Aromantic (Aro)

A person who does not experience romantic attraction to others.
The flag has five equally sized stripes. The meanings of the colours selected are:

green-light green – the aro-spectrum (and aromanticism itself represented by green because green belongs to us now hell yeah). this covers every identity under the aro umbrella – demi, grey, lith/akoi, wtf/quoiro, cupio etc. EVERYTHING. even ones that don’t have names yet.

white – basically the ‘platonic’ stripe – friendship/platonic and aesthetic attraction/queerplatonic relationships/family, the importance and validity of all non-romantic relationships and feelings and non-romantic forms of love etc. etc. etc. etc.

black-grey – the sexuality spectrum – acknowledging aro-aces, aromantic allosexuals, and everything in between because we are a diverse lot.

Linked terms: asexual, romantic orientation, alloromantic, greyromantic, demiromantic,

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Gillian McInerney (she/they) is a queer femme from Dublin, Ireland. Her interest in lavender linguistics came about accidentally when procrastinating college work in 2013 and Alphabet Soup has grown since then. In their spare time they can be found delivering workshops, cultivating a fabulous jumper collection, and attempting to take a day off.

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