pride flag

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English

Noun

various pride flags

pride flag (plural pride flags)

  1. (LGBTQ) The original rainbow flag or variants of it.
    • 1999, David Andrusia, Frommer's Gay & Lesbian Europe, page 18:
      Later that week, a group of smiling Czechs appeared on the cover of the Prague Post, with one of the supporters waving a pride flag over his head.
    • 2008, Sarah Sentilles, A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit, page 203:
      Eve thought her church should fly a pride flag, the rainbow flag that has been a symbol of gay pride for decades.
    • 2014 February 10, Marco Vigliotti, “Province shows its Olympic pride”, in Metro Saskatoon, page 1:
      Premier Brad Wall confirmed on Saturday that the pride flag would fly at the [Saskatchewan] legislature in a show of solidarity with LGBT activists in Russia.
  2. (LGBTQ) Any flag intended to represent a specific subset of the LGBT+ community.
    • 2016, Faith Cheltenham, "The Case for Bisexuals at Pride", Mirror, Summer 2015, page 26:
      "It will be such an honor to ride with Woody through the streets of Boston — wearing tiaras, of course — with the 45-foot bi pride flag and dozens of bi community members behind us,” Ruthstrom says.
    • 2016, Trent Wilkie, "Trans Flag Raised At Leg", in "News Roundup", Vue Weekly, 24 November 2016 - 30 November 2016, page 5:
      The Trans Equality Society of Alberta (TESA) celebrated Alberta's first-ever formal raising of a trans pride flag at the Alberta Legislature
    • 2019 September 25, Amy Qin, “Mob Lets Pride Fly In Baylor Show”, in The Rice Thresher, Rice University, Houston, TX, page 1:
      During the halftime show, students carried eight different pride flags onto the field, representing the asexual, transgender, nonbinary, intersex, gay, lesbian, bisexual and pansexual communities []

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