Toric Pride Flag (2017, diamoricmlm-and-nblm)
Identity Pride Flag ·
A flag for toric identity, a nonbinary person attracted to men, attributed to the Tumblr user diamoricmlm-and-nblm and dated 17 October 2017, a week after the trixic flag it answers. [1] Five horizontal bands, purple and lilac above and two greens below for being nonbinary, a light teal band at the centre for attraction to men, with overlapping nonbinary and Mars symbols on the field. [1] Toric comes from the Latin agent-noun suffix -tor, as in cantor, whose feminine counterpart -trix gives trixic its name, and was coined as the nonbinary counterpart of achillean. [2]
Key facts
- Designer
- diamoricmlm-and-nblm (Tumblr handle)
- Created
- First documented public use
- In use
- 2017 to present
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · standard
- Stripes
- 5
- Represented Identity
- toric
Also known as
- Quadrisian Flag
- NBLM Flag
Archive categories Sexual & Romantic Orientation Pride Flags
Overview
To provide a dedicated visual symbol for toric identity, representing nonbinary people who experience attraction to men. The flag completed the trixic/toric/enbian triad of nonbinary orientation flags. [1]
The toric pride flag was created on October 17, 2017 by Tumblr user diamoricmlm-and-nblm. [1] The flag was part of a broader effort during 2016 to 2017 to create orientation-specific flags for nonbinary people. The enbian flag (August 25, 2016) came first, followed by the trixic flag (October 10, 2017) and then this toric flag one week later.
Identity & Context
- Represented Identity
- toric
- Subcommunity
- nonbinary orientation
Creators
The Creator
diamoricmlm-and-nblm
Designer
diamoricmlm-and-nblm is a pseudonymous Tumblr handle credited as the designer of the toric pride flag, posted on October 17, 2017. [1] No biographical information about the person behind the handle has been verified.
Motivations
- To create a visual symbol for toric identity, giving nonbinary people attracted to men a distinct flag. [1]
bigendering
Published the coinage of the term toric
The Tumblr blog that introduced the words toric and trixic, in a single post giving both definitions and four usage examples. It presents the coinage as a group’s work rather than its own: "There’s been some demand for m-spec inclusive terms for nonbinary people who like men and nonbinary people who like women, so in a discord server we came up with the words toric and trixic." [3] No other participant is named in the post. The blog designed no flag; the toric flag came three months later from a different person. [3][1]
There’s been some demand for m-spec inclusive terms for nonbinary people who like men and nonbinary people who like women, so in a discord server we came up with the words toric and trixic.
Toric: used to describe a nonbinary person who is attracted to, interested in, or in a relationship with men/boys, exclusively or not. Toric can also be used to describe relationships between nonbinary people and men/boys.
Motivations
- Demand for terms that did not assume a binary partner: "There’s been some demand for m-spec inclusive terms for nonbinary people who like men and nonbinary people who like women". [3]
Attribution notes
The flag is attributed to the Tumblr user diamoricmlm-and-nblm, who posted the design on 17 October 2017. [1] The term is older and belongs to other people. It was coined collectively alongside trixic: the post that introduced both says "in a discord server we came up with the words toric and trixic", and was published on the Tumblr blog bigendering. [3] Everyone in that Discord besides the blog is unnamed there, and the flag’s designer is not among the people documented as having coined the word. The flag arrived one week after the trixic pride flag of 10 October 2017 and about fourteen months after the enbian flag of 25 August 2016, completing the nonbinary orientation flag triad.
Origin
- Digital Origin
- Tumblr
No verified physical origin location. Without a confirmed location, Indigenous land context cannot be attributed.
Originated on Tumblr. No physical location of creation is documented. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Exact date
- First public use
- Period in Use
- 2017 to present
The diamoricmlm-and-nblm design is the version most often reproduced in nonbinary orientation flag guides. [1] A four-band redesign by the Reddit user frcgdad_ in September 2020 was published by Pride-Flags in March 2021 as yellow, white, teal and dark blue, alongside a matching trixic flag from the same maker. [2] An anonymous wiki version of April 2021 bears a Sweet William flower. [1]
Toric is part of a triad of nonbinary orientation terms alongside trixic (nonbinary attraction to women) and enbian (nonbinary attraction to nonbinary people). These three terms and their flags collectively provide a framework for describing the orientation of nonbinary people without defaulting to binary-gendered orientation labels.
Lineage
The toric flag uses purple and green to signal nonbinary identity (echoing the nonbinary flag's palette) and teal/blue for attraction to men. It is a natural sibling to the trixic and enbian flags, which together provide a nonbinary orientation flag vocabulary. [1]
Colors & Symbolism
The flag represents toric identity, the experience of being a nonbinary person attracted to men. The color scheme moves from purple through pink/lilac and teal to green, with purple and green anchoring nonbinary identity on both ends and teal in the center marking attraction to men. The overlapping nonbinary and Mars symbols reinforce this dual meaning. [1]
| Colour | Hex | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Purple | #B553CC | Being nonbinary. [1] |
| Lilac/pink | #DCA0DC | Being nonbinary (lighter transitional shade). [1] |
| Light teal | #AEEEED | Attraction to men. [1] |
| Light green | #99FB97 | Being nonbinary. [1] |
| Dark green | #7BCD7B | Being nonbinary. [1] |
color-hex.com community palette, not creator-published. [1]
This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.
