Straight Ally Flag (vaultausir)
Ally Pride Flag · Published on the wiki 7 January 2021
An alternate Straight Ally flag first located on the LGBTA Wiki in January 2021. [1] It exchanges the standard design's elements, placing a plain white A-shaped device over six rainbow stripes. Wiki editors attributed it to Ausir of pronouns.page, later written as @vaultausir, but no primary creator statement has been located. [2][3]
Key facts
- Designer
- vaultausir
- Earliest located appearance
- Documented record
- Published on the wiki 7 January 2021
- Aspect Ratio
- 960:593 · apparent
- Ratio Notes
- Measured from the source artwork, 1,920 by 1,186 pixels; no proportion was published for the design. [1]
- Stripes
- 6
Status Variant
Archive categories Ally and Solidarity Pride Flags
Overview
An alternate Straight Ally flag documented on the former LGBTA Wiki in January 2021. It reverses the familiar ally construction: six rainbow stripes form the field, while a large white A-shaped device rises from the lower edge. The wiki first showed the image without a named maker on 7 January, then credited "Ausir of pronouns.page" on 17 January and "@vaultausir" on 22 January. [4][2][3]
The attribution remains secondary because no creator post or statement has been located. A companion cisgender ally image was uploaded seconds later and uses nearly the same A geometry over transgender-flag colors; a June 2021 Twitter thread also credits that companion to vaultausir. [5][6] These links make the attribution plausible, but they do not establish a precise creation date, origin place, symbolism, or documented adoption.
Creators
The Creator
vaultausir
Attributed designer
Credited by LGBTA Wiki editors as the designer of this flag and of the companion cisgender ally flag. The name appears first as "Ausir of pronouns.page" on 17 January 2021 and as "@vaultausir" on 22 January. [2][3] No post, profile archive or statement by vaultausir has been located, so the attribution is secondary throughout.
Attribution notes
The attribution chain, in order. The source image was uploaded to the LGBTA Wiki by the account Trashwoof on 7 January 2021; Trashwoof is the uploader, not the designer. [1] The first page revision to show the image called it another alternate ally flag and named no maker. [4] On 17 January an editor captioned it "An alternate straight ally flag by Ausir of pronouns.page"; later the same day the personal name was dropped, leaving a generic pronouns.page credit. [2] On 22 January another editor captioned it "Straight Ally flag by @vaultausir". [3] A separate Twitter thread credits the companion cisgender ally flag to vaultausir. [6] The paired files and the repeated community credits support the attribution; none of them is primary testimony, and the relation is recorded at medium confidence.
Origin
The image's appearance on the LGBTA Wiki does not establish that the design originated there. The generic pronouns.page credit that briefly replaced the personal name suggests an external source may once have existed, but no recoverable original page has been located. [2]
Dates & Chronology
- Earliest located appearance
- Documented record
- Published on the wiki 7 January 2021; adoption not established
- Creation Bounds
- On or before 7 January 2021. That is the earliest located public appearance, not a verified creation date. The source PNG was uploaded to the former LGBTA Wiki that day, the companion cisgender ally image seconds later, and the Allies page displayed both as alternate ally flags within the same minute. [1][5][4] The page first named "Ausir of pronouns.page" on 17 January and first used "@vaultausir" on 22 January. [2][3] A Twitter thread displayed as 30 June 2021 credits the companion flag, not this one, to vaultausir. [6] The file was imported into the successor wiki by a bot on 22 January 2022, a host migration rather than republication by the designer, and the current page's 6 September 2025 modification date belongs to that revision alone. [7]
The wiki page that carries this flag also records later objections to the black-and-white ally field, including alternates made at the request of The Chain Collective and a set of six made by a Tumblr user in August 2023. Those are separate designs with their own stated reasons, recorded here only because they share a page. No source gives a reason for this flag, and objections first recorded in 2023 cannot account for a design documented in January 2021. [7]
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Straight Ally Pride Flag
- Related flags
- Cisgender Ally Flag
A redesign of the Straight Ally Pride Flag that exchanges its two elements: the rainbow moves from the device to the field, and the device becomes plain white. The parent puts the ally's own black and white behind the community's colours; here the community's colours are the ground and the ally is the single flat charge upon it. The six-stripe rainbow is the component visual tradition the field draws on. [7]
This flag and the cisgender ally flag are a paired design family rather than one descending from the other. They were uploaded by the same account seconds apart, and the two files are drawn to nearly the same geometry on 1920-pixel-wide canvases of slightly different heights, one device white and the other black. [1][5]
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 6 records across 6 generations.
