Intersex-Inclusive Progress Pride Flag

History

Valentino Vecchietti of Intersex Equality Rights UK designed this variant in 2021, building on Daniel Quasar's Progress Pride Flag by embedding the yellow circle of the Intersex Flag (created by Morgan Carpenter of Intersex Human Rights Australia in 2013). Vecchietti worked in close collaboration with intersex advocates who argued the original Progress flag — focused on race and trans identity — still rendered intersex people invisible. The design was widely shared after Vecchietti posted it on social media in June 2021 and was adopted by UK government departments, the European Parliament, and multiple city governments in its first year. Some intersex advocates have raised concerns that the incorporation into a rainbow flag inadvertently implies intersex status is a sexual orientation rather than a biological variation.

Colors

yellow and purple circle (intersex symbol) added to the Progress Pride chevron

Yellow and purple are the colours of Intersex Human Rights Australia's intersex flag; they were chosen specifically because they carry no gender connotations.

Symbols

intersex circle within chevron

The circle represents wholeness and the right of intersex people to bodily autonomy, placed within the progress chevron to signal inclusion in the broader movement.