pride flag

plural pride flags

1. The rainbow flag or variants of it.

   Eve thought her church should fly a pride flag, the rainbow flag that has been a symbol of gay pride for decades.

   2008, Sarah Sentilles, A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit, page 203

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   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.

   1999, David Andrusia, Frommer's Gay & Lesbian Europe, page 18

   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.

   2014 February 10, Marco Vigliotti, “Province shows its Olympic pride”, in Metro Saskatoon, page 1

2. Any flag intended to represent a specific subset of the LGBT+ community.

   The Trans Equality Society of Alberta (TESA) celebrated Alberta's first-ever formal raising of a trans pride flag at the Alberta Legislature […]

   2016, Trent Wilkie, "Trans Flag Raised At Leg", in "News Roundup", Vue Weekly, 24 November 2016 - 30 November 2016, page 5

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   "It will be such an honor to ride with Woody [Glen] through the streets of Boston — wearing tiaras, of course — with the 45-foot bi pride flag and dozens of bi community members behind us,” [Ellyn] Ruthstrom says.

   2016, Faith Cheltenham, "The Case for Bisexuals at Pride", Mirror, Summer 2015, page 26

   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 […]

   2019 September 25, Amy Qin, “Mob Lets Pride Fly In Baylor Show”, in The Rice Thresher, Rice University, Houston, TX, page 1