Asexual contingents to march in parades in London, Toronto this year
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American members of the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network will have the chance to march in the San Francisco Pride Parade later in June. President Obama declard June LGBT pride month.. The American AVEN members who will be in the West Coast are not the only ones who will march in the pride parades this year. Toronto and London contingents are marching in the pride parades in their own cities.
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AVEN to participate in San Francisco Pride Parade
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- Published on Sunday, 12 June 2011 15:47
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An Asexual contingent first marched in the San Francisco Pride parade in 2008. The group, sponsored by the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network, made history by being the first Asexual group ever to march in such a pride parade. Although the issue of whether or not Asexuals should consider themselves queer is not settled, a number of other Asexual groups have followed the lead set by AVEN.
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(A)sexual documentary to appear at NewFest in New York
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- Published on Friday, 17 June 2011 14:30
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(A)sexual debuts June 18th at the Frameline Film Festival. Aces who do not have a chance to see the film on the west coast can wait until July. Angela Tucker will screen the film at the Newfest film festival in New York, according to a rumor received by Asexual News. Sources close to the director said that she is “excited” to have the documentary get shown in her home town.
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Unitarian Universalist Association calls 'Asexuality' an emerging orientation
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- Published on Friday, 10 June 2011 13:51
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The Unitarian Universalist Assocations web page calls Asexuality an emerging sexual orientation, although the paper is listed as a draft. The last revision of the article occurred on June 2nd, 2010. Asexual News sent an e-mail inquiring about the wording used but has not yet received a response.
The Unitarian Universalist denomination does not have an official position on Asexuality. The churchs official website features a page explaining the basics of Asexuality. Asexuality 101 cautions that the page is a draft.
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Sociologist Mark Carrigan wants to form international panel on Asexuality at Sexualization of Culture Conference
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 June 2011 18:30
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Mark Carrigan, a sociologist who became interested in Asexual and Asexuality related topics plans to hold the what he hopes will be the first International conference panel. Ela Przyby and CJ Chasin have joined the panel. Carrigan tweeted that many sexuality researchers do not yet know about Asexuality, but often become fascinated by the topic once they become aware of it.
Carrigan hopes to hold the panel at the Sexualization of Culture Conference, scheduled to take place in December of this year. The conference will take place at the Institute of Education at the University of London.
Organizers have not yet decided on all of the topics that will come under discussion at the conference, but the official site has issued a call for papers on the subject. Other issues addressed include the sexualization of culture, how the availability of pornography affects society, how sexualization practices affect different groups in society and if it is possible to move beyond the panic and liberation debates that tend to dominate discussions about human sexuality.