LGBTQ+ Ally Flag for Monogamous Cishets

Overview

Cryptocrew uploaded the 800 by 800 PNG to the LGBTA Fandom Wiki at 09:51 UTC on 22 January 2021. ^[1] At 09:53 UTC the account added it to the Allies gallery under the caption “LGBTQ+ Ally flag for Monogamous Cishets (coined by Cryptocrew)”. ^[2] The file was imported into the successor wiki in January 2022, preserving the earlier revision history and attribution. ^[3]

Identity & Context

Represented Identity

Monogamous cishet ally

Language Context

The title uses cishet for cisgender and heterosexual, and monogamous for a one-partner relationship model. Cryptocrew presented the design as an ally flag. ^[2] These descriptors do not by themselves establish that someone is outside every LGBTQIA+ community, and allyship describes supportive conduct rather than an automatic consequence of identity. PFLAG notes that LGBTQIA+ people can also act as allies to other people within the community. ^[4]

Creators

The Creator

Attribution notes

The original file revision records Cryptocrew as the uploader at 09:51 UTC on 22 January 2021. ^[1] Two minutes later the same account added the image to the Allies gallery with a caption crediting Cryptocrew. ^[2] These creator-authored revisions establish the account, the date, the title and the source image directly.

The historical Allies page associates the name William with two other flags credited to the same account, but its caption for this design credits Cryptocrew. The structured creator name is therefore Cryptocrew, and William is not attached to this image without a contemporaneous credit naming him for it. ^{[2] [5]}

No reusable portrait of the creator has been located, and no place of creation is documented.

Origin

Specific Place

LGBTA Fandom Wiki

Place Type

wiki

Digital Origin

Yes

Origin Type

digital

Physical Origin Status

unknown

Digital origin on a wiki. No physical place of creation is documented.

Published on the LGBTA Fandom Wiki by the account Cryptocrew. ^[1] The record and the image later moved to the LGBTQIA+ Wiki on Wikitide, which preserves the earlier revision history. ^[3] No physical place of creation is documented, and none is plotted.

Dates & Chronology

Year Created

2021

Exact date

January 22, 2021

First published

January 22, 2021

Documented record

Published 22 January 2021; the artwork survives in later archives

Creation Bounds

Cryptocrew uploaded the 800 by 800 PNG at 09:51 UTC on 22 January 2021. ^[1] At 09:53 UTC the same account added the image to the Allies gallery under the title preserved here. ^[2] The file was imported into the successor wiki in January 2022, carrying the earlier revision history and attribution with it. ^[3] Publication dates the design’s appearance; nothing records when it was drawn.

The surviving evidence documents publication and continued archiving, not broad adoption. The image remained available through the LGBTA Fandom Wiki’s migration to the LGBTQIA+ Wiki and is reproduced here. ^{[3] [5]} No independent community use, organizational adoption, physical flag, event appearance or merchandise record has been verified.

Lineage

Related flags

Straight Ally Pride Flag, qPoC/tPoC White Cishet Ally Flag

No creator-stated parent design is documented. The artwork visibly draws on familiar rainbow, transgender and ally-flag forms, including the A-shaped ally motif of the Straight Ally Pride Flag, but Cryptocrew supplied no lineage statement in the surviving revisions, so those relationships are recorded here as visual comparisons rather than as documented parentage. ^{[1] [2]}

The same account’s Polyamorous Ally Flag for Cishets and qPoC/tPoC White Cishet Ally Flag belong to its January 2021 group of ally designs. They are companion works rather than ancestors. ^[5]

Colors & Symbolism

Cryptocrew published no symbolism statement in the surviving revisions. ^{[1] [2]} The palette resembles those of the Rainbow and Transgender Pride Flags, which is a visual observation rather than a creator statement, and the meaning of the magenta and dark blue unit at the top centre is not documented.

