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The Non-Binary Flag

The Non-Binary Flag is a pride flag that represents the Non-Binary community. It was designed by Kye Rowan in 2014.

The non-binary flag consists of four equally-sized horizontal bars: yellow, white, purple, and black. The yellow stripe represents people outside the gender binary. The white stripe represents people with multiple genders. The purple stripe represents people who identify specifically as a blend of male and female. The black stripe represents agender people.

The design of both the genderqueer flag and the nonbinary flag include the color lavender (purple) in reference to LGBTQ+ history. The word lavender had long been used to refer to the gay community. A 1935 dictionary of slang included the phrase "a streak of lavender" meaning a person who was regarded as effeminate. A different-gender marriage where both parties were assumed to be gay was called a lavender marriage. The Lavender Scare was a moral panic in the mid-20th century, where LGBTQ+ people were dismissed en masse from their jobs with the United States government. Expressions used by the LGBTQ+ community are sometimes referred to as lavender linguistics.

History 

Kye Rowan created the pride flag for non-binary people in February 2014 to represent people with genders beyond the male/female binary. The flag was not intended to replace the queergender flag, which was created by Marilyn Roxie in 2011, but to be flown alongside it, and many believe it was intended to represent people who did not feel adequately represented by the genderqueer flag.