Asexuality and the LGBT Community

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/lgbt-asexual_n_3385530.html

The above article discusses how some members of the LGBT community are fighting or against the inclusion of asexuality into their community. The primary argument is that asexual people, who generally don't experience a sexual attraction, do not face the same oppression or prejudice as gay or lesbian members. However, many asexuals are met with doubt when they are open about their identity. Even having others claim that they're repressed or have suffered a trauma rather than having just been born that way. There is also "corrective rape" in which people believe they can change an asexual persons opinions on sex by having them experience it. Clearly asexuals are repressed, but in different ways than a majority of the LGBT community. Does that mean the umbrella of minority sexual orientations doesn't cover them?

Posted by Briana Lynch.