Asexual flag
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| Use | Symbol for the asexual community |
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| Proportion | 3:5 |
| Adopted | 2010 |
| Design | Four equally-sized solid horizontal bars, from top to bottom: black, gray, white, purple. |
| Designed by | standup |
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The asexual flag is a pride flag that symbolizes attachment to the asexual spectrum and community. It was designed by user standup[1] on the AVEN (The Asexual Visibility and Education Network)[2] forum. The community voted for the flag's adoption and it officially won the vote in August 2010.[3]
Background[edit]
Throughout the early 2000's, AVEN was an especially popular forum for the asexual community.[4][5] The website's logo was an inverted triangle with a white to black gradient, designed based on the Kinsey Scale.[6] That logo's color scheme inspired the currently adopted asexual flag's colors.
Starting in May 2009 and continuing through to August 2010, users standup and Bristrek created a series of polls on the AVEN forums and spread to as many asexual communities as possible to design and vote on a flag to represent the community.[1]
In the first voting round, 53 designs were proposed.[7] What was referred to as the "A1 design" won with 41% of the community's votes.[3] The other proposed flag designs can be glimpsed at 4:14 in this video.[8]
Colors and Design[edit]
The flag's colors were adopted from AVEN's color scheme, and its simple stripe-based design was chosen such that its aesthetics matched other pride flags.[9]
Each colored stripe is intended to represent an aspect of the community[1]:
- Black — Asexual people (people who do not experience sexual attraction)
- Gray — Gray-A/Demisexual people (people whose sexual attraction fluctuates)
- White — Allosexual people/Allies (people who experience sexual attraction)
- Purple — Community itself (this color's inclusion originates from AVEN's color scheme)
The AVEN website logo.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Przybyło, Ela (2022-01-02). "Ace and aro lesbian art and theory with Agnes Martin and Yayoi Kusama". Journal of Lesbian Studies. 26 (1): 89–112. doi:10.1080/10894160.2021.1958732. ISSN 1089-4160. PMID 34463602 Check
|pmid=value (help). Unknown parameter|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Asexual Visibility and Education Network | asexuality.org". www.asexuality.org. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Asexual Flag: And the winner is..." Asexual Visibility and Education Network. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ "AVEN – The Asexual Visibility and Education Network". Stonewall. 2021-07-13. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ Brotto, Lori A.; Yule, Morag (2017-04-01). "Asexuality: Sexual Orientation, Paraphilia, Sexual Dysfunction, or None of the Above?". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 46 (3): 619–627. doi:10.1007/s10508-016-0802-7. ISSN 1573-2800. PMID 27542079. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "The Ace Flag: A History". Ace Week. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ "Asexual Flag Voting (First Round)". Asexual Visibility and Education Network. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
- ↑ WorldPride 2012 Asexual conference, Part 2a - Neth's talk on the flag, retrieved 2022-08-17
- ↑ "Asexual Flag Thread". Asexual Visibility and Education Network. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
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