Yukon Territory Gay Flag

Overview

The Yukon territorial flag with its green hoist and blue fly replaced by six horizontal rainbow stripes, the white centre panel and the territorial arms left untouched. Greg Gomes published it in the Canadian provincial series of his flag collection and marked it as his own design; the file held here is the one his page served, 362 by 182 pixels. ^[1] No physical example has been documented, and no source records the design being flown in Yukon or anywhere else.

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

LGBTQ

National Context

Canada; Yukon Territory

Creators

The Creator

Attribution notes

This flag is one of the thirteen Canadian provincial and territorial designs, and it carries the symbol Gomes placed before a flag name to mark a design as his own rather than one he catalogued. ^[1] His publication, that marking convention and his reuse terms are set out in the creator record below.

Origin

Digital Origin

Gay Flags of the World (gayflags.biz)

Origin Type

creation place unknown; published online

Physical Origin Status

Not documented.

Represents Yukon. The design was not made there: it was published through a McKinney, Texas post-office address and the place it was drawn is not documented. ^[1]

Indigenous land context

Yukon First Nations — homeland; eleven now self-governing under Final and Self-Government Agreements. The Yukon land claim opened with Together Today for our Children Tomorrow, presented to the Prime Minister in 1973 by leaders of the Yukon Native Brotherhood. The Umbrella Final Agreement of 1993 followed, and eleven Yukon First Nations are now self-governing: Carcross/Tagish, Champagne and Aishihik, Kluane, Kwanlin Dün, Little Salmon/Carmacks, Nacho Nyak Dun, Selkirk, Ta'an Kwäch'än, Teslin Tlingit Council, Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in and Vuntut Gwitchin. ^[4][5]

Colonial / settler context

Yukon is the homeland of Yukon First Nations, and the territory Gomes named has been reshaped by their land claim rather than by federal administration alone. Yukon First Nation leaders presented Together Today for our Children Tomorrow to the Prime Minister in 1973; the Umbrella Final Agreement was signed in 1993 by Canada, the Council for Yukon Indians and the Government of the Yukon, and eleven Yukon First Nations now hold Final Agreements and Self-Government Agreements, concluded between 1993 and 2005. ^[4][5] Treaty 11, signed in 1921 and 1922, covers part of present-day Yukon along with the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. ^[6] Land and resource management passed from Ottawa to the territory on 1 April 2003, under a devolution agreement negotiated with signatory Indigenous groups as well as with the two governments, while this collection was online. ^[7] The arms Gomes retained are the territorial arms carried on the Yukon flag. No source places him in Yukon, identifies him as a resident, or records consultation with any Yukon First Nation. ^[4][5][6][7]

Indigenous engagement

None documented. No source records Gomes consulting, or being asked by, any of the Nations or governments named here.

The flag represents Yukon. Where it was made is not documented. The design was published through Gay Flags of the World (gayflags.biz), run from American Dimensions, PO Box 573, McKinney, Texas, which is a mailing address for the publisher and not evidence of where Gomes lived or worked. No source located places Gomes in Yukon or identifies him as a resident or community member there. ^[1]

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

2002

Published online

Published online by 2002; the collection ran to 2011. No physical use documented.

Creation Bounds

Four different things are recorded here and they are not the same date. The copyright range on Gay Journey begins in 2002, and the site's flag section is in the Internet Archive from 28 October 2002, which bounds the collection rather than this design. ^[1] Collection-level publication is documented from outside the sites twice: Francisco Santos described GayJourney.COM on Flags of the World on 14 May 2003 as carrying "lots of rainbows: from Argentina to Wales, EU, UNO, US states, Canadian provinces and general gay flags," and Richard Knipel wrote again on 14 June 2004. Neither report lists or dates an individual flag. ^[3] Direct documentation of this individual design has not been dated. The Internet Archive index supplied to the archive holds captures of ten of the thirteen Canadian images, all taken on 11 December 2011; this flag's image is not among them. No source dates the design itself, and no flag in the collection carries a date of its own. The year given is the earliest year the collection is documented in publication.

Lineage

Direct predecessors

Rainbow Pride Flag

Sibling flags

Alberta Gay Flag, Straight Ally Pride Flag, Anarcha-Queer Flag (rainbow variant), Argentina Gay Flag, Australia Gay Flag, Brazil Gay Flag

+ 44 more

British Columbia Gay Flag, Canadian Pride Flag, Chicago Pride Flag (Rainbow Stripes, Purple Stars), Chile Gay Flag, Dominican Republic Gay Flag, Egypt Gay Flag, European Union Gay Flag, France Gay Flag, Gay Pride Flag of Pakistan, Heteroflexible Pride Flag, Heterosexual / Straight Pride Flag, Homoflexible Pride Flag, India Gay Flag, Italy Gay Flag, Japan Gay Flag, Jewish Gay Pride Flag, Manitoba Gay Flag, Mexico Gay Flag, Netherlands Gay Flag, New Brunswick Gay Flag, Newfoundland Gay Flag, Northwest Territories Gay Flag, Nova Scotia Gay Flag, Nunavut Gay Flag, Ontario Gay Flag, Palestinian Gay Pride Flag, Panama Gay Flag, Philadelphia Pride Flag, Prince Edward Island Gay Flag, Quebec Gay Flag, Rainbow Flag with White Triangle (Sapporo), Rainbow Israel Flag, Rainbow Polish Flag (2014, Angela Getler), Russia Gay Flag, Saskatchewan Gay Flag, Social Justice Pride Flag, South African Gay Pride Flag, Switzerland Gay Flag, Tanzania Gay Flag, Texas Rainbow Flag, Turkish Gay Pride Flag, Two-Spirit Pride Flag (2005, Zoccole), Two-Spirit Pride Flag (2016 Tumblr documentation), Victory Over AIDS Flag (1980s, designer unknown)

