Bisexual Flag

The bisexual pride flag was designed by Michael Page in 1998 to give the bisexual community a symbol of its own. It has three horizontal stripes: a broad pink band at the top representing attraction to the same gender, a broad royal blue band at the bottom representing attraction to a different gender, and a narrower purple stripe in the middle where the two colors overlap, representing attraction across genders. Page explained the idea behind the overlap this way: the purple blends almost unnoticeably into both the pink and the blue, much as bisexual people often blend into both queer and straight communities. The flag was created because many bisexual people felt underrepresented by existing pride symbols, and it is now widely recognized.