White: Non-asexual partners and allies.Grey: Grey-Asexuality and Demisexuality.This design avoids the unwanted connotations that specific symbols like a triangle or heart might have, it avoids any hint of national affiliation, and perhaps most importantly, it fits in with the striped designs of most other GSM pride flags. In the end, the simple, four-bar design was chosen. Some of the designs looked like country flags. Some of the other designs included hearts and spades and triangles and all manner of other symbols. The selected design was created by AVEN user standup, and first posted at 4:36 PM on June 30th, 2010. In the Summer of 2010, a number of asexuality sites, led by users on AVEN, came up with a number of designs for an asexuality flag, then held a multi-stage vote to determine the winner. The half-filled heart implies romance, which meant that many aromantics were uncomfortable using it. It’s the logo of a single website that not every asexual person is affiliated with. The AVEN triangle is, well, the AVEN triangle. Prior to its adoption, people would use things like the AVEN triangle or a half-filled heart, but those had problems which prevented their wider adoption.
The need for a flag was driven primarily by the desire to have a symbol that belongs to all of us, something that we could use to identify as ace and represent asexuality with that was not tied to a specific group.
