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swapped the main image of the flag to the original one which is much more universally used, but added the cosmic latte version separately in its own box
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The design of both the genderqueer flag and the nonbinary flag include the colour lavender (purple) in reference to [[LGBT history|LGBTQ+ history]]. The word [[Lavender (color)|lavender]] had long been used to refer to the gay community. A 1935 dictionary of slang included the phrase "a streak of lavender" meaning a person who was regarded as effeminate. A different-gender marriage where both parties were assumed to be gay was called a [[lavender marriage]]. The [[Lavender Scare]] was a moral panic in the mid-20th century, where [[LGBT community|LGBT+ people]] were dismissed ''en masse'' from their jobs with the United States government. Expressions used by the LGBT+ community are sometimes referred to as [[lavender linguistics]].<ref name=":0" />
 
== Emoji ==
Due to the Unicode Consortium having a blanket policy on not adding any additional flag emojis, an emoji for the non-binary will not be added.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-01 |title=Guidelines for Submitting Unicode Emoji Proposals |url=https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html |url-status=live |website=[[Unicode]]}}</ref> A blog post by the Unicode Consortium in 2022 recommended using different coloured heart emojis as an alternative (''{{Abbr|eg|for example}}'': 💛🤍💜🖤), though using squares is equally-common (''{{Abbr|eg|for example}}'': 🟨⬜🟪⬛).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jennifer |first=Daniel |date=2020-03-28 |title=The Past and Future of Flag Emoji |url=http://blog.unicode.org/2022/03/the-past-and-future-of-flag-emoji.html |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20220328204253/https://blog.unicode.org/2022/03/the-past-and-future-of-flag-emoji.html |archive-date=2022-03-28 |access-date=2024-06-28 |website=blog.unicode.org |publisher=[[Unicode Consortium]]}}</ref>
 
== References ==