A straight flag or heterosexual flag is a

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intended to represent

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. Some straight flags represent

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, a conservative countermovement to

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. There is also the straight ally flag, which is intended to represent allyship by straight people with the

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. Although there are many proposed straight flags, none of them has broad consensus for usage today.

Straight pride

A flag composed of alternating black and white strips, with a design similar to the rainbow LGBT pride flag, was created to represent

. Several variations of this flag exist. One uses white, grey and black colors, also mimicking the rainbow flag and originating in the early 2000s. Another variation with the male and female

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s imposed over its field also exists. In 2015, the Russian political party

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, of which the then

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was then part, introduced a straight pride flag to be displayed on the

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(also known as the Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness). It consists of a woman, a man and their three children with a hashtag saying ("#RealFamily") below. It was created as a response to the legalization of

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in the United States earlier in the same year. It has three variants, each representing one of the three colors of the

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. One portrays the family and text in red in a white background while other two display the symbols in white on a red or blue field. The French organization against same-sex marriage '' La Manif pour tous'' accused the party of plagiarism, as the flag it used was highly similar to the one used by United Russia, with the only differences being that the French organization's flag has two children and not three. However, Alexey Lisovenko, the then deputy head of United Russia in

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, stated that the design of the flag had been done with the approval of creators of ''La Manif pour tous'' flag. In 2019, the American organization

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led a straight pride parade in

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, in the United States, in August of the same year. Described as "a response to the 'identity politics' of the left", the event attracted several hundred participants and thousands of counter-protesters, who vastly outnumbered participants of the parade. The organization featured a straight pride flag in its official website. This flag was rectangular and divided from its upper hoist to its lower fly, with pink at the fly and blue at the hoist, and superimposed with interlocked male and female gender symbols in yellow bordered with black. In 2021, a social media trend called " super straight" emerged on

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on 21 February and later spread to other websites like

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and

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. Supporters stated that "super straight" was a new sexuality describing heterosexuals who would never have a sexual relationship with

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people. Its originator said he created the term because he was tired of being called

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. The trend was described by ''

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'' and ''

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'' as a transphobic campaign, and listed by

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as online

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. Supporters of the trend created an orange and black flag, which has been said to be meant to imitate

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's logo. Variants of the flag included the

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"#SuperStraight" or intertwined male and female symbols. Some people on 4chan used the acronym SS for "super straight", which led some people, including some supporters of the trend on the website, to associate it with the logo of

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, which also used SS as its acronym. As a result, some flags with

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symbolism were also used by these supporters.

Allyship

A variation of the alternating black-and-white striped flag is known as the

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flag, and represents heterosexual people who support the LGBT community. It combines the black and white straight flag with the rainbow LGBT flag. The rainbow portion of the flag sometimes takes the form of an "A", representing the word "allies", or an inverted "V". It originated in the late 2000s, but its exact origin is unknown.

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* {{Crwflags, id=qq-het, title=Heterosexual flags Heterosexuality Sexuality flags

Straight pride

Allyship

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