Sexual orientation
Asexual Pride Flag
Also known as: Ace flag
What does this flag represent?
A person who experiences little or no sexual attraction, or who identifies with the asexual spectrum.
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Design Symbolism
The asexual flag formalised AVEN community colours into a four-stripe design spanning asexuality, grey-asexuality, allosexual connection and community.
Layout: 4 horizontal colour bands, read from top to bottom in the public asset.
- Black
- Asexuality.
- Grey
- Grey-asexual and demisexual experiences.
- White
- Allosexuality, partners or allies depending on source context.
- Purple
- Asexual community.
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Story and Usage Notes
Asexuality is a sexual orientation describing people who experience little or no sexual attraction, or who relate to sexual attraction through the wider ace spectrum. The Asexual Pride Flag was selected through an online community process in 2010 involving AVEN forum members and wider ace communities. Its black, grey, white and purple stripes draw on earlier ace symbols and are commonly understood as asexuality, grey-asexuality and demisexuality, allosexuality or allies, and community.
Timeline Connections
Origin and Provenance
- Introduced
- 2010
- Designer / attribution
- AVEN user standup
- Source confidence
- high
Created to give asexual and ace-spectrum communities a visible, reusable symbol for identity, solidarity and community recognition.
Ace Week traces the flag to AVEN forum organising, three stages of polls, and a final 2010 selection promoted beyond the forum to wider ace communities.