Dominant flat fill measured from the original 800 by 800 PNG. ^[1]

The colour table below records each colour’s visible role in the composition rather than an assigned meaning, because no meaning has been published for any of them.

Cryptocrew did not publish a colour specification or a symbolism statement in the surviving revisions. These thirteen values are the dominant flat fills measured from the original 800 by 800 PNG. Additional blended pixels in the file come from raster antialiasing and are not separate palette colours: the values #FC7C4E and #2CB5AD, previously recorded here as the orange and teal specifications, occur only along edges and never as a filled area. ^[1]

Design

Aspect Ratio

1:1 · original source file

Orientation

square

Layout

nested_bands_with_chevron

Additional Symbols

Nested black and white ally chevron, Magenta and dark blue vertical elements at the top centre

Six nested rectangular bands frame the composition, running inward through crimson, orange, yellow, light green, teal and purple. The inner field uses five horizontal bands in light blue, pink, white, pink and light blue. Behind the central chevron, the upper centre contains a magenta vertical band flanked by dark blue bands and charcoal outlines. A large nested black and white ally chevron rises from the lower edge toward the upper centre, occupying most of the image’s height. ^[1]

A square ally flag: six nested rainbow-colour border bands around a light blue, pink and white striped field, with magenta and dark blue vertical elements at the top centre and a large nested black and white ally chevron through the middle.

Usage & Adoption

Online Usage

LGBTA Fandom Wiki, LGBTQIA+ Wiki (Wikitide)

Current Status

Creator-posted proposal; independent adoption not established

The surviving evidence documents publication and continued archiving, not broad adoption. No independent community use, organizational adoption, physical flag, event appearance or merchandise record has been verified. ^{[3] [5]}

Image Archive

Original artifact and archive mirror

Discourse & Debates

Common misidentifications

• Not a straight pride symbol. Cryptocrew catalogued the design as an LGBTQ+ ally flag. ^[2]
• “Monogamous Cishet Ally Flag” is a descriptive archive alias, not a separate creator-published name. The title Cryptocrew used is preserved above. ^[2]

The historical title names a specific intended ally audience, but allyship is not guaranteed by being cisgender, heterosexual or monogamous. Current community glossaries describe allyship as an ongoing practice of support and action, and recognize that LGBTQIA+ people may also act as allies to other parts of the community. ^[4] Cryptocrew’s title is preserved as historical evidence rather than as a definition.

Editorial note

Status is recorded as a variant in the archive’s controlled vocabulary. In plain terms it is a creator-posted ally-flag proposal whose adoption is not established.

Footnotes & Citations

Image Sources

Rendering

Creator-uploaded file, 2021

• The original ally flag uploaded by Cryptocrew: 800 by 800 PNG, at 09:51 UTC on 22 January 2021. The copy held here is byte-for-byte identical, a technical mirror with no new rights claim. ^[1] · Credit: CryptocrewRights No explicit asset-specific reuse licence has been located for the original artwork. The host wiki’s content terms cover its page text; a migrated hosting record is not evidence that Cryptocrew separately dedicated the artwork under an unrestricted licence.
• The first located public gallery listing, at 09:53 UTC, captioned “LGBTQ+ Ally flag for Monogamous Cishets (coined by Cryptocrew)”. ^[2] · Credit: Cryptocrew, on the Allies pageRights Page text is subject to the host wiki’s stated content terms, which are separate from the underlying image.
• A 1200 by 1200 preview rendering of the original artwork, ratio 1:1. Technical derivative with no new rights claim. · Credit: Encycloflaggia technical derivative
• The original artifact: Cryptocrew’s 800 by 800 PNG, uploaded to the LGBTA Fandom Wiki at 09:51 UTC on 22 January 2021. The copy shown is the Encycloflaggia archive mirror, byte-for-byte identical to the surviving source file. No explicit asset-specific licence has been located. ^{[1] [3]} · Credit: Cryptocrew · Original file revision