Sexual orientation
Pattern of romantic or sexual attraction
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| April 6 2024 |
Asexual history
Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro issued an official recognition of April 6, 2024 as Asexuality Day.
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| 2023 |
Asexual history
Yasmin Benoit became the first openly asexual grand marshal for NYC Pride.
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| April 15 2023 |
Asexual history
The world's first in-person Asexual Pride Parade was held in Budapest, Hungary, with approximately 160 participants, organized by the Hungarian Asexual Community group.
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| 2022 |
Asexual history
YouTuber Jaiden Animations came out as aromantic and asexual in her video 'Being Not Straight', which reached over 20 million views and became the most viewed video on YouTube about asexuality and aromanticism.
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| 2020 |
Asexual history
Jaymee Mak, an allosexual woman, wrote, produced, and co-starred in the short film 'It's Not You. It's Not Me.', which was inspired by her relationship with an asexual man.
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| 2020 |
Asexual history
Rhea Debussy, an ace-spec transgender rights activist, became the founding executive director of the Ace and Aro Alliance of Central Ohio, Ohio's first asexual organization.
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| June 17 2020 |
Asexual history
The first Virtual Asexual Pride was hosted online via social media from June 17 to June 30, organized by Jaymie Doyle, to continue Asexual Pride for Ireland and Northern Ireland virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| 2019 |
Asexual history
Emi Salida, an 18-year-old British YouTuber who identifies as asexual, appeared in a Sky News documentary on asexuality.
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| 2019 |
Asexual history
Elizabeth Hopkinson, a romantic asexual author from Bradford, England, began rewriting classic fairy tales with asexual twists.
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| 2019 |
Asexual history
British soap opera Emmerdale featured its first asexual character when Liv Flaherty, played by Isobel Steele, came out as asexual.
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| 2019 |
Asexual history
Washington became the first U.S. state to officially recognize Asexual Awareness Week through a ceremonial proclamation signed by Governor Jay Inslee.
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| 2019 |
Asexual history
Yasmin Benoit became the first openly asexual woman to appear on the cover of a UK magazine in an issue of Attitude titled 'The Activists'.
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| 2018 |
Asexual history
BBC Three aired an episode of The Sex Map of Britain dedicated to asexuality, titled 'I Don't Want Sex'.
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| 2017 |
Asexual history
The podcast 'Sounds Fake But Okay' was launched, hosted by Sarah Costello (who identifies as aro ace) and Kayla Kaszyca (who identifies as demisexual and straight).
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| 2017 |
Asexual history
Nabil Allal and A'laa Yasin launched the 'Asexuality in Arabic' social media groups.
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| 2016 |
Asexual history
Michael Paramo launched the literary journal Aze to publish poetry, artwork, and personal and academic essays by asexual, aromantic, and agender people.
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| 2016 |
Asexual history
Joe Parrish became the United States's first openly asexual state election candidate.
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| 2015 |
Asexual history
Dr. Pragati Singh launched Platonicity, an asexual dating platform using Google Forms for manual user matching, which she closed in 2016 due to overwhelming data.
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| 2015 |
Asexual history
George Norman became Britain's first openly asexual local election candidate.
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| 2014 |
Asexual history
Dr. Pragati Singh, a gray asexual, launched the Facebook Group 'Indian Aces' for Indian asexuals.
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| 2013 |
Asexual history
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition modified the diagnosis of hypoactive sexual desire disorder to include an exception for people who self-identify as asexual.
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| 2012 |
Asexual history
The first International Asexual Conference was held at the World Pride event in London.
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| 2010 |
Asexual history
The asexual pride flag was introduced to the public, featuring four horizontal stripes in black, grey, white, and purple from top to bottom.
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| 2010 |
Asexual history
Sara Beth Brooks founded Asexual Awareness Week (now called Ace Week), an annual event occurring in the later half of October to celebrate and promote awareness of asexual, aromantic, demisexual, and grey-asexual identities.
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