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Minnesota LGBTQ+ flags (U.S.)

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 23 November 2024

Description of the flag
Variant flags

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Description of the flag

Shortly after the new flag of Minnesota was adopted, a number of its LGBTQ+ variants have appeared, being derived by replacing the light blue fly field with the patterns of various sexual orientation flags, most of which consist of a number of horizontal stripes in various colors, thus being easy to combine. The earliest to appear was a combination with the 11-striped Rainbow Flag for transgender and people of color.

It was created by Michael Green of the Flags For Good flag manufacturing company [1]. The earliest photo of its use dates from February 2024 [2], although the precise location is currently unknown. It spread wider during the summer 2024, being used at the Pride events throughout Minnesota, such as the East Central Minnesota Pride Festival in Pine City, in June [3], Itasca Pride in Grand Rapids, also in June [4-6], Wright-Sherburne Pride in Monticello, in July [7] and Bemidji Pride in Bemidji, in August [8]. Not all examples of its use are from the Pride events, though, although some of those might be related, as they were recorded in the same season [9], while the others, with which it was not the case, are clearly unrelated [2].

Flag above derived from the SVG image of the state flag from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Minnesota.svg

Sources:

[1] Flags For Good website - New Minnesota LGBTQ Pride Flag: https://flagsforgood.com/products/new-minnesota-lgbtq-pride-flag
[2] Photo of the new Minnesota LGBTQ Pride Flag at X/Twitter, on 2024-02-12: https://x.com/BestPixMN/status/1757093213641265366
[3] Wikimedia Commons - Photo from East Central Minnesota Pride Festival, on 2024-06-01: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minnesota_State_Flag_with_pride_design.jpg
[4] Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Itasca Pride, on 2024-06-23: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024_Itasca_Pride,_Grand_Rapids,_MN-29.jpg
[5] Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Itasca Pride, on 2024-06-23: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024_Itasca_Pride,_Grand_Rapids,_MN-31.jpg
[6] Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Itasca Pride, on 2024-06-23: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2024_Itasca_Pride,_Grand_Rapids,_MN-36.jpg
[7] Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Wright-Sherburne Pride, on 2024-07-20: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20240720-Wright-Sherburne_Pride-05.jpg
[8] Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Bemidji Pride, on 2024-08-24: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20240824-Bemidji_Pride-07.jpg
[9] Combination of various flag photos from Minnesota at X/Twitter, on 2024-06-06: https://x.com/redheadranting/status/1798507062655148476
[10] Wikimedia Commons - Photo from Wright-Sherburne Pride, on 2024-07-20: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20240720-Wright-Sherburne_Pride-10.jpg

Tomislav Todorovic, 23 November 2024

Variant flags

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 23 November 2024

The only other LGBTQ+ flag with currently verified use is the combination of the state flag with the six-striped Rainbow Flag. It was used at the Wright-Sherburne Pride 2024 in Monticello [10].
Tomislav Todorovic, 23 November 2024

Another instance of the flag use was outside Minnesota: in January 2025, the Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center in Kingston, New York flew the flag as the sign of support for the anti-ICE protests in Minnesota. The flag was hoisted with the purple stripe up, the opposite of how it is typically depicted, suggesting that it might be another "no right side up" flag, although more sightings would be necessary to tell that.
Source: Hudson Valley LGBTQ+ Community Center website: https://www.lgbtqcenter.org/directors-notes/minnesota-pride
Tomislav Todorovic, 24 March 2026

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 28 December 2025

Another rarely used variant is the combination of the state flag with the eight-striped Rainbow Flag. The only photos verifying its existence are from an online vendor [1] and from a Reddit discussion about the new state flag [2]; the latter of those was taken in December 2025, on a snowy day, presumably in Minnesota and is currently the only evidence of its use. In both photos, the colors slightly differ from those of Gilbert Baker's original creation, most notably indigo, which is actually closer to blue of the six-striped Rainbow Flag.

Sources.
[1] Pride Flag SD website: https://prideflagsd.com/products/new-minnesota-state-gilbert-baker-rainbow-flag-3x5
[2] Reddit - Post on 2025-12-20: https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1prnmpk/comment/nv3aa1z

Tomislav Todorovic, 28 December 2025