Demiromantic Pride Flag

Identity Pride Flag · 2015

A pride flag featuring a black hoist-side chevron with horizontal white, green, and gray bands, created by Tumblr user Queer as Cat on March 9, 2015. The design deliberately replaced the purple of the demisexual flag with green to anchor the flag in aromantic-spectrum symbolism, making visible a distinction that had been obscured: demiromantic identity describes people who experience romantic attraction only after forming a deep emotional bond, and sits on the aromantic spectrum rather than the asexual one. The term 'demiromantic' was coined around 2008 on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) forums. ^[1]^[2]^[3]

current common green version (Mar 2015)

Key facts

Designer: Queer as Cat
Created: March 9, 2015
First documented public use: March 9, 2015
In use: 2015–present
Aspect Ratio: 3:5 · standard
Stripes: 3
Represented Identity: demiromantic

Also known as

Demiromantic Flag
Demiromanticity Flag
Demi Pride Flag
demiromantic
demiromantic pride

Status Canonical

Archive categories Sexuality Pride Flags

Overview

To distinguish demiromantic identity visually from demisexuality and make its aromantic-spectrum lineage immediately legible through the use of green rather than purple. ^[1]^[2]

The term 'demiromantic' was coined around 2008 on the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN) forums, emerging from conversations within the ace community about the difference between sexual and romantic attraction. The prefix 'demi-' comes from Latin, meaning 'half' or 'divided,' resonating with people who experience romantic attraction as conditional rather than absent or universal. A demiromantic person does not experience romantic attraction until a deep emotional bond has formed; forming such a bond creates the possibility of attraction but does not guarantee it. ^[3]

Early demiromantic flags used the same purple palette as the demisexual flag, which made them visually interchangeable and contributed to a persistent confusion: many people assumed demiromanticism was simply a variant of demisexuality rather than an independent orientation on the aromantic spectrum. On March 9, 2015, Tumblr user Queer as Cat created the current green version as an explicit correction, replacing purple with the green already established as the core color of aromantic symbolism. The revision was part of a broader aro-spectrum effort to establish romantic orientation and sexual orientation as separate axes with separate visual vocabularies. ^[1]^[2]

Identity & Context

Represented Identity: demiromantic
Subcommunity: aro spectrum umbrella

Creators

The Creator

Queer as Cat

Designer (current green version)

Queer as Cat is the Tumblr handle credited with creating the current common green demiromantic flag on March 9, 2015, as part of a collection of romantic orientation flags. The design was a deliberate revision motivated by a specific problem: earlier demiromantic flags had used the same purple color palette as the demisexual flag, making them visually indistinguishable and implying that demiromanticism was an asexual-spectrum identity rather than an aromantic-spectrum one. By replacing purple with green (the color already established as the core of aromantic symbolism), Queer as Cat made the flag's lineage immediately legible. The revision reflected a broader push within aro-spectrum communities to assert that romantic orientation and sexual orientation are independent axes of identity, not interchangeable categories. ^[1]^[2]

Motivations

To distinguish demiromantic identity visually from demisexuality
To make the aro-spectrum relationship clearer through green symbolism

Stated inspirations

Demisexual flag geometry (chevron + horizontal bands) adapted for aro-spectrum lineage^[1]
Aromantic flag's green color symbolism replacing ace-spectrum purple^[1]

Origin

Digital Origin: true

Digital origin; no verified physical location.

Created through Tumblr aro-spectrum design revision discourse in 2015. ^[1] ^[2]

Dates & Chronology

Year Created: 2015
Exact date: March 9, 2015
First public use: March 9, 2015
Period in Use: 2015–present

The green version became the standard demiromantic flag in community reference resources, appearing in the LGBTQIA+ Wiki, the Aromantics Wiki, Mid-South Pride's flag guide, and other aro-spectrum documentation. It is now the version most commonly encountered in pride flag guides and educational materials, though some older purple-toned versions still circulate. ^[1]^[3]

Demiromanticism is described within the ace and aro communities as an orientation on a separate axis from sexual attraction. A person can be demiromantic and allosexual, demiromantic and asexual, or any other combination, and demiromantic can combine with other romantic labels (demihomoromantic, demibiromantic, demipanromantic), since 'demi' describes the conditions under which attraction occurs rather than its direction. This treatment of romantic and sexual orientation as independent, sometimes called the 'split attraction model,' is associated with writing from the ace and aro communities. The 2015 shift from the demisexual purple palette to green aligns the demiromantic flag with aromantic-spectrum symbolism rather than demisexuality. ^[3]

Lineage

This is the aromantic-branch counterpart to the demisexual flag. It is visually parallel to demisexual, but the green revision makes its aro lineage explicit. ^[1] Unlike the demisexual flag, it is not ace-derived; the green revision exists precisely to mark aromantic lineage. ^[2]

Lineage tree

Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 3 records across 3 generations.

