Trans athlete Sally Matthews has created a new Trans Athlete Pride Flag, inspired by her personal experiences. Matthews was cut from her JV high-school baseball team, but after identifying as a woman, she went on to achieve great success in softball. She hopes her flag will challenge the notion that cisgender girls cannot compete with transgender athletes. The flag features the Transgender Pride Flag with an image of a cisgender woman in defeat. Matthews plans to have a trans woman who can deadlift 300 pounds hoist the banner after an upcoming weight-lifting competition in Rhode Island.
LGBTQ+ activist Trixie Genderqueer has designed a new pride flag in honor of Bud Light. The Bud Light Pride Flag incorporates the brand’s iconic navy blue and white colors with the transgender flag’s colors, featuring the silhouette of 16-ounce aluminum bottles. Genderqueer hopes to create a Target pride flag next and has contacted Anheuser-Busch about flying the flag at half-staff over its headquarters in St. Louis, Mo.
Drag queen Cagayan de Oro has modified the Drag Pride Flag by adding an image of small children. De Oro performs once a month at New York City elementary schools while wearing pink vinyl pants, a strapless bustier, and eight-inch heeled lace-up closed-toe platform ankle boots. She takes pride in bringing the passion, kink, and sex appeal of Drag to young audiences.
Asexual artist George O’Keefe has created the Abstract Expressionist Pride Flag, a random smattering of paint in the style of Jackson Pollock. O’Keefe hopes to follow up with Dada, Cubist, and Surrealist pride flags. Ze also plans to paint the Tower Bridge black, grey, and white and dye the River Thames purple in an homage to the Asexual Pride Flag.
Heather Richards and her girlfriend Lucy Simms have created the Anti-Florida Pride Flag. The innovative banner works from the state flag of Florida but replaces the state seal in the center with an image of a drag queen and replaces the motto “In God We Trust” with the injunction, “Say Gay, Bitches!” Richards and Simms hope the flag will become a symbol of queer resistance to “the genocidal DeSantis regime.”
Designer Sally David has faced backlash for her new All-Gender Pride Flag, which was intended to capture the “sheer, chaotic joy” of the LGBTQIA2S+ community. The banner includes stripes and shapes from all of the most prominent pride flags. However, an outcry erupted over the exclusion of the Leather Pride Flag, Demisexual Pride Flag, and Queer People of Color Flag. David has faced harassment from a “Coalition of the Excluded” and has even questioned her abrosexual identity.
Transgender activist Tracy Honey has designed a new pride flag, the Test Pattern Pride Flag. The banner features colors from various pride flags, with vertical stripes to symbolize how LGBTQIA2S+ people “can climb to unparalleled heights.” However, Honey was surprised to learn that the flag looked like a TV test pattern and hung up on a reporter who informed her.
Gay activist Daisy Pixie has created an all-encompassing American Pride Flag, incorporating colors from various pride flags in a pulsating pattern of queerdom and asexuality. Pixie also added stars to represent how people of all identities and orientations are true stars. While Pixie acknowledges that his design is outlandish and unlike any pride flag, he hopes to promote inclusivity and celebrate Pride Month.
