Gay Mspec Gay Ally Flag
Ally Pride Flag ·
One of four ally flags published together by the Tumblr user prideisforeveryonebutcops: five Gay Men's Flag stripes under an open A-shaped charge in Mspec Gay Flag colours, for gay men supporting mspec gay men. No date of creation is documented; the set was in circulation by 20 September 2023. [1] The LGBTQIA+ Wiki records the four as a response to harassment of people using the terms. [2]
Key facts
- Designer
- prideisforeveryonebutcops
- Created
- In circulation by
- Documented circulation
- Published on Tumblr
- Aspect Ratio
- 5:3 · as published
- Ratio Notes
- The creator's Tumblr files are 640 by 384 pixels and the wiki's later copies about 2048 wide, all on or close to an exact 5:3; the archive reconstruction is drawn at 2000 by 1200 on the same proportion. The surviving copies are near that ratio with resizer rounding: 2048 x 1228 on the wiki and 640 by 384 on Tumblr. [1][3]
- Stripes
- 5
Also known as
- Mspec Gay Ally Flag
- Gay Mspec Gay Ally flag
Status Variant
Archive categories Ally and Solidarity Pride Flags
Overview
Made in response to harassment. The wiki records the set of four as having been made "in response to harassment of those that used these terms", the terms being mspec lesbian, lesboy, mspec gay and turigirl. [2] The designer's post publishes all four together and adds no account of the harassment beyond their titles and tags. [4]
Identity & Context
The flag is for gay men supporting mspec gay men. That reading is the designer's: the title names the allying community first and the supported community second, and the artwork puts the gay mens' flag in the field with the mspec gay men flag in the letter A. [4] No source read defines mspec gay men for this entry.
The LGBTQIA+ Wiki has no page for mspec gay, and none for mspec lesbian either. Of the four terms this set supports, two are defined there and two are not. Its Gay Men article distinguishes gay men with exclusive attraction from m-spec gay men, saying the two "have differing experiences, with some overlapping spaces as well", and that a common definition of a gay man, non-women attracted to non-women, "inherently includes being m-spec". [5]
Creators
The Creator
prideisforeveryonebutcops
Attributed designer and publisher
The Tumblr account that published the four coordinated ally flags together, and the account the LGBTQIA+ Wiki attributes them to. The name is a pseudonym; the blog is deactivated, and no personal identity, location or other work is documented. [2][1]
Attribution notes
Published by the Tumblr user prideisforeveryonebutcops, who is the account the four designs are attributed to. [2][1] No personal identity and no location are documented, and the blog is now deactivated. The surviving reblog reproduces the images and the two paired titles and carries no explanatory text. [1][4][6]
Origin
- Digital Origin
- Yes
- Physical Origin Status
- Place of creation unknown
Published online, on Tumblr. No physical place of creation is documented. No location is documented for the designs or the account. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- In circulation by
- Documented circulation
- Published on Tumblr; reproduced in a dated reblog of 20 September 2023 and on the LGBTQIA+ Wiki from June 2024
- Creation Bounds
- In circulation by 20 September 2023, the date of a surviving reblog that reproduces all four images and both paired titles and carries an embedded publication timestamp of 2023-09-20T03:10:43Z. [1] That is a bound, not a date of creation: the original Tumblr post is on a deactivated blog and its own timestamp has not been recovered. The June 2024 wiki upload is a later archival capture, not first documentation. [3]
The four flags divide by field, and the designer's titles say so: two are "Lesbian" flags and two are "Gay" ones. The lesboy and mspec lesbian ally flags carry the orange-and-pink lesbian flag; the turigirl and mspec gay ally flags carry the gay men's flag. The pairing follows the terms: lesboy and mspec lesbian sit in lesbian space, turigirl and mspec gay concern attraction to men. [4]
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Straight Ally Pride Flag, Gay Men's Pride Flag (Five-Stripe, 2019, gayflagblog)
- Indirect influences
- Straight Ally Flag (vaultausir)
Field: the Gay Men's Flag, which supplies the five horizontal stripes. Charge: the Mspec Gay Flag, whose stripes fill the A-shaped mark. The ally construction, an open A-shaped charge over the allying community's own field, follows the Straight Ally Pride Flag; that is an inferred formal relationship, since the creator's surviving post states no derivation. [1]
Siblings are the other three flags published in the same pair of posts: Lesbian Mspec Lesbian Ally Flag, Lesbian Lesboy Ally Flag, Gay Turigirl Ally Flag. Other ally and solidarity flags in the archive are category peers rather than relatives of this set.
The Mspec Gay Flag is recorded as the charge component.
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 8 records across 6 generations.
