Trans athlete Sally Matthews has created a new version of the Transgender Pride Flag, which features an image of a cis woman who is defeated and in despair. Matthews was inspired to create the flag after seeing a viral video of a trans woman spiking a volleyball in the face of a high-school girls volleyball player who was injured in the incident. Matthews hopes that a trans woman who can deadlift 300 pounds will hoist the banner after her inevitable victory at a weight-lifting competition this coming weekend in Rhode Island.
LGBTQ+ activist Trixie Genderqueer, who identifies as gender-fluid, has created the Bud Light Pride Flag, which combines the navy blue and white of Bud Light products with the silhouette of 16-ounce aluminum bottles in the colors of the transgender flag. Genderqueer is working on a Target pride flag next and has contacted Anheuser-Busch about the possibility of flying the flag at half-staff over its headquarters in St. Louis, Mo.
Drag queen Cagayan de Oro has updated and modified the Drag Pride Flag by adding an image of small children. De Oro performs once a month at New York City elementary schools on a rotating basis, where she reads Dr. Seuss to first-graders while wearing pink vinyl pants, a strapless bustier, and eight-inch heeled lace-up closed-toe platform ankle boots.
Asexual artist George O’Keefe has created the Abstract Expressionist Pride Flag, a random smattering of paint in the style of Jackson Pollock, which draws from the colors of the Progress Pride Flag. O’Keefe plans to follow up with Dada, Cubist, and Surrealist pride flags and a public art exhibit in London.
Heather Richards and her girlfriend Lucy Simms have created the Anti-Florida Pride Flag, which 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.”
Sally David, the embattled abrosexual designer, has created the All-Gender Pride Flag, which draws from all of the most prominent pride flags in a kaleidoscopic pattern of stripes and shapes. However, there was an outcry over the exclusion of the Leather Pride Flag, Demisexual Pride Flag, and Queer People of Color Flag, leading to harassment and picketing of David’s design business.
Transgender activist Tracy Honey has designed the Test Pattern Pride Flag, which takes colors from various pride flags and makes the stripes vertical instead of horizontal to show how LGBTQIA2S+ people “can climb to unparalleled heights.” However, Honey was unaware that the flag was actually a TV test pattern.
Gay activist Daisy Pixie has created the American Pride Flag, which takes the red stripes from the Gilbert Baker Pride Flag, the 1978 Pride Flag, and the Philadelphia Pride Flag, and the white stripes from the Asexual Pride Flag, the Genderqueer Pride Flag, and the Aromatic Pride Flag, alternating them in what Pixie calls “a pulsating pattern of queerdom and asexuality.” Pixie has also added as “many stars as possible” to the blue field to represent how people of all identities and orientations are true stars. Pixie hopes that his design, which is outlandish and unlike any pride flag, will be accepted in his West Village neighborhood where such a flag has never been seen flying before.
