Variant:
not completely conforming to the societal and cultural ideals or roles
of gender, sex, orientation, sexuality, relationships, expression, and other related
forms of self-identification. Not being accepted as a member of
conformant society due to one’s identity differing from the one assigned
to and expected of them. To specify certain subcommunities, terms like gender variant, attractional variant, and relational variant can be used.
“Conformant” is the antonym- meaning not
variant- because cishetalloperisexmonoam(screaming for 11
minutes) is too long and I
don’t want to keep shortening it to cis/het because some variants are
both cis
and het, but variant in another way like gender nonconformity, intersexness, or
non-monoamory.
I discuss this term more in this post.
The flag stripe/color meanings are of particular importance because they’re meant to represent certain variant sub-communities and I want to make sure it covers everything to clarify what identities are variant. Colors are chosen based on their use in pride flags/symbols and their association with certain identities. I also wanted the flag to evoke other variant flags like genderqueer when you examine it closely. might edit this if I forgot something. To be fair, there is a lot to cover. Just know that these aren’t complete lists… because that would be a list of every term ever. I’m sticking to mostly broad terminology because of that.
From top center to bottom corners:
Lilac: represents all of the variant community and inclusionism. Lilac is the color representing variance.
Purple: represents (gender)queer, gender/pronoun nonconforming, cross-aligned, androgynous/androgyne, ace-spectrum, altersex, wlw, transgenital, genderfluid, amplusian, mspec/pluralian, (bi/pan)curious, genderfuck, strayt, kingender, varioriented, gender creative, transexpressive, and ficto- variants.
Blue: represents non-monoamorous, non-monogamous, alterous, objectum, conceptum, gay (all kinds of gay), gai, aplatonic, lesbian, auto-, paro-, multigender, enbian, fluitic, flex-, and (responsible/consensual) kinky-identified variants, as well as variants in nontraditional relationships or with variant relationship orientations/preferences.
Yellow: represents neutral, intersex, abinary, xenine/xin/xenogender, aesthetigender, ambident, iso, ultric, pangender, anthrotherio-, nblnb, pulsaric, aporagender, nontrinary, pandrogynous/pandrogyne, limno-, maverique, and queerplatonic variants.
Green: represents agender, neutrois, aro-spectrum, angenital, orientationgender, agorarelational (open relationship), mlm, medusan/alloda-, aliagender/other gender, oriented aroace, antigender, neurogender, synesgender, heartedgender, and abro- variants.
Black: represents aspec, anattractional, omnia-, repulsed/ARC, nonpronominal/pronounless, unaligned, nonamorous, apothigender, apothibinary, leptrois-spectrum, negabinary, sexless, neither gender, gendervoid, nullgender, anonbinary, and genderpunk variants.
Gray: represents gray-aspec, uingender, graygender, questioning, neuro-oriented, genderflux, flexible, amplusic, autogamous, gamyflux, celibate-oriented, utrinque, demigender, pre-, and nongender variants.
The shape is to evoke queer chevrons and the letter v.
Exclusionists/REGs, truscum/transmeds, gatekeepers/identity policers, anti-mogai/neolabel/neopronoun and anyone who would exclude any variant identity can’t use the flag, interact with me or this post, or participate in the variant community. We’re inherently inclusionist and so is the flag and term.