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* ''Series/GothamKnights2023'': "Daddy Issues" features several scenes of Stephanie and Harper being bathed in blue and purple light, which both symbolizes their respective {{Color Motif}}s from the comics (Steph is Purple, while Harper is blue) and foreshadows [[spoiler:Stephanie realizing that she is gay and in love with Harper. Significantly, they're the colors of the bisexual pride flag.]]

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* ''Series/GothamKnights2023'': "Daddy Issues" features several scenes of Stephanie and Harper being bathed in blue and purple light, which both symbolizes their respective {{Color Motif}}s from the comics (Steph is Purple, while Harper is blue) and foreshadows [[spoiler:Stephanie realizing that she is gay and in love with Harper. Significantly, they're the colors of the bisexual pride flag.flag (Harper's bi).]]
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* During the final battle in Issue #61 of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'', Tangle and Whisper are shown holding hands together with the sunrise making up the lesbian pride flag colors in the background (particularly the modern "orange-pink" variant introduced in 2018). While it's not confirmed that they're a couple, the two are heavily implied to be LGBT by Creator/IanFlynn and other IDW staff members.

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* During the final battle in Issue #61 of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'', Tangle and Whisper are shown holding hands together with the sunrise making up the lesbian pride flag colors in the background (particularly the modern "orange-pink" variant introduced in 2018). While it's not confirmed that they're a couple, the two are heavily implied to be LGBT by Creator/IanFlynn and other IDW staff members.
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* During the final battle in Issue #61 of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'', Tangle and Whisper are shown holding hands together with the sunrise making up the lesbian pride flag colors in the background. While it's not confirmed that they're a couple, the two are heavily implied to be LGBT by Creator/IanFlynn and other IDW staff members.

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* During the final battle in Issue #61 of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'', Tangle and Whisper are shown holding hands together with the sunrise making up the lesbian pride flag colors in the background.background (particularly the modern "orange-pink" variant introduced in 2018). While it's not confirmed that they're a couple, the two are heavily implied to be LGBT by Creator/IanFlynn and other IDW staff members.
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* During the final battle in Issue #61 of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'', Tangle and Whisper are shown holding hands together with the sunrise making up the lesbian pride flag colors in the background. While it's not confirmed that they're a couple, the two are heavily implied to be LGBT by Creator/IanFlynn and other IDW staff members.
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* ''Series/GothamKnights2023'': "Daddy Issues" features several scenes of Stephanie and Harper being bathed in blue and purple light, which both symbolizes their respective {{Color Motif}}s from the comics (Steph is Purple, while Harper is blue) and foreshadows [[spoiler:Stephanie realizing that she is gay and in love with Harper. Significantly, they're the colors of the bisexual pride flag.]]
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** Throughout issue #11, as Gert deals with her discomfort with how openly gay everyone seems to be since her resurrection, the colors pink, purple, and magenta keeps appearing in greater and greater quantities, including on people on the street (some of whom are queer-coded), in Molly's room at the hostel, and throughout Klara's [[HasTwoMommies foster dads']] house (especially her bedroom and her clothes.) The same issue has Gert dying her signature purple hair back to its natural brown color.

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** Throughout issue #11, as Gert deals with her discomfort with how openly gay everyone seems to be since her resurrection, the colors pink, purple, and magenta keeps appearing in greater and greater quantities, including on people on the street (some of whom are queer-coded), in Molly's room at the hostel, and throughout Klara's [[HasTwoMommies foster dads']] dads' house (especially her bedroom and her clothes.) The same issue has Gert dying her signature purple hair back to its natural brown color.

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* Used as foreshadowing in ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2''. A photograph in episode 1 shows Sean wearing a shirt with pink, blue, and purple, the colors of the bisexual flag. His bisexuality is revealed in episode 3.

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Used as foreshadowing in ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2''. A photograph in episode 1 shows Sean wearing a shirt with pink, blue, and purple, the colors of the bisexual flag. His bisexuality is revealed in episode 3.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': The short story "As You Are", which reveals Baptiste as bisexual, has page headers and footers in the colors of the bi pride flag, and the illustration of Baptiste and Pharah shows the sky behind them in similar colors to the flag.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Unpacking}}'', [[spoiler:the protagonist's girlfriend/wife, whom she dates/marries and has a child with at the end of the game]] has rainbow-colored underwear that you can unpack.
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'': Rosado's hair color is a mix of the cyan blue, light pink and white of the trans pride flag. While he does identify as male, Rosado has no qualms with [[WholesomeCrossdresser wearing women's clothes in public]] and [[AmbiguouslyHuman is hinted]] to be OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous.
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* ''Literature/{{Loveless}}'':
** Sunil wears an ace badge on his suit, which bears the colors of the ace flag.
** Pip is revealed to have a big lesbian pride flag hanging above her bed in the short story ''Hands Against Our Hearts''.


