Why I Support Including Asexual People in the LGBTQ Community

[@yasdnilgoth4100]

Thank you for supporting ACE! I 100% agree with your reasons :D

[@AlexZorach]

Of course, and thank you for watching and commenting!

[@yasdnilgoth4100]

@@AlexZorach To be honest, there is a LGTBQ safe place at the university where they welcome everyone to hang out. However, I feel out of place because I was told by a few students that Asexuality is not included in the LGTBQ+ community. I haven't said anything to the people in charge of the place since I want to avoid any confrontation. So, I have been trying to research whether or not Asexuality is included. I have found a lot of videos that do support Ace to be included. Yours are one of the many in which I felt reassuring.

[@highclassd0mme380]

I definitely find useful language within the ace community.. I’m pansexual but thinking I may be grey or demi as well but I’m still figuring myself out

[@AlexZorach]

Good luck with your searching!

[@sylviaodhner]

Thanks Alex! I like what you have to say here. I'm glad you've found the experiences of asexual people like me to be so insightful. =)

[@AlexZorach]

Thanks! You were definitely one of the people I had in mind when I made this video, and I've hugely appreciated your perspectives on sexuality and gender.

[@CreatedbyJonah]

Were you the same composer who made Fugue in B Minor? Because I don’t know what this is based on and that was on Krazy Krok’s BEMC Concert Hall.

[@AlexZorach]

Wow, yes, I did write a Fugue in B minor, wow, that was years ago! I haven't written any music in years, but I might get back to it some day. I am still really into music and I have been doing some interesting things like trying to master learning 31-tone equal temperament (I run 31et.com ) and I would love to some day go back and start writing fugues in that tuning!!!

[@Ryan-xi4fu]

Thanks for speaking up, i identify as Asexual, but its more complicated then that, WAY more complicated, but apparently i dont belong to LGBT?, smh....

[@AlexZorach]

This video is now 6 years old...these days I see a clear consensus, at least among LGBTQ people I come into contact with or interact with, to include asexual and other ace-spectrum people in the LGBTQ community. Has anyone told you otherwise recently?

[@crazitaco]

Wow, I never even thought about it like that, great argument! We really should focus on forming this mutualistic relationship with the rest of lgbt+

[@CasainQ]

I say we should keep being excluded, just let us eat our cake

[@加藤瑞穂-y6b]

Omg I’m really surprised because I know you. I met you at Nihongo table at UD last year!!!!

[@siginotmylastname3969]

You rock and your channel rocks 😊

[@yaixieez]

I feel so out from this community but at the same time there's people like u that make me feel better💖 we feel oppressed too but obviously not that much, people say to us like I'm gonna makes u straight or gay and that really makes me angry

[@tylerketchum]

Thank you 💜🖤🤍

[@Ithel-gd7ex]

That is not what asexual means though. Unless they can self duplicate, they should be calling themselves that because it's confusing.

[@AlexZorach]

The term "asexual" has been widely used to mean "people who do not experience sexual attraction" for well over two decades now. This definition is widely-accepted by mainstream dictionaries, see 3b in Merriam Webster: www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/asexual Or definition 2 on dictionary.com which uses Random House as its source: www.dictionary.com/browse/asexual Or definition 3 of the American Heritage dictionary: ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=asexual These are probably the three best-respected dictionaries, so if you don't like this meaning being accepted into the mainstream, you've already lost that battle. These are as mainstream and authoritative as it gets. Words can and do have multiple meanings. It is clear from context that I am referring to this meaning and not the biological definition. If you continue to post ill-informed takes stated as fact, I will ban you from the channel. I don't know what your intent here, but arguing over semantics in such a way that erases important concepts and identities tends to come across as discriminatory and hostile towards those identities. One of the biggest forms of discrimination asexual people face is erasure, and your comment is a prime example of it. I don't want to assume bigoted intent, but I will point out that comments like this come across as bigoted and they are thus not welcome on this channel. This channel is a place for active discussion and sharing of perspectives. I welcome disagreement so long as people are speaking from experience and doing their best to be truthful in their speech. It is not a place for people to push egregiously untruthful perspectives by stating them as fact. If your perspective could be verified to be untrue in less than a minute by a simple web search, as this comment could, then it is not welcome here.

[@mammut4264]

Nice video!

[@maxmerkulov3085]

Thanks sir