow. Internet Archive Wayback Machine (2012-03-27). Accessed 2026-08-13
The earliest located archived capture of the full-size image, pixel-identical in RGB content to the file the site still serves; the 2009 page already linked to the image.
- 6. Reference Copyright and reposting policy. GayFetishGoth. GayFetishGoth. Accessed 2026-08-13
The site’s blanket rights page, which claims site imagery and requires written permission for republication. For this flag the creator’s own copyright and public-use grant are documented separately in the specification.
Image Sources
- The image shown is an optimized lossy WebP derivative of the creator’s 500 by 300 source image, which is preserved in the gallery. [1][3] · Credit: Taier Parsnow · Creator specification · 500 × 300Rights Copyright ©2009 Taier Parsnow; public use granted by the creator; no standardized license identified.
- The historical source image at 500 by 300 pixels, as published with the creator’s 2009 specification and still served by GayFetishGoth; the 2012 archived capture is pixel-identical. [1][5][3] · Credit: Taier Parsnow · GayFetishGoth