Non-Girl Lesbian Flag

Overview

Ari felt underrepresented: no widely recognized flag existed for lesbians outside the woman or girl category. ^[1]

Ari posted the flag to r/lgbt on 27 November 2025 under the title "I made a flag for lesbians who don't identify as female (I'm a genderfluid lesbian so I wanted a flag to represent me)," naming the design the Non-Girl Lesbian Flag and describing its audience as "nonbinary, gender-expansive, and otherwise not-girl lesbians." ^{[1] [5]} Asked whether the green stripe was meant to be slightly larger than the yellow, Ari answered: "no, the program I use just did that and fixing it would take a really long time." The two narrow stripes were intended narrower than the three main bands; their unequal heights were an artifact of the program used. ^[1]

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

Lesbians who do not identify as female, in the creator's title wording: nonbinary, gender-expansive, and otherwise not-girl lesbians

Subcommunity

Nonbinary lesbians, genderfluid lesbians, gender-expansive lesbians, Genderqueer lesbians

Definitions of lesbian differ by source. Merriam-Webster defines the term as "a woman who is sexually or romantically attracted to other women : a gay woman." ^[6] The community-authored LGBTQIA+ Wiki circulates a broader "non-men attracted to non-men" framing; that page currently warns that it requires substantial reworking and lacks citations, so it documents that the framing circulates rather than settling it. ^[7] Scholarship treats non-binary lesbian identity as its own subject: Levi C. R. Hord's study of "post-gender sexuality through the 'non-binary lesbian'" in Sexualities. ^[8] Ari's flag proposes a symbol within that space; none of these sources establishes a single universal definition, and the flag does not depend on one.

Creators

The Creator

Ari

Designer

Ari described themself in the post as a genderfluid lesbian, and made the flag for lesbians who fall outside the woman or girl category. ^[1] Nothing further about the person is documented in the sources reviewed.

I don't feel dysphoric calling myself lesbian, just underrepresented because there's not a widely recognized flag for me (also my flag is for more than just genderfluid lesbians)

Replying to a commenter who raised the aurorasexual label.

I made this flag as a generalization over everyone who feels like they identify as a lesbian but don't fit strictly into the woman category

Replying to a commenter who raised the trixic label.

Motivations

• Feeling underrepresented: no widely recognized flag existed for lesbians outside the woman or girl category. ^[1]

Attribution notes

Ari is the display name on the Reddit profile posting as u/Valerie_HazbinHotel. ^[9] The design and artwork are Ari's; u/Maximio_Horse rendered the line-fixed derivative with Ari's permission and is its renderer, not a co-creator of the flag. ^{[3] [4]}

Origin

Specific Place

Reddit (r/lgbt)

Place Type

online_forum

Digital Origin

Yes

Digital origin; no verified physical location.

Posted to Reddit's r/lgbt at 18:47 UTC on 27 November 2025; physical location unknown. ^[5] Ari crossposted it to r/rarelesbians, r/QueerVexillology and r/actuallesbians about seven hours later, at 01:48 to 01:49 UTC on 28 November, still 27 November in North American time zones. ^{[10] [11] [12]}

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

2025

First documented publication

November 27, 2025

Creation Bounds

Made no later than 27 November 2025: Reddit's feed records the post at 18:47:02 UTC that day. Publication is documented; the design date itself is not. ^[5]

Documented circulation is Ari's original post, the three crossposts Ari made the same night, and one creator-approved derivative. ^{[1] [10] [11] [12] [3]} The same day as the original post, u/Maximio_Horse offered to even the stripe lines; Ari agreed, asking that the colours stay and that the green and yellow remain narrower, and approved the result: "this looks so good thank youuu." ^{[1] [3] [4]} Outside this Encycloflaggia entry, no independently maintained flag-wiki coverage or clear evidence of later independent adoption was located in searches completed 12 August 2026.

Earlier flags for adjacent identities predate this proposal, including several nonbinary-lesbian designs circulating since 2018 and the widely used sunset lesbian flag; they are context, not sources of this design. One commenter said the top and bottom colours reminded them of an existing lesbian flag, and Ari thanked the commenter without confirming any intentional derivation. ^[1]

Lineage

Related flags

Sunset Lesbian Flag, Sapphic Flag, Trixic Pride Flag (2017, Non-aligned-sapphic)

No source documents a parent flag or a named influence: Ari stated a feeling of underrepresentation, not a model. ^[1] A commenter's remark that the top and bottom colours recalled an existing lesbian flag drew thanks from Ari without confirmation, and stands as an observed visual comparison only. ^[1] The sunset lesbian flag, earlier nonbinary-lesbian proposals, and the trixic and lesboy flags are identity context discussed alongside this design rather than its genealogy.

Colors & Symbolism

Five stripes whose meanings Ari published with the flag, quoted verbatim in the table. ^[1]

Exact sample from the creator-posted 1920 × 1080 file ^[2]

This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.