- Ancestors -5
- Original Rainbow Flag (1978)
- Ancestors -4
- Seven-Stripe Rainbow Flag (1978)
- Ancestors -3
- Rainbow Pride Flag
- Ancestors -2
- Heterosexual / Straight Pride Flag
- Ancestor
- Straight Ally Pride Flag
- This record
- Straight Ally Flag (vaultausir)
Colors & Symbolism
| Colour | Hex |
|---|---|
| Red | #F00000 |
| Orange | #FF8000 |
| Yellow | #FFFF00 |
| Green | #007940 |
| Blue | #4040FF |
| Violet | #A000C0 |
| White (chevron) | #FFFFFF |
Measured from the source PNG
No statement of meaning has been located. The inversion is visible in the design and is explained by no source read. [7]
Every value is measured from the source PNG. No designer palette and no colour meanings have been located. The white device reads #FFFFFF. Boundary rows between stripes carry blended values that belong to the rendering rather than to the design. [1]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 960:593 · apparent
- Ratio Notes
- Measured from the source artwork, 1,920 by 1,186 pixels; no proportion was published for the design. [1]
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 6
- Layout
- striped field with letter-A chevron
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet
- Center Symbol
- Plain white letter-A chevron rising from the lower edge to a point near the top
Six approximately equal horizontal stripes, red at the top through violet at the bottom, charged with a large white A-shaped device: a triangle rising from the lower edge to an apex near the top, with a triangular notch opening upward from the lower edge so the shape reads as the letter. The device carries no crossbar. Measured on the source PNG, 1920 by 1186 pixels: the apex sits on the centre line at 0.174 of the height, and the legs meet the lower edge short of both corners, leaving the field visible in each. [1]
The stripes are approximately equal. The 1186-pixel height is not divisible by six: six bands of 197 rows account for 1182, and the remaining rows are antialiased transitions at four of the five boundaries. Those blends are raster artifacts of the rendering, not additional design colours.
No construction sheet or designer specification has been located. The 3:5 shown is the archive's production specification, not a documented one: the source PNG reduces to 960:593, which matches no standard flag ratio and is a property of that file. Nothing indicates that vaultausir published a 3:5 specification. [1]
A six-stripe rainbow field charged with a plain white letter-A chevron.
Usage & Adoption
- Current Status
- Adoption unknown
No independent example of the flag being flown, displayed, manufactured or adopted has been located in the sources reviewed. The LGBTA Wiki and its successor reproduce the design as documentation, and a wiki reproducing a flag is not a case of its use. [7]
Discourse & Debates
The design answers the objection the wiki records against the ally format, that it puts the straight flag behind the community's colours, but nothing states that vaultausir made it for that reason, and the flag is undated where the objections are dated to 2023. If it belongs to the same period as its companion flag, it precedes them by two years. The resemblance is a reading of the design, not a documented motive. [7][6]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 7 sources
- 1. Community Source-image file revision, 7 January 2021. LGBTA Wiki. Accessed 2026-08-14
Establishes the upload date, the uploader, the historical filename and the source dimensions. It says nothing about who drew the image.
- 2. Community Allies, revision 40285, 17 January 2021. LGBTA Wiki. Accessed 2026-08-14
The first located caption crediting "Ausir of pronouns.page". Establishes when the name entered the record, not that it is correct.
- 3. Community Allies, revision 40287, 22 January 2021. LGBTA Wiki. Accessed 2026-08-14
The first located "@vaultausir" attribution and gallery caption.
- 4. Community Allies, revision 40283, 7 January 2021. LGBTA Wiki. Accessed 2026-08-14
The earliest located page display of the two alternate ally images. No designer is named in this revision.
- 5. Community Companion cisgender ally source-image revision. LGBTA Wiki. Accessed 2026-08-14
Establishes the paired upload time, the dimensions and the uploader for the companion image, and supports the visual comparison between the two.
- 6. Social media One Day A Flag, day 30: ally flags. Lili (@LJMLH2). Twitter (2021-06-30). Accessed 2026-08-14 · Archived version
A later third-party credit of the companion cisgender ally flag to vaultausir. It does not document this flag's creation.
- 7. Community Allies. LGBTQIA+ Wiki contributors. LGBTQIA+ Wiki (2025-09-06). Accessed 2026-08-09
The current Allies page. Evidence of the gallery's survival and of later community documentation. Its 6 September 2025 modification date is the date of that revision, not of the flag.
Image Sources
- Credit: Source rendering uploaded to LGBTA Wiki by Trashwoof; design attributed by later editors to vaultausir. Rendering author and rights not established.Rights Not established. No rights statement from the attributed designer or from the source-rendering author has been located. The wiki's general Creative Commons licence covers contributed page content and does not by itself establish the copyright status of an externally sourced flag design or image. The optimized files published here are technical derivatives of the historical source image, not newly licensed artwork.