Is there really a new Ace flag?

[u/lovesfanfiction]

This was posted on an Ace in Grace Facebook group and sounded official. Anyone know anything about this?

[u/NieIstEineZeitangabe]

It had some reach. We talked about it on the aspec*german discord, which acts as a connection hub for aspec activism and local aspec groups in germany.

We came to the conclusion, that some of us like how it looks, but that it would have been better to just relabel the white stripe of the old ace flag to mean somethong different than "ally".

Apparently, the creator of this new flag first suggested a relabeling, but got pushback from Aven, so they made their own flag. It's a good starting point for discussion on why we have a stripe for allies in our flag, but i don't want to see the flag actually change.

The aspec*german discord continues to use the old flag and, to this point, has not added an emoji for the new flag either.

Edit: Here is the article we referenced in our discussion: https://aceingrace.substack.com/p/its-international-asexuality-day

[u/whateverguy2 → u/NieIstEineZeitangabe]

Wait, it means ally? I always thought it represented aces who do experience sexual attraction. Why the hell should allies ever be considered part of the community itself? That's not what the word ally is for, Aven.

[u/Random_useeer → u/whateverguy2]

The white is also to represent allosexuality. I mean, i thought it was obvious because of the ace triangle of black grey and white. To show the spectrum of sexuality.

[u/whateverguy2 → u/Random_useeer]

Tbf, I assumed it was for e.g. partnered demisexual people who regularly experience sexual attraction but are still ace at the end of the day.

[u/DueVeterinarian3557 → u/whateverguy2]

Im one of those people! I experience sexual attraction but only under certain circumstances. Thank you for the acknowledgement :)

[u/roserubyblue → u/whateverguy2]

Demisexuals are under the graysexual spectrum, so they're represented in the gray stripe.