A lot of ace people are LGBTQ. I typically go with the standard definition of “if you experience any significant same-sex attraction, you’re LGBTQ,” and just being asexual or aromantic doesn’t disqualify you from that. I would also consider people who experience no attraction at all (asexual and aromantic) as LGBTQ too, but that’s just me personally. But people who are asexual and heteroromantic or aromantic and heterosexual are not LGBTQ.
What I really objected to in that post was the idea of categorizing an HIV activism blog as “aphobic”
i think asexuality is obviously automatically included in category of People Who Do This Gender Thing Weird
That’s fine. Others would object to defining LGBTQ like that, but my opinion on this topic isn’t too strong, honestly.
basically, there are basically “LGBT as identity” and “LGBT as community” and maybe the third “LGBT as labels”.
Allies are in the second but not the first and might be in the third. asexuals are definitely in the third. The problem is when people try to draw huge equal signs between the three.
The third also has a whole bunch of different categories of people that many people from the second are mortified to even acknowledge.
When it comes down to it, people tend to use “LGBTQ” to mean “gender and sexual minorities”. Asexuality qualifies as a sexual minority, especially if it’s permanent or more-or-less someone’s default state.