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Intersex flags

Flags of Sexual Orientation

image by David Lawrence, 22 September 2016

Description

See also:

Sexual orientation flags

External links:

Description

The Intersex flag was created by Organisation Intersex International Australia in July 2013 to create a flag "that is not derivative, but is yet firmly grounded in meaning." The organisation aimed to create a symbol without gendered pink and blue colors. It describes yellow and purple as "hermaphrodite" colors. The organisation describes it as freely available "for use by any intersex person or organisation who wishes to use it, in a human rights affirming community context."
David B. Lawrence, 22 September 2016
Source: Wikipedia article

The flag is being manufactured and can be seen at https://www.etsy.com/listing/294478811/intersex-pride-flag-3x5-intersexual-flag?ref=related-6.
Tomislav Todorović, 22 September 2016

An interesting design making use of the plain ring symbol "⚪", akin to the well known Venus/female symbol "♀" and the Mars/male symbol "♂". There is a whole wide gamut of intersectioning concepts that are relevant here, concerning sex, gender, sexual orientation, and gender expression, and psychology, physiology, and sociology of sex and gender. In that regard, the plain ring symbol "⚪" can also some times mean asexuality and/or genderlessness, which is not the same as what this flag was created to represent.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 March 2017

The earliest currently known example of the flag use is from Taiwan Pride 2015,[1] which took place in Taipei on 31 October 2015.[2] The examples from the following two years are very rare, the only currently known one being from the Amsterdam Pride 2017.[3]

In 2018, there were many more examples. The earliest currently known one is from Wellington, New Zealand, on 17 May 2018, when the flag was hoisted before the Parliament to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. The flag was flown together with the Rainbow Flag, the transgender flag (by Monica Helms), and the BiPride Flag, and the day was officially called the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism & Transphobia (word Intersexism was sometimes replaced with the Intersex-phobia).[4,5] Later the same year, the flag was also used at the Capital Pride Parade in Washington, DC,[6,7,8] Utrecht Pride,[9] Christopher Street Day Berlin,[10,11] and Rotterdam Pride.[12,13]

The examples from 2019 are also rather frequent:

Pride Serbia, Belgrade [14]
Dublin Pride [15]
Dyke March Berlin [16,17,18]
Christopher Street Day Berlin [19]
Brighton Pride [20]
Manchester Pride [21]

It shall be borne on the reader's mind that the examples from 2018 and 2019 are just those which happen to be the easiest to find online and most likely do not make a comprehensive list.
Tomislav Todorović, 19 July 2020
Sources:
[1] — Flickr - Photo from Taiwan Pride 2015: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quendigay/23806057619/
[2] — Taiwan Pride at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Pride#2015:_Act_who_you_are,_not_your_age
[3] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Amsterdam Pride on 6 August 2017: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iran_in_Amsterdam_Pride_Walk_2017.jpg
[4] — Stuff website: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/103991486/new-zealand-becomes-the-first-country-to-fly-intersex-flag-at-parliament
[5] — Gay Star News website: https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/new-zealand-is-the-first-country-to-raise-intersex-flag-outside-parliament/
[6] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Capital Pride Parade, Washington, DC, on 9 June 2018: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capital_Pride_Parade_DC_2018_(41069271840).jpg
[7] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Capital Pride Parade, Washington, DC, on 9 June 2018: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capital_Pride_Parade_DC_2018_(41069271350).jpg
[8] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Capital Pride Parade, Washington, DC, on 9 June 2018: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capital_Pride_Parade_DC_2018_(41069268730).jpg
[9] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Utrecht Pride on 16 June 2018: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Utrechtpride-intersexboat.jpg
[10] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Christopher Street Day Berlin on 28 July 2018: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:40._CSD_Berlin_304.jpg
[11] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Christopher Street Day Berlin on 28 July 2018: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:40._CSD_Berlin_306.jpg
[12] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Rotterdam Pride on 29 September 2018: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rotterdam_Pride_2018_036.jpg
[13] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Rotterdam Pride on 29 September 2018: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rotterdam_Pride_2018_037.jpg
[14] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Pride Serbia, Belgrade on 29 June 2019: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pride_Serbia_2019_-_Intersex_Pride_Flag.jpg
[15] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Dublin Pride on 29 June 2019: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DUBLIN_LGBTQ_PRIDE_PARADE_2019_-NEAR_MOSS_STREET_-_TALBOT_BRIDGE--153788_(48154615362).jpg
[16] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Dyke March Berlin on 26 July 2019: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dyke_March_Berlin_2019_084.jpg
[17] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Dyke March Berlin on 26 July 2019: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dyke_March_Berlin_2019_582.jpg
[18] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Dyke March Berlin on 26 July 2019: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dyke_March_Berlin_2019_587.jpg
[19] — Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Christopher Street Day Berlin on 27 July 2019: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christopher_Street_Day_Berlin_2019_205.jpg
[20] — The Argus newspaper website: https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17858241.pride-big-success-will-get-even-better-next-year/
[21] — Flickr - Photo from Manchester Pride on 3 September 2019: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gclintonlindop/48674024952/