The Progress Pride flag has become one of the most recognizable symbols of LGBTQ+ visibility, but it's also one of the most misunderstood — mostly because it's visually more complex than the original rainbow flag, and a lot of people have never had the different elements explained. Let's dive in!
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| Quasar's pride flag, known as "progress pride flag" |
The flag was designed in 2018 by Daniel Quasar, a non-binary artist, as a deliberate evolution of Gilbert Baker's original 1978 rainbow flag. Quasar didn't want to replace the rainbow - they wanted to add layers of meaning that the original six stripes couldn't fully capture on their own.
Here's what each part represents:
The six horizontal stripes (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple) are the traditional pride colors, standing for life, healing, sunlight, nature, harmony, and spirit - the symbolism Baker intended in the original design.
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| Baker's original design for the pride flag |
The five-striped chevron on the left adds newer layers: black and brown represent marginalized LGBTQ+ communities of color, with black also honoring those living with or lost to AIDS and light blue, pink, and white are taken directly from the transgender pride flag, designed by Monica Helms in 1999.
The arrow shape of the chevron is intentional too - it points forward, symbolizing progress that still needs to be made, rather than progress that's already finished.
Since its creation, some versions have added an additional purple circle on a yellow triangle, representing intersex individuals - this is often called the "Progress Pride flag with intersex-inclusive flag" or simply the Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride flag.
Because there are multiple accepted variations in circulation, it's genuinely one of the trickier flags to get exactly right in video and graphic work. Unlike a country flag that evolves and only have one official version at a set time, different pride flags are used by communities nowaday. That's part of why we included several distinct pride and community flags in our Pride pack, built and checked individually rather than treating "pride flag" as one single, interchangeable symbol. We have several pride flags to go from individual group (gay men, intersex people, aromantic etc...) to the most rassembling community (intersex inclusive progress pride flag).
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| Promotional picture of our Pride Package, including 13 pride flags |
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