Aromantic flag

Five stripes from green to black, with green chosen as the opposite of romance's reds and pinks.

What the colours mean

Dark green Aromanticism.
Light green The aromantic spectrum.
White Friendship and platonic or queerplatonic relationships.
Grey Grey-aromantic and demiromantic people.
Black The sexuality spectrum.

Why green

Green sits opposite red on the colour wheel, and red and pink are the colours most associated with romance. The choice says what the flag is about: a life that is not organised around romantic attraction.

Where it comes from

Several aromantic flags were proposed in the early 2010s. The five-stripe version on this page is the one in common use today. Earlier versions are sometimes still seen.

What it covers

The flag covers the whole aromantic spectrum, including grey-romantic and demiromantic people. The white stripe is a reminder that close, lasting relationships are not only romantic ones.

Aromantic people and dating apps

Aromantic people use dating apps too, often to find queerplatonic partners, friends with shared plans, or sexual partners without romance. Being clear about that in a profile is the kindest filter there is, for everyone who reads it.

Questions people ask

What do the aromantic flag colours mean?

Dark green for aromanticism, light green for the aromantic spectrum, white for platonic and queerplatonic relationships, grey for grey-aromantic and demiromantic people, and black for the sexuality spectrum.

Can an aromantic person be in a relationship?

Yes. Many aromantic people have close partnerships, queerplatonic relationships or sexual relationships. What they do not experience, or rarely experience, is romantic attraction.

In the glossary

Aromantic Queerplatonic Aroace

Other pride flags

Transgender flagLight blue, pink and white, in a pattern that reads the same whichever way up you fly it.Rainbow pride flagThe first pride flag, designed in 1978, and still the one most people mean by the pride flag.Progress Pride flagThe rainbow flag with a chevron that brings people of colour and trans people to the front.Bisexual flagPink, purple and blue, with the purple where the other two overlap.Pansexual flagPink, yellow and blue: attraction regardless of gender, with a stripe for people outside the binary.Asexual flagBlack, grey, white and purple, chosen by the asexual community itself in 2010.Demisexual flagThe asexual flag's colours, rearranged around a black chevron.Genderfluid flagFive stripes for a gender that moves: femininity, the absence of gender, the mix, all genders and masculinity.Agender flagSeven symmetrical stripes, with black and white for the absence of gender and green for non-binary genders.Genderqueer flagLavender, white and green: androgyny, agender identities and genders outside the binary.Intersex flagA yellow field and a purple circle, in colours chosen to be free of gender associations.Demiboy flagGreys, light blue and white: a partial connection to being a boy or a man.Demigirl flagGreys, pink and white: a partial connection to being a girl or a woman.