qPoC/tPoC White Cishet Ally Flag
Ally Pride Flag · Published on the wiki 22 January 2021
An ally flag for white cishet people supporting Queer and trans people of colour: vertical rainbow and transgender bands mirrored about a central rainbow column, crossed by brown bands between black rules, with a nested black-to-white chevron rising from the lower edge. The LGBTA Fandom Wiki credits the design to William and dates it to 22 January 2021; the file was published there the same day. [1]
Key facts
- Designer
- William, attributed by LGBTA Wiki
- Earliest located publication
- Documented record
- Published on the wiki 22 January 2021
- Aspect Ratio
- 124:123 · apparent
Also known as
- qPoC/tPoC Ally Flag
- PoC/tPoC Ally Flag
Status Proposed
Archive categories Ally and Solidarity Pride Flags
Overview
To show white cishet support for Queer and trans people and for people of colour, as the wiki article states it. [1]
The article's stated purpose for the design is “in order for white cishets to show support to not only transgender and queer people, but support to POC and the struggles they go through”. [1]
Creators
The Creator
William
Attributed designer
Known only from the wiki's Allies article, which credits this design and a polyamorous ally flag published the previous day to the same name. No post, account or further detail has been located, and neither credit carries a footnote on a page that footnotes ten other ally-flag claims. [2] [1]
Motivations
- For white cishet people to show support to transgender and Queer people and to people of colour [1]
Attribution notes
The LGBTA Fandom Wiki's Allies article credits the design to William: “The PoC/tPoC ally flag was also created by William, in order for white cishets to show support to not only transgender and queer people, but support to POC and the struggles they go through.” [1] Nothing further about William is documented, and no post, account or statement by that person has been located. The gallery caption beside the image, “The qPoC/tPoC white cishet ally flag.”, credits no one. [1]
The same article credits a different name, Cryptocrew, in the captions of two other ally flags in the same gallery, and no source read equates the two names. [1] The uploader of the image file is not recorded: the Fandom original has been deleted, and on the successor wiki the only revision is an import by AgentBot, a bot, on 21 January 2022. [3] Designer, uploader and later host are therefore three separate roles here, and only the first is named by a source.
The wiki refers to William with she/her. That is the wiki's usage, not a statement by the designer, no post or account having been located. Its Allies page footnotes ten of its ally-flag claims to archived posts; neither sentence about William is among them, while the sentence immediately after them carries a reference. [2]
Origin
No place of creation is recorded. The earliest located publication is a wiki file, which fixes a platform rather than a place. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Earliest located publication
- Documented record
- Published on the wiki 22 January 2021; adoption not established
- Creation Bounds
- The image file was published on the LGBTA Fandom Wiki on 22 January 2021 at 09:10:06 UTC, the revision timestamp carried in the file's own URL on the archived page. [1] The wiki's article separately states that the design “was coined on January 22nd, 2021”, without citing anything. [1] The two agree, but they are different kinds of evidence: one is a file timestamp, the other the article's own assertion. When the design was drawn is not documented. The file was later imported to the LGBTQIA+ Wiki on 21 January 2022. [3]
The design is documented through wiki publication and later wiki circulation. The LGBTA Fandom Wiki page that carried it, captured on 23 November 2021, is the earliest surviving version located; the Fandom file itself now returns 404 and the design survives through the copy imported to the LGBTQIA+ Wiki on 21 January 2022. [1] [3] The article names the flag two ways on the same page: “The PoC/tPoC ally flag” in the prose and “The qPoC/tPoC white cishet ally flag” in the gallery caption. [1]
Lineage
No source read states what this design was built from, so no parentage is recorded. The nested chevron is the device the ally flags share, and the brown and black bands are the device the Philadelphia Pride Flag introduced and the Progress Pride Flag carried on, but resemblance is not a derivation statement and neither is drawn as an edge. [1]
Colors & Symbolism
| Colour | Hex | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Rainbow red | #F22C25 | Measured from the 744 by 738 pixel file. [3] |
| Rainbow orange | #F2801C | Measured from the file. [3] |
| Rainbow yellow | #F2DE00 | Measured from the file. [3] |
| Rainbow green | #54C900 | Measured from the file. [3] |
| Rainbow blue | #1CA7F2 | Measured from the file. [3] |
| Rainbow purple | #9F2AF2 | Measured from the file. [3] |
| Transgender blue | #9AD7EE | Measured from the file. [3] |
| Transgender pink | #EE939F | Measured from the file. [3] |
| White | #F9FFFA | Measured from the file; not a pure white. [3] |
| Dark brown | #510D09 | Measured from the file; the hoist end of the crossing band. [3] |
| Mid brown | #7B3521 | Measured from the file; the two central segments of the crossing band. [3] |
| Light brown | #C07733 | Measured from the file; the fly end of the crossing band. [3] |
| Black | #000000 | Measured from the file; the rules and the outer chevron. [3] |
| Chevron tone 2 | #1A1A1A | Measured from the file. [3] |
| Chevron tone 3 | #3D3D3D | Measured from the file. [3] |
| Chevron tone 4 | #949494 | Measured from the file. [3] |
| Chevron tone 5 | #DCDDD2 | Measured from the file; the innermost, near-white. [3] |
This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.
