I think that this needs to be clarified: Ace and aro people are not INHERENTLY LGBT. However, if ace/aro people are lesbian, gay, bi, or trans(lumping all genders that are NOT cisgendered under trans) they are LGBT. On the other hand, if you are a straight, cisgendered ace/aro, you are not LGBT.
The LGBT community is not a club, despite how popular and open it is these days. It is for combating homophobia and transphobia. It is still illegal to be LGBT in several places. It isn't fun.
gotta say a whole lotta asexual problems stem much more from misogyny and the whole family values bullshìte than something even remotely mirroring homophobia
>bisexual (a.): being sexually attracted to both men and women
and if anyone forgot homosexual (a.): being attracted to one's own sex
so as we can see, saying that an asexual belongs to a community that is DEFINED by their sexual attraction is a paradox. The exception of course would be a trans asexual person, so to be more accurate, cis asexuals do not belong is the lgbt community. LGBT is NOT a catch-all for marginalized groups.
Is this what all those civil liberties marchers, those great men who gave a sh!t, got beat and killed in the streets for... So some 19yr old turds, who never stood for a single fking thing in their little lives, could bicker about who can and can't be in some irrelevant imaginary club and what letters this little tea party can put in the name? God damn disgrace you lot are.
really slick how you a. rephrased it to prioritize gay men first instead of using the commonly accepted ordering of the acronym and b. dropped the T like no one would notice
that's it, that's the thread. if there's a place for the trans community within the lgbt one (and there is!) then there's a place for the ace community, as well. baffling to me that people would want to create even more division and exclusivity w/r/t something like this, but that's life.
The GLB community isn't just automatically accepting of every out-of-the-norm sexual preferences. In fact, it's very specifically about those who experience same sex attraction. By conflating the acronym, and, by expansion, the community, with people who don't fit that simple definition, then what's the point of identifying the community in the first place?