- Overlapping nonbinary and male (Mars) symbols in center
- The overlapping symbols represent the intersection of nonbinary identity and attraction to men that defines toric experience. [1]
Color meanings are as documented on the LGBTQIA+ Wiki. Purple and green represent being nonbinary, and blue/teal represents attraction to men. [1]
The five values originate in a color-hex.com community palette rather than in any file from the designer. [1] They agree with the artwork published here for the flag, which measures #B453CC, #DCA0DD, #AEEEED, #99FB98 and #7BCD7B, every difference being a single unit in a single channel and consistent with lossy compression. That makes the table and the picture consistent with each other; it does not make either creator-published.
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · standard
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 5
- Layout
- stripes_with_emblem
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- Purple (#B553CC), Lilac/pink (#DCA0DC), Light teal (#AEEEED), Light green (#99FB97), Dark green (#7BCD7B)
- Center Symbol
- Overlapping nonbinary and male (Mars) symbols
Five horizontal stripes arranged top to bottom: purple, lilac/pink, light teal, light green, dark green. Overlapping nonbinary and male (Mars) symbols are centered on the flag.
Five horizontal stripes with overlapping nonbinary and Mars symbols centered on the field. Not a stripes-only design.
A pride flag for toric identity consisting of five horizontal stripes in purple (#B553CC), lilac/pink (#DCA0DC), light teal (#AEEEED), light green (#99FB97), and dark green (#7BCD7B) from top to bottom, with overlapping nonbinary and male (Mars) symbols centered on the flag. Purple and green stripes represent being nonbinary, and the teal stripe represents attraction to men. The center symbols reinforce the intersection of nonbinary identity and attraction to men. [1]
Usage & Adoption
- Online Usage
- Reproduced in nonbinary orientation flag guides including the LGBTQIA+ Wiki. [1]
- Current Status
- Documented online circulation; the design rests on a single reference source
The diamoricmlm-and-nblm design is the most commonly circulated version, though alternate designs exist. [1]
Discourse & Debates
Common misidentifications
- Toric is sometimes confused with gay or vincian identity. Toric specifically describes the attraction of nonbinary people to men, whereas gay and vincian are typically used by men attracted to men.
- Treated as a single design. The four-band redesign by the Reddit user frcgdad_ in September 2020, yellow, white, teal and dark blue, is one design in two colourways with that person's trixic flag of the same date, which is yellow, white, pink and purple. The entries record the two redesigns separately. [2]
The coining post introduces toric and trixic together and presents both as a group’s work: "There’s been some demand for m-spec inclusive terms for nonbinary people who like men and nonbinary people who like women, so in a discord server we came up with the words toric and trixic." [3] It defines toric as "used to describe a nonbinary person who is attracted to, interested in, or in a relationship with men/boys, exclusively or not", and adds that the word also describes the relationships themselves. [3] Toric describes a nonbinary person attracted to men. It comes from the Latin suffix -tor, which forms masculine agent nouns such as cantor; the feminine counterpart of that suffix, -trix, gives trixic its name, so the two terms are a deliberate pair rather than two unrelated coinages. [2] Quadrisian is an older synonym. The abbreviation is NBLM, nonbinary loving men; exclusive attraction to men may also be called viramoric; the converse term, for a man attracted to nonbinary people, is astroidian. [2][4] Pride-Flags describes toric as "a diamoric orientation" and as "created as a non-binary equivalent of achillean". [2]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 4 sources
- 1. Toric. LGBTQIA+ Wiki. Accessed 2026-04-26
Supplies the designer, the date and the colour meanings. Not reachable from this environment at the time of writing.
- 2. Designer page Toric / Quadrisian / NBLM (3). Pride-Flags. DeviantArt (2021-03-29). Accessed 2026-08-16
Gives the etymology and the surrounding vocabulary, and publishes the 2020 redesign credited "Flag by /u/frcgdad_".
- 3. Social media Toric and Trixic. bigendering. Tumblr (bigendering) (2017). Accessed 2026-08-16
The post that introduced both terms, with the definitions and four usage examples. Describes the coinage as a group’s work in a Discord server. It carries no flag.
- 4. Designer page Toric/Quadrisian or Astroidian symbol. Pride-Flags. DeviantArt (2020-07-26). Accessed 2026-08-16
Defines astroidian, the converse term.
Image Sources
- Rendering
- diamoricmlm-and-nblm (2017)
- Credit: Tomislav Todorović / Flags of the WorldRights Rendering by Tomislav Todorović for Flags of the World, which asserts copyright over its pages and their images. No reuse licence is stated and none has been sought; published at the site owner’s direction with the rights status recorded as undetermined. It is a rendering of the design, not a photograph of a flag in use.