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There is no evidence the colors on widely used Pride flags represent minor-attracted persons. The white, blue, and pink on modern Pride flags represent the transgender community, as...
OMC is a democracy-based community for minor-attracted persons (MAPs) to give and receive peer support. OMC provides a safe, secure, and supportive environment for MAPs by ensuring personal privacy, staff transparency, and community-wide democracy.
In order to identify themselves, MAPs have designed a MAP Flag, which garnered widespread social media attention in July and August 2018, along with widespread attention for the term "Minor Attracted Person". Rumors had spread on social media, that MAPs intended to use the flag at pride events, and these fears resurfaced the following summer.
YAP Flag by Lilitha (2023). An alternate version of the MAP flag designed in 2021 that was shared by Yesmap/ Newgon, meant to cater to a broader spectrum of attraction. More recently, the Newgon site uses the 2023 merged version with a familiar mu symbol, explained below.
MAP has occasionally been extended to Non-Offending Minor-Attracted Person (NOMAP) or Anti-contact Non-Offending Minor-Attracted Person (ACNOMAP). A variation of MAP, YAP effectively references the same population by substituting "Youth". MAPs are signified by a map (🗺️) symbol, MAP Flag (see below), or Mu symbol (μ).
Welcome to Mu, a collaboration between thought leaders in the MAP (Minor-Attracted Person) community, and its allies. Set up in 2024, as an information/communication hub for the MAP community, we are aiming to become an umbrella organization for other such groups in the coming years.
Mu is releasing its own logos and symbology into the public domain, to better the visibility of Minor-Attracted People as a group. The flag we have chosen to represent our campaign is the 2023 "Union MAP Flag" with Mu symbol, designed by Jim Burton.
A Minor Attracted Person (MAP - sometimes styled alternatively) is a person who has a sexual preference for those defined as minors. A minor may be defined as being below the local Age of Consent (often -16+), Age of majority (typically 18), or below that age as observed in UN conventions.
Although a flag for “Minor-Attracted Persons,” or MAPs, has been used by some online users since June 2018, no Canadian LGBTQ association contacted by AFP was aware of the flag being used...
‘Minor attracted person’ or MAP is a widely acknowledged term used in the global Sex Offender Research and Sex Offender Treatment Community. To reiterate, this is not a term we invented, NOR is it a term used to rebrand pedophiles OR link them to the LGBTQ community.