Asexual Pride Flag

History

The Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) adopted the Asexual Pride Flag in 2010 after an online community vote. AVEN, founded by David Jay in 2001, had spent nearly a decade building asexual community infrastructure before the flag emerged. The design drew on AVEN's existing purple and black branding. The grey stripe was a deliberate nod to grey-asexual and demisexual people, who experience limited or conditional sexual attraction and had often been sidelined in both asexual and broader LGBTQ+ spaces. The flag gave visibility to a community that had struggled to gain recognition even within LGBTQ+ movements.

Colors

black, grey, white, purple

Black = asexuality; grey = the grey area between sexual and asexual (grey-asexual and demisexual); white = non-asexual partners and allies; purple = community.

Symbols

four horizontal stripes

The black-to-white gradient from top acknowledges a spectrum from full asexuality to more fluid adjacent identities.