The new Disability-Inclusive Pride Flag was unveiled during London’s Pride 2024. Global social enterprise, Evenbreak, collaborated with the creator of the Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag, Valentino Vecchietti, to incorporate the disability flag in the shape of a heart into the Inclusive Pride flag.
The Disability-Inclusive Pride Flag
The new flag was seen dancing in the crowds as the Evenbreak team and Valentino walked the parade.
Dayna Halliwell (she/her), Content and Engagement Manager at Evenbreak, led the collaboration and organised the Pride visit. She said: “It was very moving and amazing to see the reaction of disabled people in the audience. You could see the joy on their faces of being represented in the parade.”
The flag is part of a wider campaign called #PrideInTalent being led by Evenbreak. We felt it was important that the intersection between the disability and LGBTIQA+ community was highlighted.
The flag will now go touring at employers’ officers with guidance on intersectionality.
About Evenbreak
Evenbreak is the only global disability job board run by and for disabled people. Founded by Jane Hatton in 2011, Evenbreak works to close the disability employment gap by connecting talented disabled candidates with inclusive employers.
Jane Hatton (she/her), Evenbreak’s CEO, said: “We are delighted to partner with Valentino Vecchietti in launching a disability-inclusive version of the Inclusive Pride flag to create LGBTIQA+ disabled representation.
Recognizing that 1 in 3 members of the LGBTIQA+ community are also disabled, celebrating this intersectionality 365 days a year is essential not only to Evenbreak but to the wider community. We anticipate the flag will have far-reaching effects, and our commitment to a more equitable and accepting society will continue long after the end of Pride Month.”
About Valentino Vecchietti
Valentino Vecchietti (she/her) is an artist, writer, and the creator of our current global Pride flag, the Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag, she works globally to create LGBTIA+ inclusion, representation, and funding. Vecchietti is also an intersex consultant and the founder of Intersex Equality Rights, an intersex-led organisation focused on research, campaigns, and advocacy. Vecchietti’s work has been recognised on the Diva Power List, The Pride Power List, The Independent Pride List, Lesbian 100 List.
Valentino Vecchietti (she/her) said: “Inclusive is the keyword in my Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag and I am really delighted and honoured to create this Disability-Inclusive version of my Inclusive Pride flag in collaboration with Evenbreak. This collaboration serves to uplift the voices of our diverse community at the intersection of LGBTIA+ and Disability, to create empowerment, joy, and raise awareness.”
#PrideInTalent
Dana Halliwell, Content and Engagement Manager at Evenbreak, led the campaign in collaboration with Valentino Vecchietti.
She said: “As a disabled queer person, it was important that we at Evenbreak approached Pride Month in the right way. This meant focusing on listening to the community and creating a campaign that centers authentic voices. Through conversations with our ambassadors and internal LGBTIQA+ colleagues, a recurring theme emerged: many felt ‘left out’ or ‘not thought of,’ both in Pride events and in general.
This inspired the PrideInTalent campaign, with a key activity being our collaboration with Valentino Vecchietti to create a disability-inclusive version of Valentino’s Inclusive Pride flag to represent LGBTIQA+ disabled people. For me, this project is a historic milestone and has been a long time coming. I hope disabled queer people feel seen and included.”
The Inclusive Pride flag, 2021
The Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag was created by Valentino Vecchietti (she/her) in 2021, and subsequently became a global viral sensation. It is a SOGIESC inclusive flag, representing persons with: diverse sexual orientations; diverse gender identities and expressions, and those with diverse sex characteristics. Diverse sex characteristics refers to the intersex community. Sex characteristics is a new category not previously included in our global Pride flag. Vecchietti’s flag also updated the rainbow stripes to explicitly include representation of diverse orientations such as asexual and aromantic.
This Pride flag respects and includes the intentions of the previous iterations of the Pride flags, and includes representation for black, brown, people of color, and indigenous populations in the LGBTI+ community. As well as recognizing the continued stigma surrounding those living with HIV/AIDS and those we have lost to HIV/AIDS.
Vecchietti’s Pride flag reflects the SOGIESC international human rights law: Yogyakarta Principles +10. To learn more visit The Global Inclusive Pride flag website Since creating the Inclusive Pride flag, Vecchietti collaborates globally with communities and organizations to create additional Inclusive versions of her Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag.
The Disability Pride flag, 2019
The Disability Pride Flag was created in 2019 by Ann Magill, and includes black, red, yellow, white, blue, and green stripes. Red represents physical disabilities, yellow for neurodiversity, and white for non-visible and undiagnosed disabilities. The blue is for emotional and psychiatric disabilities and the green is for sensory disabilities. The black stripe commemorates and mourns disabled people who have died due to ableism, violence, negligence, suicide, rebellion, illness, and eugenics.
Interestingly, there is a higher prevalence of disability for LGBTIQA+ individuals than non-LGBTIQA+ individuals. A 2020 US study of disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity showed that overall, one in three (36%) LGBTIQ+ adults self-reported having a disability, compared with one in four (24%) non-LGBTIQ+ (cisgender and heterosexual) adults. For trans individuals specifically, this number was even higher, with over half (52%) transgender adults reporting having a disability. (1)
We hope you will join us in celebrating and sharing this historic moment for the LGBTIQA+ disabled community.
Find out more about the Evenbreak team and ambassadors as they delve into intersectionality, exploring how their disabilities intersect with other facets of their identities.
Want to learn more about Evenbreak, the only global job board run by and for disabled people? Visit https://www.evenbreak.co.uk/
Hey, I am writing up an article on the new disability-inclusive Pride flag, and wondered if there is a copy of the new flag itself avialble to use for the article? I couldn’t find it on Wikimedia Commons, and this is the only site4 I’ve seen use it on a webpage. IS it free to use or is it copyrighted? Many thanks for your help 🙂
Hi Kaylin. The image is not copy righted and we want it to be widely available to celebrate disabled queer people. The Flag was commissioned by Evenbreak (the only global disability job board run by and for disabled people) and designed by Valentino Vechietti (who created the intersex-inclusive pride flag), so if you could credit both Valentino Vechietti and Evenbreak for the collaboration that would be appreciated. Thank you for sharing!