The Asexual Flag is a pride flag representing the asexual community created in 2010 by a member of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network, (AVEN). The flag features four equal-sized horizontal stripes. From top to bottom, the stripes are black, gray, white, and purple. The black stripe represents asexuality the gray stripe represents greysexuality and demisexuality, the white stripe represents alloseuality (or, sometimes, allies, and the purple stripe represents the community as a whole. The flag is often flown at pride events and is used to represent the asexual community. The flag has been widely accepted and has become a symbol of asexuality. History and design The origin of the colors of the asexual flag is the AVEN triangle , which was used in the past to represent asexuality. The original iteration of the AVEN triangle, made by David Jay was a black-bordered white triangle with the bottom third of it filled in black. The top of the triangle represented the Kinsey scale and the bottom point expanding the line to include asexuality. In 2004, Jay disavowed his original model of asexuality as being overly simplistic and restrictive. In 2005, the black-and-white triangle would be replaced with a gradient, to represent the spectrum of asexual orientation. The AVEN triangle would remain the primary symbol of asexuality, with some minor aesthetic changes. However, it was criticized for being associated with a website, rather than all asexuals as a whole. An alternate symbol was a half-filled heart, however, many Aromantic asexual criticized it as being unrepresentative due to it implying romantic attraction. In Summer 2010, a number of flag designs were proposed to fix this issue and were voted upon. The winning design was made up of four equally sized horizontal stripes in black, gray, white, and purple, the colors of the AVEN triangle, designed to match other pride flags with horizontal stripes. The black is to represent strict asexuality, while the gray is for demisexuals and grayasexuals , the white for alloseual allies, and the purple for the community.