Ancestors -2: Aromantic Pride Flag (Yellow Center, 2014)
Ancestor: Aromantic Pride Flag
This record: Demiromantic Pride Flag

Colors & Symbolism

The flag adapts the demisexual flag's chevron geometry but uses green instead of purple to clearly signal aromantic-spectrum rather than ace-only lineage. ^[1]

Colour specifications and documented meanings for the Demiromantic Pride Flag
Colour	Hex	Meaning	Note
Black (chevron)	`#000000`	The sexuality spectrum.	Standard black
White	`#FFFFFF`	Platonic and aesthetic attraction, Queer/quasi-platonic relationships, and other non-binary relational space.	Standard white
Green	`#338A37`	Demiromanticism and the aromantic spectrum.	Widely circulating community consensus
Gray	`#D2D2D2`	Gray-romanticism and demiromanticism.	Widely circulating community consensus

This flag has no official digital palette. Color values shown are approximate.

Black hoist chevron / triangle: The chevron mirrors the demisexual flag's geometry while recontextualizing it for aro-spectrum identity.

The green replaces the purple used in demisexual symbolism in order to place the flag visibly in aromantic rather than ace-only lineage. ^[1] ^[2]

No official creator-published hex values have been found. Hex values shown are widely circulated approximations.

Design

Aspect Ratio: 3:5 · standard
Orientation: horizontal
Stripe Count: 3
Layout: chevron_with_horizontal_stripes
Stripes (Top → Bottom): White, Green, Gray
Additional Symbols: Black hoist-side chevron / triangle

A black chevron pointing rightward at the hoist, with three horizontal bands: white at top (widest), green in the middle (narrower), and gray at bottom (widest). The chevron occupies the left portion of the flag. Structurally parallel to the demisexual flag.

Usage & Adoption

Online Usage: Common current demiromantic flag in community reference resources
Event Usage: NYC Pride / WorldPride / Stonewall 50, June 30, 2019 (among very few documented public uses)
Current Status: active

This is the common current demiromantic flag in community reference resources, though older or alternate versions also exist. ^[1]

Discourse & Debates

Earlier demiromantic visuals were criticized for looking too ace-coded or too close to demisexual conventions, prompting the 2015 green revision ^[1]^[2]
Whether the split attraction model (separating romantic and sexual orientation) is universally useful or specific to ace/aro communities. The demiromantic flag's existence depends on this model being meaningful. ^[3]

Common misidentifications

Demiromantic is frequently confused with demisexual, both because the flags share chevron geometry and because mainstream culture often does not distinguish romantic from sexual attraction
Demiromantic is often assumed to be an ace-spectrum identity rather than understood as aro-spectrum

Common confusions

Sometimes confused with the demisexual flag due to shared chevron geometry, the key visual difference is green (aro-spectrum) versus purple (ace-spectrum)
The experience of 'needing to know someone first' is often trivialized as universal rather than recognized as the defining condition of a specific orientation

Criticisms

Some people question whether demiromanticism constitutes a distinct orientation or simply describes a common human experience, many people develop romantic feelings only after getting to know someone. Demiromantic community members counter that the distinction is one of exclusivity: a demiromantic person cannot experience romantic attraction without a prior emotional bond, whereas an alloromantic person may develop feelings conditionally but retains the capacity for immediate romantic attraction. ^[3]

The prefix 'demi-' from Latin ('half' or 'divided') captures the in-between quality of the identity: not fully aromantic, not fully alloromantic, but occupying a conditional space. Demiromantic is a subset of the grayromantic umbrella, which covers the full range of experiences between complete aromanticism and full alloromanticism. ^[3]

Footnotes & Citations

Sources and footnotes 5 sources

1. Demiromantic Pride Flag. Pride Flag Wiki (Fandom). Accessed 2026-03-09
3. Demiromantic. LGBTQIA+ Wiki. Accessed 2026-03-15
Aromanticism. Wikipedia. Accessed 2026-03-15
Demiromantic flag color codes. Flag Color Codes. Accessed 2026-03-30

2. Demiromantic Flag Revision Post. Queer as Cat. Tumblr (2015-03-09). Accessed 2026-03-09 [no stable URL]

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Image Sources

Rendering: current common green version (Mar 2015)

Demiromantic pride flag at NYC Pride (WorldPride / Stonewall 50), June 30, 2019. Referenced by Tomislav Todorovic (March 2020) as the only known real-life use of the demiromantic flag at that time. · Wikimedia Commons
Demiromantic pride flag at NYC Pride (WorldPride / Stonewall 50), June 30, 2019. · Wikimedia Commons