Bisexual pride flag
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Image:Bi flag.svg The bisexual pride flag is a flag design representing the bisexual community. It was designed in 1998.
History of the flag
The flag's designer, Michael Page, wanted to give the bisexual community its own symbol, comparable to the successful use of the rainbow flag by the gay and lesbian community, in order to increase the visibility of bisexual people as a distinct group from homosexual and heterosexual people. Other symbols in use at the time (such as the common overlapping inverted pink and blue triangles) were either not suitable for the same uses as a flag or were trademarks.
Design of the flag
A pink (Pantone 226) stripe representing homosexual orientation is at the top of the flag, and a blue (Pantone 286) stripe representing heterosexual orientation is at the bottom of the flag. The stripes overlap in the central one-fifth of the flag to form a purple (Pantone 258) stripe representing the combination of both orientations.
The flag's aspect ratio is not fixed, but generally shown as either 3:2 or 5:3.