Asexual Pride movement is growing fast

drunkmonkey

Some people still find it hard to believe that not everyone wants sex with another person - but the Asexual Pride movement is growing fast.

From the BBC, http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160621-i-have-never-felt-sexual-desire

Suggestions are there may be as many Asexual people as Gay people and often march in the Pride Parades.

Not sure how we should look after this group, lgbt don't like straight been rubbed in their face, straights don't like lbgt rubbed in either, how are we going to keep from offending the Asexuals?

Not to mention we'll be moving to LGBTIA shortly by the looks of it, seems to be at odds with Pride though.

The Sidewards Man

I bet they still finger themselves.

Can we just come up with an umbrella term for LGBTQIA? It'll eventually get to the point when more and more ones get added that you just lose track.

gramar

Asexual Pride movement is growing fast

...unlike their erections...

YFlyer

Is that their excuse?

I was asexual for most of my teens. Not because I wanted to be, but because I was a very awkward and gangly teenager.

smash

Asexual Pride... What have they got to be proud about?

smash

smash wrote: »

Asexual Pride... What have they got to be proud about?

"We're here, we're not having sex with anyone. We're here, we're not having sex with anyone".

Doesn't have that great of a ring to it ...

silverharp

Tumblr not even once

drunkmonkey

smash wrote: »

Asexual Pride... What have they got to be proud about?

Virgins, lots of them.

xabi

Is this like being Aethiest, you don't do something but still feel the need to label it.

reason vs religion

Well, vowels are welcome if "LGBT" is ever to become pronouncable

Howard the Duck

smash wrote: »

Asexual Pride... What have they got to be proud about?

I'm sure they are good at lots of stuff, what with all their free time.

Little CuChulainn

Howard the Duck wrote: »

I'm sure they are good at lots of stuff, what with all their free time.

and extra money

reason vs religion

Pride is a misunderstood concept. It is often interpreted as satisfaction with oneself from being better at something than someone else. I, a gay, often questioned when I was younger the justification for Pride events. But because the opposite of pride is shame - and many people, with lots of help from norm-enforcing society, are ashamed of some aspect of themselves - by creating an identity that embodies a shaming aspect and then celebrating it, shame is diminished and replaced with pride: a comfort, a confidence in oneself. The oft-mooted "straight pride" event is, then, preposterous because no one has ever been made ashamed of being the majority sexual orientation.

FTA69

W*nkers.

tigger123

I'd say it's difficult to live in such a highly sexualised society without feeling any connection to going what's going on around you. I'd imagine it can be a difficult place to be. Anything that opens up the conversation around sexuality and different peoples perspectives can only be a good thing. I'd hate to be a in a position where you feel you've to keep schtum all the time.

HensVassal

Deleted User wrote: »

"We're here, we're not having sex with anyone. We're here, we're not having sex with anyone".

Doesn't have that great of a ring to it ...

:pac:

"We're here, we're frigid! Our cocks are never rigid!"

evolving_doors

"Whadda we want: NO SEX
When do we want it: WE ALREADY HAVE IT ".

mansize

The persecution of the asexuals.

That being said asexuals would be part of the non standard sexual umbrella of lgbtq+

Speedwell

The acronym is now, I understand, QUILTBAG. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/QUILTBAG

SEPT 23 1989

a good dose of testosterone would sort that out

My name is URL

mansize wrote: »

The persecution of the asexuals.

That being said asexuals would be part of the non standard sexual umbrella of lgbtq+

Try telling the LGBT community that. I know a fella who is asexual, apparently he's just never been attracted to anyone sexually. They tend to get a hard time from the former crowd

Duggy747

Meh, I can see the merit from it's message that your sex drive shouldn't be the be all and end all that should determine the happiness of your life. That if you have a low or practically non-existant sex drive that you shouldn't feel like there's something wrong with you or that you're not fully human.

I dunno how well asexuals groups could mix with LGBT, though, considering how highly sexual many people in those groups are.

Pat Mustard

Bunch of twats going around marching for no reason.

It's the Orange Order, isn't it?

My name is URL

Duggy747 wrote: »

Meh, I can see the merit from it's message that your sex drive shouldn't be the be all and end all that should determine the happiness of your life. That if you have a low or practically non-existant sex drive that you shouldn't feel like there's something wrong with you or that you're not fully human.

I dunno how well asexuals groups could mix with LGBT, though, considering how highly sexual many people in those groups are.

