pride flag

English

Noun

pride flag (plural pride flags)

1. (LGBTQ) The rainbow flag or variants of it.
   • 1999, David Andrusia, Frommer's Gay & Lesbian Europe‎, page 18:

     Later that week, a group of smiling Czechs appeared on the cover of the Prague Post, with one of the supporters waving a pride flag over his head.

   • 2008, Sarah Sentilles, A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit‎, page 203:

     Eve thought her church should fly a pride flag, the rainbow flag that has been a symbol of gay pride for decades.

   • 2014 February 10, Marco Vigliotti, “Province shows its Olympic pride”, in Metro Saskatoon, page 1:

     Premier Brad Wall confirmed on Saturday that the pride flag would fly at the [Saskatchewan] legislature in a show of solidarity with LGBT activists in Russia.

2. (LGBTQ) Any flag intended to represent a specific subset of the LGBT+ community.
   • 2016, Faith Cheltenham, "The Case for Bisexuals at Pride", Mirror, Summer 2015, page 26:

     "It will be such an honor to ride with Woody [Glen] through the streets of Boston — wearing tiaras, of course — with the 45-foot bi pride flag and dozens of bi community members behind us,” [Ellyn] Ruthstrom says.

   • 2016, Trent Wilkie, "Trans Flag Raised At Leg", in "News Roundup", Vue Weekly, 24 November 2016 - 30 November 2016, page 5:

     The Trans Equality Society of Alberta (TESA) celebrated Alberta's first-ever formal raising of a trans pride flag at the Alberta Legislature […]

   • 2019 September 25, Amy Qin, “Mob Lets Pride Fly In Baylor Show”, in The Rice Thresher, Rice University, Houston, TX, page 1:

     During the halftime show, students carried eight different pride flags onto the field, representing the asexual, transgender, nonbinary, intersex, gay, lesbian, bisexual and pansexual communities […]

See also

• Progress Pride flag