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* The title character in ''Literature/{{Rick}}'' has an ace pin on his backpack on the cover art.
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' In [[Recap/RWBYV9E2AltercationAtTheAuspiciousAuction Volume 9 episode 2]] when team RWBY are walking to palace to get Yang's robotic left arm, the plants can be see the three colors: pink, purple and blue, that deserves Blake and Yang as they confess in [[Recap/RWBYV9E6ConfessionsWithinCumulonimbusClouds episode 6]] (Although Yang is AmbiguouslyBi).
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' In [[Recap/RWBYV9E2AltercationAtTheAuspiciousAuction Volume 9 episode 2]] when team RWBY are walking to palace to get Yang's robotic left arm, the plants can be see the three colors: pink, purple and blue, that deserves Blake and Yang as they confess in [[Recap/RWBYV9E6ConfessionsWithinCumulonimbusClouds episode 6]] (Although Yang is AmbiguouslyBi).
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' special "Back to Bortron 7", Jet sings a soft duet with his male friend Sean, and the colors in the song are all of the bisexual pride flag - pink, purple, and blue. They have a lot of ShipTease in the special, and in the show in general. Jet started out as AmbiguouslyBi, but after the show ended, he was [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/readyjetgo/images/2/2d/Screenshot_2020-06-13-21-10-25~2.png/revision/latest?cb=20200614011225 confirmed]] to be bisexual by Creator/CraigBartlett.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' special "Back to Bortron 7", Jet sings a soft duet with his male friend Sean, who he's had ShipTease with throughout the special, and the colors in the song are all of the bisexual pride flag - -- pink, purple, and blue. They have a lot of ShipTease in the special, and in the show in general. Jet started out as AmbiguouslyBi, but after After the show ended, he Jet was [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/readyjetgo/images/2/2d/Screenshot_2020-06-13-21-10-25~2.png/revision/latest?cb=20200614011225 confirmed]] to be bisexual by Creator/CraigBartlett.
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* ''Webcomic/ThinkingTooMuchToThinkPositively'': Xan compares some Pokémon to pride flags based on their respective colour schemes in [[https://comicsbyxan.com/comic/pokemon-that-look-like-pride-flags/ "Pokémon That Look Like Pride Flags"]].
--> '''RF (Xan's partner):''' It's weird that there isn't a Pokémon for the rainbow flag.\\
'''Xan:''' Well, technically Ho-Oh is the Rainbow Pokémon.\\
[Ho-Oh is shown in front of a rainbow flag, the two clearly don't match well.]\\
'''RF:''' That's not a rainbow! That's two-thirds of a rainbow at best!\\
'''Xan:''' In the Gameboy era, that was more colours than our brains could handle!
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** In the fifth episode of ''Revenge'', trans girl Lily wears [[https://animecorner.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Zombieland-Saga-Revenge-Lily-Life-Performance-2-scaled.jpg?ezimgfmt=ng:webp/ngcb10 an outfit]] that incorporates the colors of pink, white and teal. Her [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/hotlink/images/cms/episode-review.3/172541/20210507_121245.jpg bow]] in particular is striped pink/white/pink and her teal hair makes it look similar to the transgender flag.

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** In the fifth episode of ''Revenge'', trans girl Lily wears [[https://animecorner.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Zombieland-Saga-Revenge-Lily-Life-Performance-2-scaled.jpg?ezimgfmt=ng:webp/ngcb10 an outfit]] that incorporates the colors of pink, white and teal. Her [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/hotlink/images/cms/episode-review.3/172541/20210507_121245.jpg bow]] in particular is striped pink/white/pink and her teal hair makes it look similar to the transgender flag.
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* The majority of work by transgender webcomic artist Creator/JamieBarker, most notably their signature comic ''[[https://www.facebook.com/fakegamercomics Fake Gamer Comics]]'', which explores themes of gender, uses a minimal palette of pastel pink, blue and purple shades similar to the trans pride flag. However, this could also be just an aesthetic coincidence.
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* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'': In a couple of early scenes, Ramona wears a purple sweater with horizontal blue and pink stripes reminiscent of the bi flag, foreshadowing a later reveal that she's had relationships with women as well as men.
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* In ''VisualNovel/HighSchoolStory'', Cameron (who goes by they/them pronouns) wears a necklace with green, white, and purple beads (the colours of the genderqueer flag).
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* In the "All Kinds of Love" ad for ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'', the Progress Pride flag can be seen behind Eve as she has a video chat with her date: a silhouetted woman. [[spoiler:If one looks closely at her date's hairstyle, they can see that it's Yuka.]]