All five meanings are quotations from the primary Reddit post. ^[1]

The values are exact samples from Ari's posted file, not creator-issued specifications; Ari published no hex codes. ^[2] The approved derivative differs by one channel value in the red (#7D0123) and the purple (#AA89BD), incidental redraw variation in a redraw meant to keep Ari's colours. ^[4]

Design

Aspect Ratio

3:5 · standard

Ratio Notes

Source image: 1920 × 1080 (16:9); official ratio not stated. The creator-approved derivative is approximately 5:3; neither establishes an official flag ratio. ^{[2] [4]}

Orientation

horizontal

Stripe Count

5

Layout

horizontal_stripes

Stripes (Top → Bottom)

Dark Red (Maroon), Sage Green, Purple / Lavender, Yellow, Pink

In the creator-posted file the red/green and green/purple boundaries are horizontal, while the purple/yellow and yellow/pink boundaries slope by roughly ten pixels from left to right with transitional pixels between them. At the centre column the principal solid-colour runs are approximately 257 px of red, 141 of green, 294 of purple, 110 of yellow and 275 of pink. ^[2]

The green and yellow bands were both intended narrower than the three main bands; their unequal heights were an artifact of the program used, as Ari stated when asked. ^[1] The creator-approved derivative evens the lines: three equal 171 px wide-band cores and two equal 54 px narrow-band cores. ^[4]

Five horizontal bands: dark maroon red, pale sage green, lavender, pale yellow, pink, the green and yellow narrower than the rest, with no emblem. ^{[1] [2]}

Usage & Adoption

Online Usage

Reddit: Ari's original r/lgbt post and Ari's same-night crossposts to r/rarelesbians, r/QueerVexillology and r/actuallesbians ^{[1] [10] [11] [12]}

Current Status

proposed

Documented circulation is the creator's own posts and one creator-approved derivative by another Reddit user; the crossposts are Ari's, not independent communities adopting the flag. ^[3] Outside this Encycloflaggia entry, no independently maintained flag-wiki coverage or clear evidence of later independent adoption was located in searches completed 12 August 2026. Period in use: not established.

Image Archive

Original Artwork and Approved Derivative

Discourse & Debates

• Terminology raised in the comments: whether "female" or "woman" better names what the flag's audience is outside of; commenters discussed the wording, and no correction was issued by Ari. ^[1]
• Related labels raised in the comments: a commenter offered aurorasexual, and Ari replied they did not feel dysphoric using lesbian and that the flag was for more than genderfluid lesbians; another offered trixic, which Ari had not known, reiterating the flag was "a generalization over everyone who feels like they identify as a lesbian but don't fit strictly into the woman category"; a third raised lesboy, and Ari clarified the audience was broader than masculine-aligned people. The labels overlap without being synonymous. ^{[1] [13] [14]}
• Creator-approved stripe correction: u/Maximio_Horse asked about the unequal narrow stripes, offered an evened redraw, and posted it with Ari's permission and approval. ^{[1] [3] [4]}

Common misidentifications

• Distinct from earlier nonbinary-lesbian flag proposals circulating since 2018 and from the sunset lesbian flag; the identities overlap, the designs do not. ^[7]

Ari's title says "lesbians who don't identify as female"; the subtitle names the audience as "nonbinary, gender-expansive, and otherwise not-girl lesbians," a description rather than an alternate flag name. ^[1] Reception in the thread was mostly brief and positive, with a few dismissive replies; none amounts to a documented dispute.

Source Posts

• Reddit · r/lgbt

  Ari (u/Valerie_HazbinHotel)

  I made a flag for lesbians who don't identify as female (I'm a genderfluid lesbian so I wanted a flag to represent me)

  Non-Girl Lesbian Flag (for nonbinary, gender-expansive, and otherwise not-girl lesbians)

  2025-11-27 · 176 upvotes · 56 comments · captured 2026-08-12

  View original post

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

the creator-posted original

• Credit: Design and artwork by Ari (u/Valerie_HazbinHotel); the creator-posted file, preserved unchanged · Reddit, r/lgbt
• Ari's creator-posted original, 27 November 2025, preserved byte-identical to the Reddit source at 1920 × 1080. The unequal narrow stripes and slightly sloping lower boundaries are the posted file's own, an artifact of the program Ari used. ^{[2] [1]} · Credit: Ari (u/Valerie_HazbinHotel) · Reddit, r/lgbt
• Creator-approved line-fixed derivative, redrawn by u/Maximio_Horse, 27 November 2025; underlying design by Ari. Ari asked that the colours stay and the green and yellow remain narrower, and approved the result. Preserved byte-identical to the Imgur file at 1042 × 625. ^{[3] [4] [1]} · Credit: Redrawn by u/Maximio_Horse; underlying design by Ari · ImgurRights No explicit reuse licence located; the uploader's title credits Ari for the underlying design.