- Ancestors -5
- Original Rainbow Flag (1978)
- Ancestors -4
- Seven-Stripe Rainbow Flag (1978)
- Ancestors -3
- Rainbow Pride Flag
- Ancestors -2
- Heterosexual / Straight Pride Flag, Gay Men's Pride Flag (Seven-Stripe, 2019, gayflagblog)
- This record
- Gay Mspec Gay Ally Flag
Colors & Symbolism
No statement of meaning has been located, for this flag or for the three made alongside it. The wiki explains the ally-flag format but publishes no reading of these colours, and the designer's recovered post carries none. [2][4]
No values are published. The artwork held is a 240 by 144 pixel JPEG, too small and too compressed for its values to describe the design, so no palette is recorded here. The bands were sampled only to identify which flags the design combines. [2]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 5:3 · as published
- Ratio Notes
- The creator's Tumblr files are 640 by 384 pixels and the wiki's later copies about 2048 wide, all on or close to an exact 5:3; the archive reconstruction is drawn at 2000 by 1200 on the same proportion. The surviving copies are near that ratio with resizer rounding: 2048 x 1228 on the wiki and 640 by 384 on Tumblr. [1][3]
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 5
- Layout
- field with a letter A across it
- Additional Symbols
- a large letter A spanning the flag, filled with the mspec gay men flag
Five horizontal field stripes carrying a broad, open, A-shaped striped charge. The outer apex sits at the top centre and the outer edges run diagonally to the lower corners. A triangular cutout begins at about the vertical midpoint, so the field shows through the middle of the mark and the charge reaches the bottom edge as two separate legs. There is no separately drawn horizontal crossbar: measured across all four designs the legs diverge from the cutout apex to the bottom edge and never rejoin. A field stripe visible through the opening belongs to the field, not to the charge. [1]
Five horizontal stripes of the Gay Men's Flag, charged with an open A-shaped mark striped in the colours of the Mspec Gay Flag, with a triangular cutout through which the field shows. [1]
Usage & Adoption
- Online Usage
- Published by its designer on Tumblr with the three flags made alongside it; the post circulated by reblog. [4], Reblogged by beyond-mogai-pride-flags, a flag blog with its own designs in this database. [4]
- Current Status
- Documented online flag set; adoption unknown
Circulation is documented by the creator’s Tumblr post, a dated reblog of 20 September 2023, and reproduction on the LGBTQIA+ Wiki from June 2024. No use by an identifiable organisation, event or individual has been located. [1][3]
Image Archive
Surviving source image
Discourse & Debates
The flag's occasion is a dispute inside Queer communities rather than a general statement of support: the wiki gives it as harassment directed at people using the terms mspec lesbian, lesboy, mspec gay and turigirl. No source describes that harassment further. [2]
The same wiki records a related objection to the ally-flag format itself. A different designer, thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra, made a set of six ally flags in August 2023 "after hy thought it was odd that most ally flags had the straight flag in the background". This set is built the same way, on the flag of the allying community rather than the straight flag, though no source connects the two. [2]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 6 sources
- 1. Blogs & Personal Sources prideisforeveryonebutcops: Lesbian Mspec Lesbian Ally flag | Lesbian Lesboy Ally flag / Gay Mspec Gay Ally flag | Gay Turigirl Ally flag. Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags. Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags (2023-09-20). Accessed 2026-08-12
A surviving reproduction of the original Tumblr post, carrying all four images and both paired titles and an embedded timestamp of 2023-09-20T03:10:43Z. It reproduces the post; it is not independent testimony about the creator’s reasons.
- 2. Encyclopedias & Reference Allies. LGBTQIA+ Wiki contributors. LGBTQIA+ Wiki (2025-09-06). Accessed 2026-08-11
Credits the set of four and gives its occasion. Dates almost every other ally flag it lists and none of these. Community-edited and unsigned; the site carries a standing notice that many of its pages predate its sourcing requirement. Date shown is the page's last edit. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 3. Image file page File:mspec-gay. DEInonychus12 (uploader). LGBTQIA+ Wiki (2024-06-27). Accessed 2026-08-12
Highest-resolution surviving copy, 2048 x 1228 pixels, 99 KB. Uploaded 27 June 2024, nine months after the set was already circulating, so a later capture rather than the creator’s file.
- 4. Social media Lesbian Mspec Lesbian Ally flag | Lesbian Lesboy Ally flag; Gay Mspec Gay Ally flag | Gay Turigirl Ally flag. prideisforeveryonebutcops. Tumblr. Accessed 2026-08-11 · Archived version
The designer's own post publishing all four flags, recovered from the archived capture the LGBTQIA+ Wiki cites for the set, and read again as reblogged by beyond-mogai-pride-flags. Carries the four titles and the tag list. No timestamp is visible.
- 5. Encyclopedias & Reference Gay Men. LGBTQIA+ Wiki contributors. LGBTQIA+ Wiki (2026-06-19). Accessed 2026-08-11
Dates the flag that forms this design's field to 10 July 2019, credits it to the Tumblr blog gayflagblog, and reproduces the five-stripe version placed here. Community-edited and unsigned; the site carries a standing notice that many of its pages predate its sourcing requirement. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 6. Social media Tumblr search results for prideisforeveryonebutcops. Tumblr. Accessed 2026-08-11
Cited only for the blog's deactivation: every link to it in the results, from blogs crediting it for flags and symbols, resolves to a not-found page.
Image Sources
- Rendering
- Archive reconstruction, 2000 by 1200 pixels
- Credit: Encycloflaggia reconstruction after prideisforeveryonebutcops · Rights in the underlying design unresolvedVector reconstruction measured from the 640 by 384 image in the 2023 reblog. [1]
- Credit: Design attributed to prideisforeveryonebutcops; uploaded by DEInonychus12 · UnresolvedSource evidence, preserved unchanged. [2][3]
- Surviving source image, the 240 by 144 pixel JPEG previously used as this entry's primary image. The highest-resolution surviving copy is 2048 x 1228 pixels, 99 KB, uploaded to the LGBTQIA+ Wiki on 27 June 2024 by DEInonychus12, a later archival capture rather than the creator's own file. Its embedded metadata names aubr3y_edit as Author, a file-preparation credit rather than a design credit. Preserved here as source evidence. [2][3] · Credit: Design attributed to prideisforeveryonebutcops; wiki upload by DEInonychus12 · LGBTQIA+ Wiki
Archive Notes
Single-source entry in substance. The designer's own post and the LGBTQIA+ Wiki sentence are not independent of each other: the post is the wiki's own cited reference for the set. Two citations, one source and its restatement. The post carries titles and tags but no date and no statement of meaning, and the blog behind it is deactivated.