Marilyn Roxie

Marilyn Roxie (born 1989 in Bakersfield, CA) is a video artist and experimental photographer living and working in Manchester, England. Roxie is most notable for creating the genderqueer flag in 2010-2011. This flag is now part of the pantheon of pride flags,
"Genderqueer", as Ash Hardell describes it, is "omeone whose gender exists outside of or beyond society’s binary concept of gender, often by not conforming to it". (This is different and more specific than "queer", often used as an umbrella term for the LGBT community, one which English professor Eric Clarke explored, in defense of the term, as the "political possibilities of sexual nonconformity.")
Roxie intentionally chose each color of the flag, considering distinct meanings for each. In an interview with The Buzz Mag, they told Casey Robertson that they included lavender due to the "queerness" of it and its history within the community. The green is the direct inverse of lavender to represent all other people as part of the community. Roxie said that they wanted everyone to feel included and represented with this flag.
A flag of the British Suffragette Movement similarly includes purple, white, and green stripes. Roxie said that they were unaware of the similarity when developing the genderqueer flag.<ref name=":2" />

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