FAQ
For Flag Recipients
Any resident of Texas’ Travis, Williamson, Bastrop, Hays, or Caldwell Counties can request one Free Rainbow Flag to fly at their home.
We do not ship flags. When requesting your flag on this website, please select a sponsor location you can visit in-person to pick up your free rainbow flag in the month of June.
All the styles are great, right?!? But you have to pick one to make sure we have enough Free Pride Flags for everyone who wants a flag.
Please wait until June to order yours so other people who have not received a Free Pride Flag yet can get one first. Please make a donation to support the program.
QWELL does not sell flags. You can purchase similar flags from local businesses like Bookwoman, the Little Gay Shop, Package Menswear, and others.
Your donation really helps! Our entire program is funded through generous donations from companies and individuals like you. Most people who get a Free Rainbow Flag chip in with a $10-$20 donation to help us provide flags to those who cannot afford one, but no payment or donation is required for you to get a Free Pride Flag.
Flag distribution will begin on June 1.
When you reserve your Free Rainbow Flag, you claim one flag offered by a particular sponsor. You must pick it up from that sponsor’s location.
If it is before March 31, you still have time to ask a Greater Austin-area business near you to become a flag distributor! If today is April 1 – June 30, you will have to choose from the available pickup locations and either find a way to get there or ask a friend to pick it up for you.
Sure! Please contact us to ask to change to a different Free Rainbow Flag. Also tell us if you are also changing pickup locations.
You need to pick up your Free Pride Flag from the location you selected. Your flag cannot be shipped to you. You can have a friend pick up your flag for you, though!
Absolutely! If you cannot get to your sponsor’s location in June, please send a friend to pick up your Free Pride Flag for you. NOTE: If they want a Free Rainbow Flag for themselves, too, they will need to sign up on this website to claim a flag that is still available and show their confirmation email to the pick-up location.
That is so kind of you! QWELL created this program to help us engage LGBTQIA+ and Ally residents of Greater Austin, so we need your friends and neighbors to please request their own Free Rainbow Flags using this website.
FreePrideFlag.com is a program of QWELL, Greater Austin’s LGBTQIA+ community foundation. QWELL has plans that will make Greater Austin the best place in the world for LGBTQIA+ people of all ages to live, love, learn, work, and play. LEARN MORE
Thank you! You can sign up to volunteer for QWELL at https://austinoutpost.org/get-involved! If you can, please also chip in a few bucks a month to QWELL or for all Greater Austin’s LGBTQIA+ organizations at PridePledge.org. All our charities need more support!
For Flag Distributors
Thank you! You can sign up to distribute flags for just $250 per pack of 10 Free Pride Flags in a single style. ($25/ea. vs $35/MSRP)
Yes! Your donation to become a Free Pride Flag distributor is tax-deductible. Your donation acknowledgment will come from QWELL’s fiscal sponsor, Austin Community Foundation, a 501(c)3 charity, and/or our donation processor, BetterUnite.
Ten (10) is the minimum number of flags you can distribute, but there is no upper limit! Use this website to build a selection of one, two, three, or all four flag styles for you to give away at your business.
QWELL will register Greater Austin residents to pick up their Free Rainbow Flags from you. (They must sign up on this website to reserve one of the flags you sponsored.) All flags must be given to individuals who have used this website to sign up.
Nope! You can choose to have QWELL distribute the flags on your behalf. You will see an option on the sign-up form to let us know if you want QWELL to give them away for you.
You may provide promotional materials QWELL will bundle with the flags you sponsored, like a business card, brochure, coupon, or other promotion (just like you might if they visited your business).
We will get the right flags to your pick-up location by the end of May so that people can pick them up starting June 1, the first day of Pride Month!
Sure! Free Rainbow Flags are a great employee perk! Those people just need to sign up on FreePrideFlag.com to reserve one of the flags you sponsored. All flags are the property of QWELL and must be given to individuals who have used our website to sign up.
QWELL will provide you with a poster to display and a post for your social media. Of course, your sponsorship will be visible on this website for the public to choose you as their pick-up location. You will also be added to (and get credit for your generosity in) QWELL’s GREATER app for LGBTQIA+ friendly businesses. You may be invited to speak to the press or provide written or video testimony about the program for promotional purposes.
Any unclaimed flags remain the property of QWELL Community Foundation. We can leave this webstore operational until all your flags are claimed, or you may return any remaining flags to QWELL for future distribution. We will be in touch to discuss your options with you.
You can only sponsor a 10 pack of Free Rainbow Flags of a single style. Mixing flag styles in a single pack is not possible. However, you can use this website to sponsor 10 packs of multiple styles of Free Pride Flags.
That would be a huge help! Please complete the sponsorship process and checkout for each location separately so that people can use this website to choose whichever of your locations is most convenient for them to pick up their Free Rainbow Flag.
Unfortunately, our FreePrideFlag.com webstore cannot split your sponsored flags among multiple locations. Please complete the sponsorship process and checkout for each location separately. That is the only way people will be able to use this website to reserve the flags they want from each of your business locations.
You are welcome to use this website to reserve one of your own Free Pride Flags!
QWELL’s Free Pride Flags are made in America by Annin Flagmakers. A family-owned business, Annin has been making flags since 1847 and is known as the premier flag manufacturer in the United States, with three factories in Virginia and Ohio. Since 2020, Annin has helped QWELL distribute 5,000 Free Rainbow Flags to residents of Greater Austin, Texas.
QWELL’s annual Free Pride Flag giveaway is one way we identify LGBTQIA+-friendly businesses and employers in Greater Austin so that QWELL can refer LGBTQIA+ residents to them. QWELL also uses anonymous zip code data about flag recipients to plan Community Center locations. And the program has an emotional impact! It feels good to give and receive the gift of a Free Rainbow Flag and to see rainbow flags flying all over Greater Austin.