#misc flag

hey mel! your suggestion is completed and will be posted shortly!! : D

[Image description for the first image: a flag divided diagonally in two. One half has a orange corner and a dark red stripe; the other half is purple and has a yellow 8-pointed star in the corner.]

[Image description for the second and third images: Flags that look kind of the same as the first image; however, the star has been replaced with a diamond that can also be described as a rotated square. The third image is the second image flipped horizontally.]

Queer: An originally pejorative term that has been embraced and reclaimed by part of the MOGAI/LGBTQIAP+ communities as a symbol of pride, representing individuals who fall out of the gender and orientation “norms”, and who are generally against assimilationist politics.

Color meanings:

Orange: the rejection of assimilation/trying to fit in the norm;

Red: our history of fighting/struggling

Purple: the myriad of different queer identities

Yellow star: individuality; the right to describe ourselves with the terminology we think it’s best for us, for instance

The diagonal lines represent moving, and queer people have frequently been described as avant-garde? Sorry if this doesn’t make sense.

Context: Back when the queer chevrons didn’t exist, I found all options of queer flags pretty awful. The 9-striped ones were meh, the pastel flag wasn’t really representative to me, the gradient one was terrible and the ones that derived from the gradient one were okay, but still kind of weird if we are thinking flags.

Then, I decided to make my own option. A lot of people liked the meanings, but there were concerns regarding similarities to real world flags (since a flag that doesn’t have horizontal stripes and that has a star would stick out like a sore thumb) and color sensivity (it’s hard to use those colors together).

The latter two options are so people could better distinguish this flag from country flags.