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The non-binary flag consists of four equally-sized horizontal bars: yellow, white, purple, and black. There is no official or agreed-upon [[Aspect ratio|proportion]] (the images in this article are 2:3).
The yellow stripe represents people outside the [[
File:Nonbinary flag (coloured cosmic latte).svg|Alternate version later proposed by Kye Rowan, which uses [[Cosmic latte]] instead of plain white.<ref>{{Cite web |last=thejasmineelf-blog |title=genderweird |url=https://thejasmineelf-blog.tumblr.com/flagfaq |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240623160705/https://thejasmineelf-blog.tumblr.com/flagfaq |archive-date=2024-06-23 |access-date=2024-06-21}}</ref>
</gallery>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" />
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