Cute pattern of cats, this time in ace flag colors.

I made an ace flag background design in different aspect ratios so you can use it on most devices.

I’m ace, but I’ve never felt that the standard asexuality flag—stripes of white, gray, black, and purple—represents me well at all, because it’s just so sadly drab. I am neither sad nor drab. But the color on my “pride” flag that represents me is ... pale gray? Woo hoo. I feel so ... celebrated. I feel so ... proud.

I feel invalidated by the current flag, because I feel that the asexuality flag defines aces from the outside, by the “lack” that other people see in us. The single stripe of color—the purple—in our flag isn’t even used to represent us: it represents our “sense of community.”

If we were going to identify the ace community by the color purple, then maybe our flag could be a gradient of various shades of purple. I wouldn’t mind celebrating my sexuality with a pale shade of lavender.

But I’m not going to let my sexuality be “celebrated” by someone else’s mourning for my “lack” of something “normal.” I wish we aces had been able to come up with a representation of ourselves and our diversity by something that came from within instead of something that came from without. I feel a little bit of sadness every time I see that asexuality flag, as if it represents pity instead of pride.

links in the source! 

That I know of, the Asexuality Pride Flag is always the same (black, grey, white, purple). The Aromantic Flag has yellow in it, many people draw the two flags together, maybe that’s what you saw?

Is anyone able to help me out? I’d like to have the Ace flag behind me in my avatar pic but I am unfortunately incapable with computers/photoshop...