Muscle Pride Flag
Fetish and kink community flag ·
Six equal green bars darkening from bright yellow-green to deep green, charged with a triskele of three flexed muscular arms. The earliest located publication is a GayFetishGoth page preserved on 6 August 2013, which attributes the design to Jonathan Thorn, dates it to 2013, and reads the green as growth, the bars as an homage to the gay pride flag, and the arms as the three kinds of growth the fetish is built around. No independent statement by Thorn is documented. [1][2]
Key facts
- Designer
- Jonathan Thorn
- Created
- Documented
- Documented from 6 August 2013
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · standard
- Stripes
- 6
Archive categories Subculture Pride Flags
Overview
GayFetishGoth's page, preserved from 6 August 2013, presents the flag with the attribution to Jonathan Thorn and the design year 2013, making the surviving publication contemporaneous with the year it attributes. Nothing else about the flag's making has been located. [1]
Identity & Context
The source presents the flag as a symbol "for muscle enthusiasts and those with a fetish for muscular bodies or building muscle mass", which covers both the admirer and the person building the body. It is a fetish and kink community flag, not a sexual-orientation flag. [2]
Creators
The Creator
Jonathan Thorn
Attributed designer
Jonathan Thorn is the designer to whom GayFetishGoth's 2013 publication attributes the Muscle Pride Flag. The credit is source-attributed and not independently confirmed: no statement by Thorn, no portrait, and no biographical information about him is documented, and his place of origin is unknown. People who share the name have no documented connection to this flag. [1][2]
Attribution notes
The design is attributed to Jonathan Thorn by GayFetishGoth's publication, preserved from 6 August 2013. The credit is source-attributed rather than independently confirmed: no statement by Thorn is documented, no portrait has been located, and searches on the name return unrelated people rather than anyone connected to this flag. The guide names no author for itself and cites no source for the credit. [1][2]
Origin
- Origin Type
- publication origin only
- Physical Origin Status
- Origin place not documented.
No place of design is documented. The publishing site's own location is not evidence of where the flag was designed, and the entry records none. [2]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Documented
- Documented from 6 August 2013
- Creation Bounds
- Two facts are recorded separately. The design year is 2013, as attributed by the earliest located publication; the earliest located publication itself is a GayFetishGoth page preserved on 6 August 2013, contemporaneous with that attributed year. The earliest located preserved copy of the source image is a capture of 18 May 2015. [1][3]
The attribution and the date rest on GayFetishGoth's publication. The page survives in an archived capture of 6 August 2013, and the source image in a capture of 18 May 2015 that is pixel-identical to the file the site still serves. [1][3][4]
Lineage
- Indirect influences
- Rainbow Pride Flag
The source reads the six bars as an homage to the gay pride flag, and that stated homage is recorded as a documented design reference rather than a derivation: the flag borrows the horizontal-bar format as a gesture toward the rainbow flag without deriving its palette or structure from it. [2]
Colors & Symbolism
In the source's account, green stands for growth and the bars themselves are an homage to the gay pride flag. The triskele at the centre divides that growth three ways. [2]
| Colour | Hex |
|---|---|
| Bar 1 (top) | #7FF816 |
| Bar 2 | #5AD400 |
| Bar 3 | #47A900 |
| Bar 4 | #1BA700 |
| Bar 5 | #028800 |
| Bar 6 (bottom) | #0C5E00 |
This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.
- The triskele of three flexed arms
- The three components the source names as the core of the fetish: muscle development and growth, height growth, and cock or breast growth. [2]
The meanings here are GayFetishGoth's account. No statement by the attributed designer has been located, so none of it is creator testimony. The threefold form of the emblem is not connected to any other flag's symbols. [2]
No palette has been published by the attributed designer. The values above are the exact solid fills of the source PNG hosted by GayFetishGoth, one per bar, measured from the file itself; the site's earlier display copy here was a lossy derivative whose sampled values differed by a few units. "Two gradients" is the source's own terminology for the field; the file's six fills darken in one continuous light-to-dark sequence. [4][2]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · standard
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 6
- Layout
- six equal horizontal bars with a central charge
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- bright yellow-green, yellow-green, mid green, green, dark green, deep green
- Center Symbol
- A triskele of three flexed, muscular arms, each bent at the elbow and turned about a common centre, in tan, orange and dark brown
Six equal horizontal green bars fill the field, moving from bright yellow-green at the top to deep green at the bottom. A brown-and-tan triskele formed from three flexed muscular arms is centred over the bars. Although the source describes two gradients, the preserved digital file contains six flat colours in a continuous light-to-dark sequence: the source rendering is 500 by 300 pixels with six exact 50-pixel bars, each holding one solid fill. [4][2]
The triskele has no torso. The three arms meet at the centre and radiate from it, drawn in flat blocks of tan, orange and brown without outline. [4]
Usage & Adoption
- Current Status
- Documented online from 2013
The design is documented online from 2013. No organizational adoption, selection process, parade debut, or broad community use is currently documented. [1][2]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 5 sources
- 1. Archived Sources Sexuality and Fetish Pride Flags History and Meaning, as captured 6 August 2013. GayFetishGoth. Internet Archive Wayback Machine (2013-08-06). Accessed 2026-08-12
The earliest located publication of the design: an archived capture of the GayFetishGoth page from 6 August 2013 carrying the flag with the attribution to Jonathan Thorn and the year 2013, contemporaneous with that attributed year.
- 2. Reference Sexuality and Fetish Pride Flags History and Meaning. GayFetishGoth. GayFetishGoth. Accessed 2026-08-12
The current reference page. It titles the flag Muscle Pride Flag, credits Jonathan Thorn with the year 2013 beneath the title, and carries the symbolism quoted in this entry. The guide names no author for itself and cites no source for its credits, so its attributions are source attributions rather than creator testimony.
- 3. Archived Sources muscle.png, as captured 18 May 2015. Internet Archive Wayback Machine (2015-05-18). Accessed 2026-08-12
The earliest located preserved copy of the source image. Its file bytes differ from the live PNG but the two are pixel-identical when decoded.
- 4. Image file page muscle.png, the source rendering. GayFetishGoth. Accessed 2026-08-12
The 500 by 300 PNG the site serves. SHA-256 57c0c6ff4026a88bd0ec3ba300f7e21a479a414b2c89d69e3ee803f3b8584eaf. Six exact 50-pixel bars, each one solid fill; the palette in this entry is measured from this file.
- 5. Reference Copyright and reposting policy. GayFetishGoth. GayFetishGoth. Accessed 2026-08-12
States that the site's content may be reposted only with explicit written consent from the content owner, kept on file, with credit and a working link, and identifies Eryck Herouin and GFG LLC as content owners. Cited for the rendering's rights status; it does not grant a license.
Image Sources
- The image shown is Encycloflaggia's 500 by 300 WebP derivative of the source PNG hosted by GayFetishGoth, whose earliest located preserved copy is an archived capture of 18 May 2015. [4][3] · Credit: Design attributed by GayFetishGoth to Jonathan Thorn · GayFetishGoth · 500 × 300 source renderingRights The flag design is attributed by GayFetishGoth to Jonathan Thorn. GFG LLC claims rights in the displayed source rendering and requires written permission for reuse. No license or permission record is currently attached to this archive copy. Rights information