What are the colors of the asexual flag? What to know about meaning and asexual identity
What are the colors of the asexual flag? What to know about meaning and asexual identity
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In the LGBTQ+ community, there are many flags that symbolize joy, pride and persistence. From the progress rainbow to the trans flag and the pansexual and intersex flags, each has its own meaning and history.
The asexual flag was created in 2010 to represent those who identify with the sexual orientation. Here is what to know about the Pride flag from its colors to its history.
What are the colors of the asexual flag?
The colors of the asexual flag are black, gray, white and purple. Each color has its own meaning:
Black: Asexuality
Gray: Gray-Asexuality and Demisexuality
White: Non-asexual partners and allies
Purple: Community
History of the asexual pride Flag
The asexual pride flag was created in 2010.
The Asexual Visibility and Education Network had a contest, allowing users on its forum to design a Pride flag, according to the University of Northern Colorado. The flag's colors were chosen because they are in AVEN's logo.
What does demisexual mean? Here's what it means for sexual attraction.
What does identifying as asexual mean?
Asexuality is an umbrella term, and being asexual exists on a spectrum. Those who identify as asexual may have little interest in having sex, but they may desire emotionally intimate relationships.
Other identities on the asexuality spectrum include:
Demisexual . People who form sexual attraction for another only when they have a strong emotional bond with that person.
. People who form sexual attraction for another only when they have a strong emotional bond with that person. Gray-A/Gray ace. People who identify between being asexual and sexual.
People who identify between being asexual and sexual. Queerplatonic. People who experience non-romantic relationships where there is an intense emotional connection going beyond a traditional friendship.
Those who identify as asexual also may experience emotional or aesthetic attraction to others.
More on asexuality: What people are getting wrong about asexuality (a lot)
What are the colors of the demisexual flag?
Those who identify as demisexual have their own Pride flag as well.
How and when the flag came to be is not clear, but the demisexual Pride flag features the same colors as the asexual flag: black, gray, white and purple. Its layout has a black triangle, a white stripe and a gray stripe with a purple line separating them.
The colors of the Demisexual Flag mean:
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