LGBTQ+ explanations

Non-binary

Non-binary, or genderqueer, is a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine‍—‌identities that are outside the gender binary.

You can feel non-binary and look like a traditional man or woman. You don't have to use they/them pronouns to be non-binary. You can use any pronoun you want. Pretty much, the only criterion to being non-binary is feeling like you're not a man or woman.

Non-binary does not mean androgynous!!!

The term genderqueer originated in queer zines of the 1980s and is a precursor to the term non-binary. In addition to being an umbrella term, genderqueer has been used as an adjective to refer to any people who transgress distinctions of gender, regardless of their self-defined gender identity, or who "queer" gender.

Burnham creates the word "neutrois," a name for a nonbinary gender identity. The earliest known use of the word "genderqueer" is by Riki Anne Wilchins in the Spring 1995 newsletter of Transexual Menace. In the late 1990s, people in Japan who identified as neither male nor female began calling themselves X-gender.

The yellow symbolizes gender outside a binary. The white, a mix of all colors, represents those with many or all genders. Purple stands in for those who feel both binary male and female or fluid between them. The black is for the agender community, without sexuality or color.