Gai is defined as an orientation that is gay but in a uniquely non-binary way. It describes attraction experienced by a non-binary person that one considers to be gay or otherwise non-straight, but is not towards the same gender (due to the nature of non-binary genders). This can mean several things based on the nature of one's gender and how one views their attraction. A non-binary person may consider only some of their attractions to be not-straight, or all of them to be so. They may identify as NBLM, NBLW, NBLNB or any other orientation in addition to being gai.
The term was intended to be similar in meaning to queer but specific to non-binary people and attraction. It has a similar meaning to diamoric.
This may be used interchangeably with symmaic in some cases, however some may consider it different due to gai having the possibility of be attracted to one or both of the binary genders in what one considers to be a gay way (for example, a demiboy attracted to demiboys and men) while symmaic might only refer to attracted to other non-binary genders, depending on the definition.
History
It is unknown when the term was coined, however it has been used since early 2018.[1]
Flags
The gai flag was designed by Tumblr user Orbisian-prinxess some time around December 24, 2017[2]. Orange is for solarians, yellow is for non-binary people in general, green is for stellarians, blue is for multi-attracted non-binary people who feel gai towards more than one gender, purple is for lunarians.
The alternate flag was coined by Cryptocrew on February 5th of 2021. Dark blue represents masculine genders and possible attraction to men, light blue represents peace and kindness, green represents agender/genderless people, pale yellow represents outherine/xenic genders and romance, white represents those who feel gai to multiple genders and multigenders/genderfluid people, black stands for any gender or attraction that falls out of these categories, light pink represents sexual attraction, dark pink represents feminine genders and possible attraction to women, light purple represents culturally specific genders, and dark purple represents androgynous genders. The rainbow represents community and queerness.