Colours & Meanings Femininity Nonbinary Masculinity About The origins of the Pansexual Flag aren’t well-established, but it is thought to have been around since mid-2010. It consists of three horizontal stripes, with the pink signifying femininity, the yellow representing nonbinary people and the blue representing masculinity.

In electronics, it describes alternating current or direct current respectively, and as such in Queer slang, came to describe someone who is both “AC” and “DC”, that is, somebody who is both “heterosexual” and “homosexual” – a bisexual. See also: bats for both teams.

a person who experiences romantic, but not necessarily sexual, attractions to multiple, but not all genders. A panromantic person may not necessarily be polysexual.

a person who experiences romantic, but not necessarily sexual, attractions to all genders. A panromantic person may not necessarily by pansexual.

the assumption that people are monosexual: that is, solely attracted to one gender; the assumption that people are either gay or straight until shown otherwise.

an alternative term for bisexual erasure.

shorthand for the multisexual spectrum, or multi-gender attraction spectrum, describing the wide variety of bisexual+ identities.

the spectrum of bisexual+ identities; the spectrum of multiple-gender attraction.

the idea that bisexual+ people should be excluded from Queer spaces and venues, typically due to them not being “gay enough”, typically, but not exclusively, when they are currently in an opposite-sex couple – or a coupling that people perceive as heterosexual. Such biphobic discourse has also included the idea that the visibility and acceptance […]