It’s been almost three decades since the polyamorous pride flag was released for the first time. Under the global growth of the internet, more polyamorous people have recognized Evans’ design.

What’s more – the “infinity heart” is not very common as a symbol of polyamory. Evans was not also very capable of incorporating such visual art into the design. So he chose the “pi” letter, which was available on computer typographic platforms back then.

Most of the judgments against the polyamorous flag are on its visual design. They assumed the flag was a confusing failure to the community’s declaration and inspiration. Also, the colors were said to be aggressive and create a sense of misgiving.

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Regarding the gold “pi” letter, Evans explained in his blog that it could’ve been an infinity heart instead. However, he avoided using the heart symbol because the feather pride flag had already featured it.

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The creation of his flag is inspired by other LGBT flags back then. He was aware of the imagery and symbology among LGBT groups that represent their identities. And yes, he was inspired!

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According to them, the poly flag might be more suited back then, but not today. As a result, they held a competition where a new polyamorous flag should be accepted by most people in the community.

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Is polyamory sexuality or just a lifestyle?? Should its intent be recognized as similar to that of other pride flags? Does it send out the wrong message, inadvertently painting polyamory as an alternative to monogamy, when in reality it is not?

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The poly flag features three horizontal colored stripes of equal width, from top to bottom: Blue, Red, and Black. There’s also a gold Greek letter “pi” as the first letter in “polyamory” in the flag’s center, over the red portion.

So we’ve known what the polyamorous flag symbolizes. But were there any motives to boost Evans’ desire to create such a flag? Read on.

Many polyamorous people have adopted the poly flag as a symbol of their orientation. But there is a lot of disagreement about whether it should be used.

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Evans soon realized that there hadn’t been a flag for polyamory. Therefore, he decided to create one without essential visual art abilities. All he had at the time was Microsoft Paint running on Windows 3.1.

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“One of the issues frequently brought up is that the color scheme is garish or unpleasing. That’s subjective, and I can’t argue with their perception. I still think there’s value in the color symbology, if not the actual RGB values I used when creating it,” said Evans.

The polyamory flag represents polyamorous relationships, in which people date multiple partners or have romantic (or/and sexual) relationships with more than one individual. Polyamory only works if it’s based on the appropriate consent of all people involved.

Even considering these potential problems, we think that the polyamorous flag has made a crucial impact on the poly community.

The polyamorous flag was designed by Jim Evans in 1995 to represent the polyamorous community. While there are many debates over the original poly flag, people within the community have adopted it as their sexuality symbol for decades.

It’s always important to have a pride flag created by a person within the community. Jim Evans has been polyamorous for most of his adulthood. He participated in simultaneous romantic relationships with more than one partner at once. And for sure, his practice is openly known by all individuals involved.

“There was already a rich history of existing pride symbols using Greek letters, the use of lambda as an LGBT symbol being a concrete example,” added Evans.