Lineage confidence

high

Two visual sources, one of which the lineage graph can hold and one of which it cannot. The six-stripe Rainbow Pride Flag is a direct Pride-flag parent and is registered as one. The Flag of Yukon is the second visual source, and it is recorded as a structured source-flag relationship in Design rather than as a graph node, because the graph accepts only Encycloflaggia entries and no Pride entry should be invented to create one. The relationship here is: source flag with fields replaced by rainbow stripes. Flags of the World describes the method this whole class of flag follows as "taking an existing flag and 'merging' it with the Rainbow Flag or various GLBT symbols to represent GLBT members of the group the existing flag represents." ^[3] The other Gomes flags are siblings by collection rather than by descent: one designer, one operation, four series published together under one set of terms. A shared designer is a collection relationship and not a substitute for parentage.

Lineage tree

Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 4 records across 4 generations.

Ancestors -3

Original Rainbow Flag (1978)

Ancestors -2

Seven-Stripe Rainbow Flag (1978)

Ancestor

Rainbow Pride Flag

This record

Yukon Territory Gay Flag

Colors & Symbolism

No published statement of meaning has been located. The rainbow is confined to the territorial flag's coloured fields and the arms are untouched, but no source records why.

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

The page gives the flags names and nothing more. ^[1] What the fireweed, the Malamute and the arms mean on the territorial flag is not evidence of what Gomes intended by keeping them.

Placement: the six values run level across both outer panels, and the white centre panel and the arms carry none of them. These are working values sampled from the surviving artwork at the centre of each band, not published specifications; the collection-level note on the recurring Gomes rainbow values is carried in the creator record rather than repeated on each flag.

Design

Aspect Ratio

1:2 · apparent

Ratio Notes

Measured from the recovered artwork, 362 by 182 pixels and 9,332 bytes, the size the page lists. That is the 1:2 of the Yukon territorial flag the design varies. Published as apparent: it is measured from a thumbnail the page served, not from a specification.

Orientation

vertical_triband_with_horizontal_stripes

Stripe Count

6

Layout

territorial_flag_variant

Center Symbol

Coat of arms of Yukon above a wreath of fireweed

Additional Symbols

Alaskan Malamute crest standing on a mound of snow, Fireweed sprays

The recovered artwork is 362 by 182 pixels and 9,332 bytes, the size the page lists. ^[1] Its proportion is 1:2, the proportion of the Yukon territorial flag the design varies. That figure is measured from the image, which is a thumbnail the page served rather than a specification, and is given as apparent for that reason.

No published proportion or construction sheet has been located. The stripe boundaries in the recovered image align across both outer panels, so the rainbow runs level across the flag rather than being fitted separately to each side.

A vertical triband on the pattern of the Yukon territorial flag, with the two outer panels replaced by six horizontal rainbow stripes, red at the top through orange, yellow, green and blue to violet. The centre panel is white and wider than either outer panel, and carries the coat of arms of Yukon: a shield beneath a crest of a standing Alaskan Malamute on a mound of snow, with sprays of fireweed, the territorial flower, curving up on either side below. The white panel and the arms are unchanged from the territorial flag; the substitution is confined to the green hoist and blue fly, which become the rainbow.

Source flag and visual comparison

Source flag

Flag of Yukon

Jurisdiction

Yukon

Relationship

source flag with fields replaced by rainbow stripes

Elements retained

the white centre panel, the Yukon coat of arms, the Alaskan Malamute crest and the fireweed sprays

Elements altered

the green hoist panel and the blue fly panel, both replaced by the six-stripe rainbow

The Yukon flag is a vertical triband of green, white and blue with the territorial arms on the centre panel. Gomes kept the panel and the arms and recoloured only the two outer fields.

Usage & Adoption

Current Status

unknown

No physical use has been documented. The design is known from the designer's own page. ^[1]

Image Archive

Source Flag and Visual Comparison

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

as published by Gay Journey

• Yukon Territory gay flag as published by Greg Gomes on the Gay Journey provincial page. · Credit: Design by Greg Gomes, Gay Journey · Gay Journey, Provincial Gay Flags Of CanadaRights Gay Journey identified the marked designs as Gomes's property and asked that reuse be credited to him and linked back to gay_flags.htm. The credit and the link here are placed to those terms as published; the present rights and contact status have not been independently verified. ^[1]
• Flag of Yukon (Yukon), the source flag for this design. The Yukon flag is a vertical triband of green, white and blue with the territorial arms on the centre panel. Gomes kept the panel and the arms and recoloured only the two outer fields. Relationship: source flag with fields replaced by rainbow stripes. Retained: the white centre panel, the Yukon coat of arms, the Alaskan Malamute crest and the fireweed sprays. Altered: the green hoist panel and the blue fly panel, both replaced by the six-stripe rainbow. · Credit: Wikimedia Commons contributors · Wikimedia CommonsRights Public domain. Wikimedia Commons marks this file with an insignia restriction: it depicts a flag, coat of arms, seal or other official insignia whose use is restricted in many countries independently of copyright. Reproduced here as a comparison for the Gomes design, not as a representation of any government.