Asexuality
Lack of sexual attraction to others
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| June 9 2025 |
Heartstopper
Production began on the Heartstopper movie, which will be based on Volume 6 of the graphic novel series.
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| May 18 2025 | Kojima reveals the Death Stranding film is planned for a 2027 release. |
| April 22 2025 | Netflix confirmed a feature-length film adaptation of Heartstopper. |
| April 2025 | Death Stranding reached over 20 million players worldwide, including both sales and subscription service players. |
| April 7 2025 | Michael Sarnoski was announced as the director of the Death Stranding film, with Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen signing on as producers. |
| April 6 2025 |
Discrimination against asexual people
J.K. Rowling publicly criticized the inclusion of 'asexual' in the LGBTQIA+ umbrella on Twitter (X), making dismissive comments about International Asexuality Day and denying asexuality as a valid sexual identity.
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| 2025 | Won GLAAD Media Awards in the Outstanding Kids and Family Programming – Live Action category for Heartstopper Season 3. |
| 2025 | Daniel Edwards and Lucy Allen are pending nomination for Outstanding Casting for a Live-Action Program at the Children's and Family Emmy Awards. |
| 2025 | Heartstopper Season 2 is pending nomination for Outstanding Teen Series at the Children's and Family Emmy Awards. |
| 2025 | Alice Oseman is pending nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Young Teen Program at the Children's and Family Emmy Awards. |
| 2025 | Heartstopper Season 3 won the Queerty Awards in the TV Comedy category. |
| 2025 | Death Stranding 2: On the Beach announced for development and scheduled release on PlayStation 5. |
| 2024 |
Split attraction model
Michael Paramo published a book arguing that splitting attraction can help people re-imagine relationships by challenging hierarchical perspectives on different types of attraction.
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| 2024 |
Fictosexuality
Yuu Matsuura established the awareness organization 'Fictosexual Perspective' in Japan to archive experiences and thoughts of fictosexual individuals.
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| 2024 | Publication of 'Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Agender Identity', continuing the ongoing discourse and literature about asexual experiences. |
| 2024 |
Heartstopper
Heartstopper: Volume 5 was nominated for GLAAD Media Awards in Outstanding Graphic Novel/Anthology category
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| 2024 |
Heartstopper
Heartstopper: Volume 5 won the Goodreads Choice Awards in Best Young Adult Fiction category
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| 2024 | Adiescar Chase was nominated for Best Original Music: Fiction at the British Academy Television Craft Awards. |
| 2024 | Heartstopper Season 2 won the Queerty Awards in the TV Comedy category. |
| 2024 | Yasmin Finney was nominated for Best Actress at the TV Choice Awards. |
| 2024 | Kit Connor was nominated for Best Actor at the TV Choice Awards. |
| 2024 |
Media portrayal of asexuality
In the series Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, Karl Lagerfeld (played by Daniel Brühl) is portrayed as asexual.
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| 2024 | Heartstopper Season 2 wins the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids and Family Programming – Live Action. |
| 2024 | Heartstopper Season 3 wins the Velma Awards for Best Queer Show You Wish Existed When You Were Growing Up. |
| November 2024 | Death Stranding released for Amazon Luna and Xbox Series X/S. |
| October 3 2024 | The third season of Heartstopper was released on Netflix. |
| October 1 2024 |
Heartstopper
Chapter 8 'Forever' is set to begin publication, anticipated as the final chapter of the Heartstopper webcomic.
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| September 27 2024 | Família é Tudo concluded its run on TV Globo, completing its broadcast run |
| September 17 2024 | Trailer for the third season was released. |
| May 13 2024 | Teaser and release date for the third season were announced. |
| April 2024 | Jonathan Bailey and Eddie Marsan join the cast as Jack Maddox and Geoff respectively for the third season. |
| April 23 2024 | Sucker for Love: Date to Die For was released for Microsoft Windows, serving as the sequel to Sucker for Love: First Date and a loose adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth. |
| April 6 2024 |
Asexual history
Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro issued an official recognition of April 6, 2024 as Asexuality Day.
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| March 2024 | Olivia Colman announces she will not return for the third season due to other commitments. |
| March 4 2024 | Família é Tudo (All About Family) premiered on TV Globo, a Brazilian telenovela created by Daniel Ortiz |
| February 2024 | Hayley Atwell joins the cast of Heartstopper. |
| 2023 |
Asexual history
Yasmin Benoit became the first openly asexual grand marshal for NYC Pride.
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| 2023 | Rebecca Jones of Rock Paper Shotgun identified the game as one of her most anticipated titles of 2023, noting it was part of a planned trilogy following the first game. |
| 2023 |
Split attraction model
A study was conducted highlighting the widespread misunderstanding about the concurrent existence of different forms of attraction both within and outside the LGBTQ community.
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| 2023 | Two significant books were published: 'Ace and Aro Journeys: A Guide to Embracing Your Asexual or Aromantic Identity' and 'Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else'. |
| 2023 |
Heartstopper
The Heartstopper Yearbook was nominated for British Book Awards in Children's Illustrated Book of the Year category
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| 2023 |
Heartstopper
Heartstopper: Volume 1 won the TikTok Book Awards in Best Book I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time category
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| 2023 |
Heartstopper
The Heartstopper novels were pulled from shelves in at least two U.S. school districts: Clay County, Florida and Canby, Oregon.
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| 2023 |
Heartstopper
Heartstopper: Volume 4 was nominated for GLAAD Media Awards in Outstanding Graphic Novel/Anthology category
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| 2023 |
Beatrice the Sixteenth
A new edition of the book was published by Mint Editions.
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| 2023 | Joe Locke wins the Queerty Awards for Performance – TV. |
| 2023 | Heartstopper Season 1 wins the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids and Family Programming – Live Action. |
| 2023 | Kit Connor wins the Royal Television Society Programme Award for Leading Actor: Male. |
| December 2023 | Filming for Heartstopper Season 3 was completed. |
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