Flags Importer Genderqueer Pride Flag 3' x 5' Polyester

Lavender, white and green: three plain, equal stripes that have stood for genderqueer people since writer and designer Marilyn Roxie introduced the genderqueer flag. This Flags Importer Genderqueer Pride Flag reproduces it at 3' x 5' on polyester, with header tape and two metal grommets on the hoist edge, so it's ready for a pole, a wall or a window.

What genderqueer means

Genderqueer is one of the older, more established words for a gender that doesn't fit neatly into man or woman. Some people use it as an identity of its own, some as an umbrella term, and some use it alongside non-binary. It often carries a sense of pushing back against gender norms, which is part of why many people still prefer it to newer labels.

The three colours

Roxie chose each stripe with a purpose. Lavender, a mix of pink and blue, represents androgyny and is also linked to bigender identities. White, in the middle, stands for agender people. Chartreuse green, the inverse of lavender on the colour wheel, represents people whose genders sit outside the binary altogether, sometimes described as third-gender identities. Guides differ a little on the green's exact wording, but they agree on the overall idea: a range from mixed genders to no gender to genders beyond the usual two.

Genderqueer flag vs non-binary flag

The two flags are often confused because the identities overlap. The non-binary flag uses four stripes of yellow, white, purple and black, while this one keeps to three. Neither replaces the other; people pick the one that matches the word they use for themselves, and plenty fly both. For a desk or a march, there's also a hand-held 12" x 18" genderqueer stick flag.

Setting it up

The metal grommets sit in a reinforced header strip on the short side. Clip them to a pole's halyard, hang them over two screws in a wall, or tie them to a balcony rail with cord. Want the stripes vertical? Hang the flag from the grommets alone and let it drop. For a dorm room or rental, removable adhesive hooks avoid holes, and two more at the bottom corners stop the flag curling.

How it's put together

The stripes are dye-sublimated, a heat process that sets the colour inside the polyester fibres. Printing is on one side only, but the dye goes all the way through, so the back shows the same three stripes. Double stitching runs around every edge, and the fly end, which flaps most, has four rows to keep it from unravelling.

Wash it in cool water with mild soap and hang to dry. Light colours like lavender show sun-fading first, so if it's going in a bright window, rotate it occasionally with another flag. If it's going on a pole at a march, check that both grommets are clipped before you set off; a flag held by one grommet twists and wraps around itself in the wind.

Specifications

• Brand: Flags Importer
• Design: genderqueer pride flag, lavender, white and chartreuse green stripes
• Size: 3 ft × 5 ft
• Material: polyester
• Printing: dye-sublimated, single-sided, dye visible on the reverse
• Mounting: header tape with 2 metal grommets
• Finish: double-stitched edges, 4 rows of stitching on the fly edge

Browse the rest of our gender identity flags in the LGBTQ+ Pride collection.