Re: Asexuals are being lumped in with LGBTQ? (LGBTQIA+)
I just found out! I want to go march for the right to be independent. I don't want to be lumped in with those other creeps.

And why does there have to be a plus next to the A in LGBTQIA+? It makes it sound like the asexuals are even more bizarre than the rest of the bunch of wierdos.

The fear for many queer people is less that allies might profit off them than that allies might change and defang what queerness means. The A in terms such as LGBTQIA+ typically stands for “asexual/aromantic,” but it’s often mistaken for “ally,” which is a sign of the danger here: People with no personal stake, facing no germane struggle of their own, not only join the club but also begin to define it. If heterosexuals become overly important in the gay movement, then it becomes harder to talk, with precision, about what the movement is actually for. The cause becomes more vulnerable to criticisms of faddishness, or of style above substance—of ROYGBIV and sequins as empty aesthetics. Its colors, in a way, grow duller.
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While the homosexual community has found getting their designation and stamp on them as something great, I think it odd that anyone that is considered to be different sexually is being marked and added to the list.

Shouldn't that just be a private bedroom matter? I don't know how I would feel even if I had to have a stamp on me that said "in religious celibacy at this time"

That is my personal sex business to be kept behind closed doors where it belongs.