It shows how ridiculous the existence of such umbrella groups is in reality (and this day and age) though, when they want to exclude people for being the 'wrong' kind of different

PARlance

HensVassal wrote: »

:pac:

"We're here, we're frigid! Our cocks are never rigid!"

Who are we: Asexual Pride
And what do we want: Not the Ride

mansize

My name is URL wrote: »

Try telling the LGBT community that. I know a fella who is asexual, apparently he's just never been attracted to anyone sexually. They tend to get a hard time from the former crowd

I'll tell myself so...

mansize

My name is URL wrote: »

Try telling the LGBT community that. I know a fella who is asexual, apparently he's just never been attracted to anyone sexually. They tend to get a hard time from the former crowd

Any evidence of that? I haven't seen it

NikoTopps

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Can we just come up with an umbrella term for LGBTQIA? It'll eventually get to the point when more and more ones get added that you just lose track.

There is an umbrella term, albeit one not advocated by all people - Queer.

It's actually what the first Q in LGBTQQIA+ stands for, the other being Questioning.

osarusan

mansize wrote: »

Any evidence of that? I haven't seen it

It's mentioned in the BBC article in the OP.

mansize

osarusan wrote: »

It's mentioned in the BBC article in the OP.

That one person wasn't aware of asexuality?

mansize

I have no issues with Asexual people I can't imagine many would

Stealthfins

Well I suppose the A sexuals don't offend any religion or establishment really.

mansize

As long as they don't marry and fail to procreate- that might annoy some religions

drunkmonkey

Speedwell wrote: »

The acronym is now, I understand, QUILTBAG. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/QUILTBAG

That's so much easier say, i'm sure someone is going to be offered though being referred to as a quiltbag.
Can just here George Hook saying it...

osarusan

mansize wrote: »

That one person wasn't aware of asexuality?

That when one person called a 'gay switchboard', they weren't given the understanding they might have expected from a representative of a community who had had their own struggles.

Maybe that's not what you were looking for evidence of?

mansize

drunkmonkey wrote: »

That's so much easier say, i'm sure someone is going to be offered though being referred to as a quiltbag.
Can just here George Hook saying it...

I think that's an umbrella name for the group. Not individuals

mansize

osarusan wrote: »

That when one person called a 'gay switchboard', they weren't given the understanding they might have expected from a representative of a community who had had their own struggles.

Maybe that's not what you were looking for evidence of?

Well gay isn't assexual - I know there are Lesbian switchboards that wouldn't best address male gay queries

drunkmonkey

mansize wrote: »

I think that's an umbrella name for the group. Not individuals

Yea a group, blessed be the quiltbags.

mansize

Do the asexuals get a hard time from the gays, straights or both My Name is URL?

mansize

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Yea a group, blessed be the quiltbags.

Quilt bag just feels hot and sweaty in this weather

osarusan

mansize wrote: »

Well gay isn't assexual - I know there are Lesbian switchboards that wouldn't best address male gay queries

Would they tell them that 'male homosexuality doesn't exist' in the way that the asexual person was told that 'asexuality doesn't exist'?

smash

I wonder if the church will be out to recruit?

mansize

osarusan wrote: »

Would they tell them that 'male homosexuality doesn't exist' in the way that the asexual person was told that 'asexuality doesn't exist'?

I thought it was they weren't aware of it. I would imagine that person the call would be screened and appropriate retraining etc

mansize

Anyway. I've no beef with the asexuals,so I'm out.

HensVassal

Pat Mustard wrote: »

Bunch of twats going around marching for no reason.

It's the Orange Order, isn't it?

That's just one colour in the rainbow flag

My name is URL

mansize wrote: »

Do the asexuals get a hard time from the gays, straights or both My Name is URL?

I don't think it's so much that they get a hard time from individuals. It's more groups that have had an issue with asexuals aligning themselves with them for whatever reason.

It says in that BBC article that things are changing now anyway, so maybe it's not as evident as it once was.

There's plenty of discussion and articles online about the subject. I'm just going off what I've been told by one guy so don't take what I've said as gospel.

MilesMorales1

I'm asexual and have been for as long as I can remember, zero sexual desire, zero romantic desire, makes it very hard to connect with people on a lot of levels. Can't say I'll be marching in pride about it though.

NegativeCreep

NikoTopps wrote: »

There is an umbrella term, albeit one not advocated by all people - Queer.

It's actually what the first Q in LGBTQQIA+ stands for, the other being Questioning.

I'm gay and had no idea there were any other letters than LGBT.

Who has time to learn all that? :L

smash

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Who has time to learn all that? :L

Social Justice Idiots.