Bi-sexual Flag, 3x5 feet, Discover the History of the Bi-sexual Flag

The bisexual flag, also called the bisexual pride flag, is a pride flag representing bisexuality, bisexual individuals and the bisexual community. According to Michael Page, the activist who created the flag based on a color palette designed by Liz Nania, the pink stripe represents attraction to same or similar sexes/genders, while the blue stripe represents attraction to different sexes/genders. The purple stripe, the resulting "overlap" of the blue and pink stripes, represents attraction to all sexes/genders or attraction regardless of sex/gender.

Page designed the flag to increase the visibility of bisexuals among society as a whole and within the LGBTQ community. He aimed to give the bisexual community a symbol that is comparable to the rainbow flag for the greater LGBTQ community. The first bisexual pride flag was unveiled at the BI Cafe's first anniversary party on December 5, 1998.

Page stated that he took the colors and overlap for the flag from biangles, symbol of bisexuality. The biangles symbol of bisexuality was designed by artist Liz Nania as she co-organized a bisexual contingent for the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987. The design of the biangles began with the pink triangle, a Nazi concentration camp badge that later became a symbol of gay liberation. The addition of a blue triangle contrasts the pink and represents heterosexuality. The two triangles overlap and form lavender, which represents the "queerness of bisexuality", referencing the Lavender Menace of the 1980s.

Page described the meaning of the pink, purple, and blue colors:

The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (gay and lesbian). The blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (straight) and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes (bi). The key to understanding the symbolism of the Bi Pride Flag is to know that the purple pixels of color blend unnoticeably into both the pink and blue, just as in the 'real world,' where bi people blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.

Since the original design, the purple overlap has been reinterpreted and is now widely understood to represent attraction regardless of sex or gender.