No creator-authored symbolism key has been located. The article gives the design's purpose but publishes no reading of its colours or of the chevron. [1] The elements are recognisable, but assigning meanings to them from other flags that use them would be inference rather than documentation, and none is recorded here.
No palette has been published for this design. These values are measured from the only located file, a 744 by 738 pixel PNG. The image is antialiased, so edges between elements carry intermediate values; the seventeen listed here are the flat fills. They are measurements of one artifact, not a creator's specification. [3]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 124:123 · apparent
- Orientation
- near-square
- Layout
- mirrored vertical bands crossed by horizontal bands, with a nested chevron
- Additional Symbols
- a nested chevron rising from the lower edge in five tones, the A of the ally flags
Measured from the 744 by 738 pixel file. Nine vertical bands, symmetric about the centre: a rainbow column at each edge, then the transgender flag's blue, pink and white on each side, and a rainbow column at the middle. The rainbow columns carry red, orange and yellow above the crossing bands and green, blue and purple below them. Across the middle, between black rules, run three brown tones that lighten from hoist to fly. Over the lower half sits a chevron with its apex at y 280, nested in five tones from black at the outside to near-white at the middle, each separated by a thin black rule; its legs reach the bottom edge without reaching the corners. [3]
Usage & Adoption
- Current Status
- Wiki-documented proposal; no located adoption
The design is documented through wiki publication and later wiki circulation. No physical, organisational or event use has been located in the sources used for this entry. [1] [3]
Discourse & Debates
qPoC and tPoC abbreviate Queer people of colour and trans people of colour. The article's prose drops the q from the name its own caption uses. [1]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 3 sources
Encyclopedias & Reference
- 1. Allies. LGBTA Fandom Wiki contributors. LGBTA Fandom Wiki. Accessed 2026-08-16 · Archived version
The earliest located version of the article that carries this design, captured 23 November 2021, before the material moved to the successor wiki. Supplies the credit to William, the stated purpose, the 22 January 2021 date, the gallery caption and the file's own revision timestamp. The live article no longer carries the design.
- 2. Allies. LGBTQIA+ Wiki contributors. LGBTQIA+ Wiki. Accessed 2026-08-16 · Archived version
The successor wiki's version of the article, carrying the design forward. Read through the Internet Archive; the live site refuses requests from this network. The wiki carries a standing notice that many of its pages “come from a time when resourcing was not required”.
Image file page
- 3. File:Qpoc-tpoc ally flag.png. LGBTQIA+ Wiki (2022-01-21). Accessed 2026-08-16 · Archived version
The file record for the only located artifact: 744 by 738 pixels, 34 KB, uploaded 02:40 on 21 January 2022 by AgentBot with the comment “Imported from LGBTA Fandom Wiki”. Read through the Internet Archive.
Image Sources
- Credit: LGBTQIA+ Wiki, imported from the LGBTA Fandom Wiki by AgentBotRights The LGBTQIA+ Wiki makes its page content available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. That covers the wiki page; it does not settle the artwork's underlying rights, and no image-maker is named beyond the designer credited in the article text.