“Invalid

This is a flag for reclaiming the term invalid as it is used against certain queer identities!

This includes, but is not limited to:

• those who identify as neogenders of any kind
• any subtlidens/contradictory identities
• multigender people, especially those who are both men and women
• ^ in line with the above point, male+female people who identify as lesbians, gay men, etc.
• gender nonconforming and pronoun nonconforming people (ex: feminine-presenting men, he/him women, etc.)
• nondysphoric trans people or those who experience atypical dysphoria
• multisexuals who don’t identify (exclusively) as bi
• those who experience tertiary attraction
• those who use the split attraction model, especially if one of their identities is not aspec (ex: biromantic homosexual)

Flag Colors:

• the blue stripes are the inverse of the light yellow stripe of the radical inclusionist flag, where it represents acceptance, thus representing nonacceptance of one’s identity from other people
• the purple stripes are adjusted from the exclusionist flag to represent exclusionism in general
• the red stripes represent the vitriol leveled against people with ‘invalid’ identities
• the gold stripe is from the radical inclusionist flag, where it represents good faith identities, and is intended here to represent that one’s identity is not harmful or truly invalid and that their happiness and comfort in their identity is more important than anyone else’s opinion”

Coined by neopronouns on June 14, 2024.

Context:

Subtliden: An umbrella term for identities such as mspec lesbian/veldian/gay/straight/etc., gaybian/velaurian, lesboy/turigirl, mesque, cistrans/transcis, transmasculine girl/transfeminine boy, and more. It’s ssentially a replacement/alternate term for ‘contradictory labels.’ The term comes from ‘subtle’ and ‘identity’, since these terms all describe identities that have subtleties that not everyone will understand.

Radical Inclusionist Flag (from urfavisaradinclus on October 22, 2022):

Color Meanings:

• Grey-ish black for ‘Stonewall Riots’
• Dark grey for ‘[being] accepting even if someone may be faking’
• Grey for ‘accepting others for who they are’
• White for ‘the diversity of identity’
• Bright yellow for ‘Being accepted as who you are’
• Light orange for ‘Good faith identities’
• Orange for ‘Radical inclusion’

An Exclusionist, also known as an Exclus, Exclu, or Reactionary Exclusionist Gatekeeper (REG), is someone who attempts to gatekeep the LGBT+ community by claiming that certain groups aren’t “really” LGBT+ based on their own definition.

The flags were coined by Twitter exclusionist @tomnooksfatass. The three main flags used by E.C.L.I.P.S.E. are the eclipse flag, which represents all exclusionists, the solar eclipse flag, which represents man- and masculine-aligned exclusionists, and the lunar eclipse flag, which represents woman- and feminine-aligned exclusionists.

Eclipse Exclusionist Flag:

Solar Eclipse Exclusionist Flag (from ryomoroy):

Lunar Eclipse Exclusionist Flag (from blossomrainn):

Meaning of ECLIPSE:

• E for Education
  • “the education of those who are undereducated and do not properly understand lgbt history the meaning of it’s labels and how modern/other labels effect and erase the original ones”
• C for Culture
  • “Lesbian/gay/bi/trans/nb culture and stopping those who seek to appropriate it, not only that but also educating those about that culture and preserving that culture to keep it from being watered down or taken by cishets”
• L for Language
  • “Keeping true to the English language and the definitions of lgbt labels and stopping the use of other languages to promote toxic sayings like pronouns ≠ gender; other languages have nothing to do with English speakers and their toxic labels”
• I for Intelligence
  • “self explanatory, with sources and facts to back us up we are so fucking big brained”
• P for Preservation
  • “preserving and staying true to the history and meanings of LGBT, not straying from those ideas unless they are harmful or toxic, and respecting those who fought to get us to where we are now”
• S for Sexy
  • “we are very sexy and have big ass and all the inclusionists are mad”
• E for Exclusionist
  • “Everyone in the community, as exclusionists we fight to stop erasure and keep history and labels safe from the harmful toxicity and appropriation of radical inclusivity, we are all different and unique in our own ways but we still come together as a community”