Part 2 of my #Pride #vexillology series: Bisexual

In 1998, this flag was introduced to better represent bisexual people, who often get lumped into either the gay community or straight community, based on their relationship dynamic or preferences. This flag was created to give them (I should say us) something of our own to help stand out against bi-erasure.

According to the designer, the pink stripe represents attraction to the same sex, while the blue stripe represents attraction to the opposite sex. The purple stripe, the resulting overlap of the blue and pink stripes, represents attraction to both.

It is also often assumed that the colors represent the traditional understanding of gender, but with the modern understanding of the complexity and diversity of human gender and sexuality, “bisexual” has come to be an umbrella for any attraction to one’s own gender as well as at least one other, encapsulating many sexual orientations under one general term. #grownostr