The pride flag emoji: 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️
The rainbow flag is the best-known pride emoji. It is not a single character but a sequence: a white flag , an invisible joiner and a rainbow . Phones that understand the sequence draw one flag; older systems show the white flag and the rainbow side by side, which is why you sometimes see in old messages.
The transgender flag , with its light blue, pink and white stripes, works the same way ( joiner ) and arrived in Emoji 13.0 in 2020. Those two are the only pride flags with official emoji. Every other flag, from bi to lesbian to non-binary, is written with coloured hearts or squares, which is what the combos below are for.
LGBTQ emoji hearts and what each flag combo means
Hearts are the most flexible LGBTQ emoji because Unicode now has twelve solid colours. Six in a row, , read as the classic rainbow. Pink and light blue arrived with Emoji 15.0 (late 2022, on most phones in 2023), which finally made the trans flag possible in hearts: .
The bi flag is (pink, purple, blue), the lesbian sunset flag is , pansexual is , non-binary is and asexual is . If a heart colour looks wrong on someone's phone, coloured squares are a safe fallback, and they stack into a little flag.
Pride symbols and their meanings:
Before there were emoji, text symbols did the job, and they still work in bios, usernames and places where emoji are stripped. (two female signs) stands for lesbians, (two male signs) for gay men, and for heterosexual or bisexual pairings depending on who uses them, and combines the female, male and stroked signs into the transgender symbol.
became a full emoji in 2020, but the character itself has been in Unicode since 2005. (neuter) is sometimes used for agender or non-binary identity, since Unicode has no dedicated non-binary sign.
Pride month emoji: parades, protest and party
Pride Month is June because the Stonewall uprising in New York began in the early hours of 28 June 1969. That mix of protest and celebration shows in the emoji people use: for marches and rights, for parades and clubs, and for drag and ballroom culture.
and turn up whenever marriage equality is in the news, and are playful queer shorthand, and nods to lavender, a colour tied to queer history for decades.
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How to use them
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- Gilbert Baker's original 1978 rainbow flag had eight stripes; hot pink was dropped because the fabric was hard to find, then turquoise, leaving the six stripes used today.
- The rainbow flag emoji is built from , so on systems that don't support it you see two separate emoji.
- Monica Helms designed the transgender flag in 1999; its stripes read the same from either end, so it is never flown upside down.
- Pink and light blue hearts only arrived in Emoji 15.0 at the end of 2022, so trans-flag heart combos could not be written in pure hearts before then.
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6How do I copy and paste pride emoji?
Tap or click any emoji or combo on this page to copy it, then paste it into your message, bio or post. Combos copy as a whole sequence.
How do I get the pride flag emoji on my phone?
is on every current iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac keyboard: search the emoji keyboard for "rainbow flag". The trans flag needs a system from 2020 or later; if yours lacks it, copy it from here.
What do the pride emoji hearts mean?
Each run of hearts copies a flag's colours: is the rainbow flag, bi, lesbian, trans, non-binary.
Is there a lesbian or bi flag emoji?
Not as official emoji. Only the rainbow and transgender flags exist, so people write the others with hearts or squares, as in the combos above.
What are the LGBTQ symbols and meanings?
lesbian, gay men, transgender, and male-female pairings (also used for bisexual), and neuter for agender or non-binary. , and are informal pride symbols.
What is the gay emoji?
There is no single "gay emoji"; people use , , the rainbow hearts or (the colours of the newer gay men's flag).
