What is Asexuality?
Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction felt by n individual. Some people don’t want a sexual relationship, but others do. The lack of sexual attraction isn’t relative to the want for a sexual relationship.
What is the asexual flag? Asexualityarchive.com > The Asexuality Flag
The flag is comprised of 4 colours. From top to bottom, the colours are: black, grey, white, purple. Each colour has a meaning.
Black is representative of asexuality.
Grey is representative of grey/demisexual.
White is representative of non-asexual partners and allies.
Purple is representative of the community.
The flag was designed by AVEN user Standup on June 30th 2010
What is AVEN? Yonah.org/channel/David-jay-AVEN-asexuality+
AVEN (The Asexual Visibility and Education Network) is an asexual community online that provides information for asexual people, as well as their families, friends, researchers, and mass media.
Aromantic vs Asexual
Aromantic is the lack of a romantic attraction felt by a single person.
Asexual is the lack of a sexual attraction felt by a single person.
While the two are very similar, they target different types of attraction and are not interchangeable.
They do come hand in hand in some cases, but one wouldn’t have to be aromantic to be asexual, and vice versa.
Anyone could be one, both, or neither.
QPR
A QueerPlatonic Relationship is a type of relationship that typically bends the rules for telling apart romantic relationships and platonic relationships.
The flag that is representative of queerplatonic partnerships is comprised of 5 colours. At the top is a pink stripe, followed by back, grey, white, grey, black, and pink. It often has a yellow heart in the center too.
Though that is just one design. There are other designs, but they all contain the same 5 colours.
(Wikia.org>lgbta>wiki>queerplatonic_relationship)
Queer platonic relationships are used typically by Aromantic and asexual people who don’t feel comfortable with a ‘normal’ relationship.
Both/all parties involved don’t have to be aromantic or asexual.
There is no one way to define a QPR, as they differ between each pair or group of people. They are different for everyone.
Books with asexual characters (queerbooksforteens.com)
Check out the website for more information on each book.
Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann
Quicksilver - R. J. Anderson. (It’s the sequel to Ultraviolet)
Trash Hearts Tolstoy - Kathryn Ormsbee
Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
The King’s Name - Jo Walton
Fourth World - Lysander Chiavari
Before I Let Go - Marieke Nijkamp
City of Strife - Claudie Arseneault
Media with Asexual Characters (Gaystarnews.com)
Check out the website for more information on each character.
Todd - Bojack Horseman
Raphael Santiago - Shadowhunters
Lord Varys - Game of Thrones
Brad - Faking It
Gerald Tippett - Shortland Street
Poppy - Huge
Voodoo - Sirens
Beth - The March Family Letters
Liv Flaherty - Emmerdale
Yuki Nagato - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Evan Waxman - High Maintenance
Kevin - Black Donnellys
Misty Day - American Horror Story
Father Noel Furlong - Father Ted
The Professor - Gilligan's Island