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* In the "All Kinds of Love" ad for ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'', the Progress Pride flag can be seen behind Eve as she has a video chat with her date: a silhouetted woman. [[spoiler:If one looks closely at her date's hairstyle, they can see that it's Yuka.]]long-distance partner, who goes by they/them pronouns and whom she's planning to propose to.
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*In the "All Kinds of Love" ad for ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'', the Progress Pride flag can be seen behind Eve as she has a video chat with her date: a silhouetted woman. [[spoiler:If one looks closely at her date's hairstyle, they can see that it's Yuka.]]
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** Masha (a Gravesfield teenager) is nonbinary and has their nails painted yellow/black/white/purple (the nonbinary colors).
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** Specter is confirmed demiromantic -- someone who can't have a romantic relationship unless they have an emotional bond with someone -- whith the colors of the flag being black (his leather jacket), white (blouse and pants), grey (his hair) and dark green (his number)

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** Specter is confirmed demiromantic -- someone who can't have a romantic relationship unless they have an emotional bond with someone -- whith with the colors of the flag being black (his leather jacket), white (blouse and pants), grey (his hair) and dark green (his number)



* The cover art of "Dreadnought", the first book in the ''Literature/NemesisSeries'', a series about a trans girl who becomes a super hero, features a silhouette of the protagonist against a sunset with the pink, white and blue of the trans pride flag.

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* The cover art of "Dreadnought", the first book in the ''Literature/NemesisSeries'', a series about a trans girl who becomes a super hero, superhero, features a silhouette of the protagonist against a sunset with the pink, white and blue of the trans pride flag.



* Spoofed in ''Series/TheBoys'' where the marketing department of the lesbian (really bi) superheroine Maeve wants her to wave a rainbow flag as seen in this draft pitched to her. Maeve is not amused.

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* Spoofed in ''Series/TheBoys'' where the marketing department of the lesbian (really bi) ([[NoBisexuals really bi]]) superheroine Maeve wants her to wave a rainbow flag as seen in this draft pitched to her. Maeve is not amused.



* ''Series/Sense8'': Amanita Caplan has [[DreadlockRasta dreadlocks]] in shades of blue, purple and pink which are the colors of the Bisexual Pride flag. She's bisexual, being in a committed relationship with Nomi, her girlfriend, but also participates in the psychic orgies which include men.
* Infamously in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', when Castiel breaks Naomi's mind control, the plain window of her office turns into the colors of the bisexual flag. Soon after, [[AmbiguouslyBi Dean]] tells Cas "[[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove I need you]]". [[spoiler:In the final season, it's revealed that Cas does have feelings for Dean thought it's unclear whether or not it's reciprocated.]]

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* ''Series/Sense8'': Amanita Caplan has [[DreadlockRasta dreadlocks]] in shades of blue, purple purple, and pink which are the colors of the Bisexual Pride flag. She's bisexual, being in a committed relationship with Nomi, her girlfriend, girlfriend Nomi but also participates in the psychic orgies which include men.
* Infamously in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', when Castiel breaks Naomi's mind control, the plain window of her office turns into the colors of the bisexual flag. Soon after, [[AmbiguouslyBi Dean]] tells Cas "[[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove I need you]]". [[spoiler:In the final season, it's revealed that Cas does have feelings for Dean thought though it's unclear whether or not it's reciprocated.]]



* One article in ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' issue 362 was called "When Other TV Shows Finally Come Out Of The Closet", with one of the show being parodied was ''Series/SesameStreet'', which had the cast saying that "This episode was brought to you by the letters G, A, and Y, and by the colors pink and lavender".

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* One article in ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' issue 362 was called "When Other TV Shows Finally Come Out Of The Closet", with one of the show shows being parodied was ''Series/SesameStreet'', which had the cast saying that "This episode was brought to you by the letters G, A, and Y, and by the colors pink and lavender".



* ''A Year of Springs'', the CompilationRerelease of ''VisualNovel/OneNightHotSprings'' and its two sequels, includes a new epilogue that sees each character wearing a new outfit. [[https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/1688580/169e983bcb11a21e3541b4a6c75a8f63f04bde40.jpg Haru]] is transgender, and wears the pink, blue, and white of the transgender flag; [[https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/1688580/01335f4171eb510b490097ee92bb9e5c3fee722b.jpg Erika]] is bisexual, and wears the pink, blue, and purple of the bisexual flag; and [[https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/1688580/187ed5dd54a1bb472b4ce6d3e4042c7e358a775b.jpg Manami]] [[spoiler:has realized she's asexual and is now wearing the purple, black, grey, and white of the asexual flag]].

