Pansexual Pride Flag Redesign (Jesse Gunslinger)

Overview

Proposed as a replacement for the original pansexual flag during a controversy over its creator's alleged views.

In early June 2020 a campaign to replace the original pansexual pride flag, the magenta, yellow and cyan design published anonymously by Jasper in 2010, circulated online. It cited allegations that Jasper held transphobic views. Several alternative flags were proposed during this period, one of them credited to Jesse Gunslinger. The campaign met substantial pushback from pansexual community accounts, which reported that the replacement rested on misinformation about the original flag's stripe meanings and that those promoting it were largely not themselves pansexual. By those accounts the promoters later accepted that they had been wrong about the meanings and about Jasper, and went on circulating the replacement. ^[1] Writing on 26 June 2020, the pansexual community blog posi-pan said the campaigners had taken the stripe meanings from a JPEG circulating online rather than from the flag's creator: they “saw a jpg of the pan flag with inaccurate, transphobic meanings attributed to the stripes and instead of doing research, they assumed it was the actual meaning of the flag from the creator, jasper.” ^[2] LGBTQIA+ Wiki records that the campaigners eventually admitted they were wrong but continued to promote their flag, saying they simply disliked the original. ^[3] The attribution of this particular design to Jesse Gunslinger is unsourced, and no primary posting of it under that name has been recovered.

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

Pansexual people, meaning individuals who experience romantic or sexual attraction regardless of gender.

Subcommunity

pansexual community

Creators

The Creator

Attribution notes

The attribution to Jesse Gunslinger is unsourced, and no primary posting of this design under that name has been recovered. LGBTQIA+ Wiki instead attributes the most widely promoted of the second round of 2020 replacement designs to a now suspended Twitter user, _Dream_Cheese_. ^[3]

The dispute the design belongs to is documented. A campaign began at the beginning of June 2020 to replace the pansexual flag with a six striped version, on the grounds that the original carried transphobic stripe meanings. Writing on 26 June 2020, the pansexual community blog posi-pan said the campaigners had taken those meanings from a JPEG circulating online rather than from the flag's creator, Jasper: they “saw a jpg of the pan flag with inaccurate, transphobic meanings attributed to the stripes and instead of doing research, they assumed it was the actual meaning of the flag from the creator, jasper.” ^[2] LGBTQIA+ Wiki records that the campaigners eventually admitted they were wrong but continued to promote their flag. After Jasper tweeted support for bi lesbians later that month, a second campaign began and many further designs were proposed. ^[3]

Origin

Digital Origin

Yes

Digital origin; no verified physical location.

Created online in 2020 during a broader campaign to replace the original pansexual flag.

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

2020

Period in Use

2020-present

The flag has not achieved recognition beyond niche design discussions and lacks adoption by major pride organizations or the broader pansexual community.

The 2010 flag by Jasper remains the dominant and most widely recognised pansexual pride flag. More than one alternative circulated in 2020, including a six-stripe design attributed to a since-suspended Twitter account. A second wave of replacement attempts followed later in June 2020 after Jasper posted support for bi lesbians. ^[4][1] LGBTQIA+ Wiki names that account as _Dream_Cheese_ and separates the six striped flag of the first campaign from a distinct exclusionist pansexual flag produced by the second, noting that many designs were proposed. ^[3]

Lineage

Direct predecessors

Pansexual Pride Flag

Sibling flags

Chicago Pansexual Pride, Demipansexual Pride Flag (2016, Pride-Flags), Jewish Pansexuality Pride Flag, Panromantic Pride Flag, Polysexual Pride Flag

Proposed as an alternative to the original pansexual pride flag by Jasper V. The color palette (green, yellow, orange) departs entirely from the original's magenta, yellow, and cyan.

Lineage tree

Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 2 records across 2 generations.

Ancestor

Pansexual Pride Flag

This record

Pansexual Pride Flag Redesign (Jesse Gunslinger)

Colors & Symbolism

An alternative pansexual pride symbol in green, yellow and orange, departing entirely from the magenta, yellow and cyan of the 2010 design. No creator-issued account of the palette has been located.

Approximated values from circulating images.

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

No creator-issued stripe meanings have been located for this design. Readings that circulate on flag reference sites and wikis are community-attributed and are not recorded here as the designer's. The 2010 pansexual flag's own colour reasoning, published on its blog in August 2010, is not carried over into this palette.

Hex values are approximations from circulating images. No creator-issued color specifications have been found.

Design

Aspect Ratio

3:5 · standard

Ratio Notes

No ratio is documented for this design. The archive's standard production ratio is shown instead.

Orientation

horizontal

Stripe Count

6

Layout

horizontal stripes

Stripes (Top → Bottom)

green, light green, yellow, light orange, orange, dark orange

Six horizontal stripes in green, yellow and orange tones. The stripe colours and proportions given here are read from circulating images; no source file or original posting has been recovered. The colours do not match the published descriptions of the 2020 six striped pansexual flag, which give it the original flag's palette: INTO writes that it “takes the three colors from the original flag and dulls them down” ^[5], and posi-pan describes “the pan flag but with six stripes”, two for each colour ^[2]. LGBTQIA+ Wiki separates the six striped flag of the first campaign from a distinct “exclusionist pansexual flag” produced by the second, and notes that many designs were proposed. ^[3] Which of those, if any, this design is has not been established.

Six equal horizontal stripes transitioning from green at the top through yellow in the middle to orange at the bottom.

Usage & Adoption

Online Usage

Niche online design discussions

Current Status

rare

Has not achieved recognition beyond niche design discussions. The original pansexual flag remains dominant.

Image Archive

Flag design

Discourse & Debates

• Whether the original pansexual flag should be replaced at all, given that the allegations about its creator were disputed and later partially retracted.
• Broader debate about whether a flag's legitimacy is tied to the character or identity of its creator.

Common misidentifications

• May be confused with other 2020 pansexual flag alternatives, including the dulled-down six-stripe version and the _Dream_Cheese_ design.

Criticisms

• Pansexual community accounts of the June 2020 episode reported that the replacement campaign rested on misinformation about the original flag's stripe meanings. ^[1]
• @PansexualityOrg wrote on 25 June 2020 that the replacement "was created and promoted in bad faith by non-pan people". Whether individual designers identified as pansexual is not independently established here.

Pansexuality refers to romantic or sexual attraction regardless of gender. The term is sometimes debated in relation to bisexuality, though pansexual community members generally describe the two as distinct but overlapping identities.

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

Jesse Gunslinger 2020 original

• The Pansexual Pride Flag Redesign (Jesse Gunslinger). Colors are approximated from circulating images. · SVG reconstruction