re: They've Gone and Updated the Rainbow Flag... Again.

So a little digging yielded a page from the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health (the jokes write themselves) from 2022.

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Many groups within the LGBTQIA2-S community have their own Pride flags. There are specific flags celebrating the identities of transgender, bisexual, lesbian, pansexual, asexual, and other communities. Still, the rainbow-striped flag has historically been the most used and recognized symbol representing Pride for the LGBTQIA2-S community overall.

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It appears that the purple circle is for mental patients who identify as Intersex.

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In 2021, Valentino Vecchietti designed an intersex-inclusive Pride flag, which includes a purple circle over a yellow triangle as a reference to the Intersex pride flag that was created in 2013 by Morgan Carpenter. Purple and yellow are used as intentional contrasts to blue and pink, which are typically thought of as gendered colors. Like BIPOC and transgender communities, intersex people have largely been underrepresented – or outright ignored – within broader LGBTQIA2-S movements.

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I would posit that the Intersex category is likely "ignored" because no reasonable adult could define this specific mental illness.


Los Angeles Department of Mental Health