Bisexual Pride Flag

History

Michael Page designed the Bisexual Pride Flag in 1998 and launched it at BiCafe, an early online bisexual community. Page wanted bisexual people to have a distinct flag separate from the general rainbow flag, which he felt made bisexual identity invisible. He drew on the 'biangles' symbol — overlapping pink and blue triangles used in bisexual spaces since the 1980s — to derive his colour palette. The flag was slow to gain visibility before social media amplified it in the 2010s. Today it is one of the most widely recognised orientation flags after the rainbow, used by Pride events, governments, and advocacy organisations globally.

Colors

pink, purple, blue

Pink represents attraction to the same gender; blue represents attraction to a different gender; the purple overlap represents attraction regardless of gender.

Symbols

three horizontal stripes in 2:1:2 ratio

The narrower purple centre stripe represents the blending of the two broader stripes — not a lesser identity but an intersection.