I hate this kind of phrasing. “Belong” creates so many weird implications to me. What is it “to belong” in a social sense? Conformity? Forced placement? No choice? Lgbt+ is a hugely extended community of groups society decided don’t “belong.” Maybe I’m nitpicking, but I hate the concept of belong. As if the lgbt+ is a company buying up valuable social real estate, or that ace people are buying land within such.
So, are ace people apart of the lgbt+, is a better wording for the question in my opinion. Which leads me to my next run in, every time I’m asked this it’s by someone trying to stir up trouble. When I’d answer honestly and simply I’d get the brunt of acecourse coming down on me – usually from both sides for one reason or another. I didn’t expand on something enough, I didn’t word something specifically right, I didn’t faulter on what I said, and at times have even had people claim I was saying the opposite of them when I had actually said exactly what they did.
I hate ace based discourse. I don’t like what either side has to say, but my every experience of it is people being needlessly vicious to each other. I’ve seen lots of homophobia, transphobia, and whatever the ace equivalent is.
And, I sit here and think, why am I prompted with this question again? After the last time I answered this question I was lead into long winded conversations where I was gaslit, suicide baited, and accused of being bigoted when I was saying the exact same thing as what the accuser had said to me (this was from both sides btw), why would I want to honestly talk about this?
Ever since I started interacting with lgbt+ communities, no one ever doubted ace people being amongst the community. Every event I go to i see ace pride colors somewhere and with maybe the exception of the Phoenix pride about 6 years ago. To my knowledge for almost a decade, ace people have been considered lgbt+. My very first run in with the idea they weren’t was on this Web site. So I’m honestly incredibly baffled at this question everytime I see it.
Of course they are.
Welp, this sounds hauntingly farmiliar. Every time I have posted about asexuality there have been a few people who have gotten extremely angry at me for what they claimed I had said, which was the exact opposite of what I had actually said. As well as loads of people who seemed to purposely misinterpret my posts or had clearly just read the first 3 lines of the post before sending me their hate mail.
I have never encountered this kind of over the top responses to asexuality outside Tumblr. While I have encountered a fair share of conservative LGBT people who resisted the use of words like LGBTIA+ and didn’t want the LGBT community spending time and energy on these issues, for the most part they have not been very passionate about this, more of an irritating nuisance.
At the same time asexuals themselves have been in the LGBT movement since forever and have over the last decade become more and more vocal about that and for a large part that has been successful because these were people who were already part of LGBT+ activism,
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