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* ''A Year of Springs'', the CompilationRerelease of ''VisualNovel/OneNightHotSprings'' and its two sequels, includes a new epilogue that sees each character wearing a new outfit. [[https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/1688580/169e983bcb11a21e3541b4a6c75a8f63f04bde40.jpg Haru]] is transgender, and wears the pink, blue, and white of the transgender flag; [[https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/1688580/01335f4171eb510b490097ee92bb9e5c3fee722b.jpg Erika]] is bisexual, bisexual and wears the pink, blue, and purple of the bisexual flag; and [[https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/items/1688580/187ed5dd54a1bb472b4ce6d3e4042c7e358a775b.jpg Manami]] [[spoiler:has realized she's asexual and is now wearing the purple, black, grey, and white of the asexual flag]].



* Chad Magical, the Doppelganger Sorcerer of WebAnimation/{{JoCat}}'s ''A Crap Guide to D&D'', is UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} per [[https://twitter.com/JoCat105/status/1225673371091734528 a tweet by JoCat]], and his outfit consist entirely of the colors blue, pink, and white.

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* Chad Magical, the Doppelganger Sorcerer of WebAnimation/{{JoCat}}'s ''A Crap Guide to D&D'', is UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} per [[https://twitter.com/JoCat105/status/1225673371091734528 a tweet by JoCat]], and his outfit consist consists entirely of the colors blue, pink, and white.



* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', which is created by a trans author, the goblin angel has [[https://www.goblinscomic.com/comic/page-19-2020 a sword]] in the colors of the transgender pride flag. She also wears pink, white and teal bracelets and rings on various parts of her body.

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', which is created by a trans author, the goblin angel has [[https://www.goblinscomic.com/comic/page-19-2020 a sword]] in the colors of the transgender pride flag. She also wears pink, white white, and teal bracelets and rings on various parts of her body.



* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the elven wizard Vaarsuvius, who was confirmed as genderqueer through WordOfGay, is rather fond of the spell Prismatic Spray, which is visualized as a rainbow-colored ray of light. An official t-shirt design has V using this rainbow spell against a {{troll}}, with the caption "Just an ordinary picture of a wizard defeating a monster with a high level spell. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything No additional symbolism here, nope.]]" which hints at the character's LGBTQ identity.

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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the elven wizard Vaarsuvius, who was confirmed as genderqueer through WordOfGay, is rather fond of the spell Prismatic Spray, which is visualized as a rainbow-colored ray of light. An official t-shirt design has V using this rainbow spell against a {{troll}}, with the caption "Just an ordinary picture of a wizard defeating a monster with a high level high-level spell. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything No additional symbolism here, nope.]]" which hints at the character's LGBTQ identity.



* The main characters of ''Sunflowers and Lavenders'' has color palette based on their respective gender identity/orientation. For example the protagonist [[GenkiGirl Penny]] (who is pansexual) has pink-yellow-blue themed color palette.

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* The main characters of ''Sunflowers and Lavenders'' has color palette palettes based on their respective gender identity/orientation. For example example, the protagonist [[GenkiGirl Penny]] (who is pansexual) has pink-yellow-blue themed pink-yellow-blue-themed color palette.



* Mollymauk Tealeaf from ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' is bisexual, his outfit consist of shades of purple, red, and blue, and as a Tiefling, he has purple skin (which is admittedly a [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation rather rare color for the species]]).

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* Mollymauk Tealeaf from ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' is bisexual, his outfit consist consists of shades of purple, red, and blue, and as a Tiefling, he has purple skin (which is admittedly a [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation rather rare color for the species]]).



** Married couple Netossa and Spinnerella are seen holding a bouquet in varying colors of red, pink and white during "Mer-Mysteries", in what behind the scenes confirms is a reference to the lipstick lesbian pride flag.

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* ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'': Chiyo, a pansexual School escapee, is capable of generating a rainbow Aura.
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* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'': In season 2, Fern starts wearing purple and she's currently dating the Dino Fury Green Ranger, Izzy.
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* ''Fanfic/MaFille'': In "Roses and Clovers", Li Wei ices some baked goods with blue, pink, and white icing (the colours of the trans flag) for a mother who wants to celebrate with her recently-out-of-the-closet son.
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* ''Fanfic/GuysBeingDudes'': Candela has a pin of the Team Valor emblem in the bisexual flag colors.

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