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So my queer platonic partner and I couldn’t find a version of the intersex inclusive progress pride flag that used the original eight-stripe rainbow flag and as a result we decided to make one because we feel that sex and magic deserve to be explicitly recognized as an important part of the queer experience and we also highly value the explicit inclusion and focusing of marginalized communities by the progress flag The components of the flag and some information on their histories are below:

The original, eight-striped Rainbow LGBTQ pride flag, designed by Gilbert Baker, in 1978. The Stripes and their meanings are:

Hot Pink (Hot Pink if the color makes it hard to read on your screen): Sex (Removed in 1978 due to unavailability of correctly colored fabric)

Red (Red): Life

Orange (Orange): Healing

Yellow (Yellow): Sunlight

Green (Green): Nature

Turquoise (Turquoise): Magic/Art (Merged with indigo as a blue stripe in 1979 to make the number of colors even)

Indigo (Indigo): Serenity (Merged with turquoise as a blue stripe in 1979 retaining the serenity label from indigo or sometimes re-labeled as harmony/peace)

Violet (Violet): Spirit

The progress pride flag chevrons, implemented atop the six color flag by Daniel Quasar in 2018. Xe added chevrons representing marginalized identities and the left-to-right (or hoist-to-fly on a flag) point represents forward movement and that progress still needs to be made. The stripes and their meanings are:

White (White): Non-binary, agender, intersex, and transitioning trans people (adapted from the trans pride flag designed by Monica Helms in 1999 - defined as “for those who are intersex, transitioning or consider themselves having a neutral or undefined gender.” )

Light Pink (Light Pink): Transfeminine people (The traditional color for baby girls in the Monica Helms 1999 flag)

Light Blue (Light Blue): Transmasculine people (The traditional color for baby boys in the Monica Helms 1999 flag)

Brown (Brown): Marginalized people of color

Black (Black): Marginalized people of color as well as “those living with AIDS, those no longer living, and the stigma surrounding them.” (quoted portion directly borrows Daniel Quasar’s wording from xyr 2018 kickstarter.)

The intersex pride chevron, added to the progress flag design by Valentino Vecchietti in 2021 implementing the design of the intersex pride flag by Morgan Carpenter of Intersex Human Rights Australia in July 2013 as another chevron in the progress motif. The intersex flag uses yellow (yellow) and purple (purple) as long regarded intersex colors and an “unbroken and unornamented” circle to symbolize “wholeness and completeness, and our potentialities.” (Morgan’s wording quoted from his description of the flag)