Created by Erin Ptah on 26 June 2018.
Unveiled at leifandthorn.com.
Definition
“Someone, who can be transgender or cisgender, who generally
considers themself a woman who is attracted to other women.”
– The Transgender Language Primer. See the full lesbian
definition.
Style Guide
This flag has 5 even horizontal stripes which are colored (top to bottom): dark pink (#C41A71), pink (#FFA6DA), pale yellow (#FDF0C5), lavender (#C48AD2), blue-black (#091542).
Meaning
Pink stripes:
- Shoutout to the gradient design of the lipstick lesbian flag; represents femme lesbians
- There’s two of them to represent pride in f/f couples
- And to represent the harmony between “liking women” and “being a woman”
- And, because the lighter shade echoes the pink from the trans pride flag, to represent that this includes both cis lesbians & trans lesbians
Pale yellow stripe:
- Echoes the nonbinary and intersex flags, to represent that this includes nonbinary & intersex lesbians
- Echoes the middle stripe in the pan flag, to represent our attraction to nonbinary lesbians
- It’s a sandy, beachy shade of yellow, because Lesbos is an island
Lavender stripe:
- Shoutout to the color of the lesbian labrys flag
- Honoring the reclamation of the “lavender menace” symbolism
- Represents the importance of lesbians being feminists, and lesbian issues being part of feminism
Blue-black stripe:
- This one’s for the butch lesbians
- It’s at the base of the flag because it’s buff enough to hold all the other stripes up
- I experimented with plain #000 as another shoutout to the labrys flag, but a brighter stripe worked better with all the other colors, which represents how when all different kinds of lesbians band together we look awesome
About the Creator
Erin Ptah (She/her) was raised in Maryland. She is a chapstick lesbian, cartoonist, geek, secular humanist, and cat person. Her webcomics are Leif & Thorn and But I’m A Cat Person.
Read more in our Interview: Creator of the Lesbian Community Pride Flag
Sources
Lesbian Community Fag unveiling