Asexual contingent to march in San Fransisco pride parade

June 21, 2:13 PMPhiladelphia Asexual ExaminerShawn Landis

Gay Pride parades are not the first place you'd expect to find asexuals marching. Some people who identify as ace fall under the GLBT umbrella while many others do not.  Members of the queer movement have reached out to asexuals to include them in their community. The acronym for this has now become GLBTQA. (Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and asexual.) 

Perhaps the most important part of this years San Fransisco Pride parade, as far as asexuals are concerned is that for the first time aver Asexuals will be represented as a group in this parade. The other groups represented in the parade will have more floats and more representatives, but the inclusion of an asexual group in the parade has been described by the Queers United blog as historic.  The parade will take place on June 28th. 

The contingent sponsored by AVEN that will march in the Parade will make more people aware of this relatively small segment of the population. Little can be done to get people to stop thinking that people who simply do not want sex suffer from medical or psychological problems that causes this lack of desire. 

Some people that identify as ace feel they do not belong to the GLBT movement, as this thread on Aven indicates. The reasons for this are varied, but the primary motive is simply that the asexual community wants recognition of their orientation and asexuals unless they identify as homo-romantic or transgender are not discriminated against by society.