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Pansexual flag

Literally made by some random Tumblr user. Man, imagine historians having to go through long Tumblr threads in the future to discover the coveted queer lore. Although I like how it looks more than the original rainbow, the flag was made to distinguish pansexual people from bisexual people, yet it really just contributes to the conflating of the two sexualities.

Both the bisexual flag and the pansexual flag have girl color on top and boy color on bottom with a different color representing the in-betweeners of gender that pansexual people also like. So, if this list was based on purely looks, I would have put it higher because it is nicer to look at than the rainbow flag for sure but the meaning behind it ruins it for me. 

I still don’t really know the practical difference between bisexuality and pansexuality and the flags being so similar doesn’t really help. In my opinion, if I could redesign the flag I would just make it this: