shadowgay , shadowlesbian , shadowstraight , shadowturian , and shadowenbian !

Official Flag (left), Original Flag (right)

Shadowgay is the umbrella term for shadowlesbian, shadowfloric, shadowenbian, and other shadow- labels that are queer.

Includes trans/nonbinary people who feels semi-connection to a certain label despite dysphoria or not being the gender the label usually pertains to. Being _LW; _LM; _LNB and/or _LX, etc, and feeling attraction to the same/similar gender as oneself but not necessarily being that gender or being dysphoric about being considered that gender.

It also includes those with fluid and/or flux orientations, who may not 100% identify with certain label due to either not being those labels often, or simply due to a disconnect. This could also include labels where your attraction feels both queer and non-queer, or fluid between the two.

This term was originally reposted on June 27th, 2022.

So years (July 19th 2020) ago I coined the Shadow- terms on my original mogai blog. Since then I’ve deleted that blog and one-half of the Shadow- terms do not have rebloggable posts out there, so I decided I’d repost the terms.

A while after (February 28th 2021) another tumblr user (@/thepokedexisgay) decided to make simpler alternate flags to these terms. I’ll be posting a link to their flags at the bottom of these posts.

I made the original flags based off of my original all inclusive lesbian/gay/vincian/etc. flags, and since I’ve remade those and posted them, I figured I’d remake the Shadow- flags as well, simplifying them and following the color schemes of my new flags. So yeah, some “official” flags for these terms.

That being said, I made the new Shadowgay flag based off of my Prairie Gay flag, so along with that if you ID as Shadowqueer/ShadowQ4G or whoever else I mentioned could use the Prairie Gay flag, you can also use this flag if you feel your orientation is Shadow-.

(I’d prefer people use these flags as the official versions versus the originals, however if u personally like the other flags whether it’s Alois’s (thepokedexisgay) or the original ones, or feel like making your own based on an alternate lesbian/veldian/enbian/etc. flag, feel free to go on ahead.)

Yes, most of the definition in this post was ripped directly from the LGBTA wiki, with some changes to it due to my current knowledge of labels. Here is a link to the alternative flag made by @/thepokedexisgay, and here is the [link] to the Shadowgay page on the LGBTA wiki.

Some more shadow- flags, some at the request of an anon. Two of them are redesigns, the others I’m pretty sure are new

I made alternative names/flags for shadowenbian, shadowlesbian, and shadowfloric/turian in the event that someone is more comfortable with that

@neopronouns @libragender @genderstalgia @mogai-monarchs @kenochoric @cinnamogai @variant-archive hope it’s okay to tag you again