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Asexuality and politics

Besides unsuccessful candidates George Norman and Joe Parrish, have there been other openly asexual politicians who have served in any public office or at least expressed interest in getting into politics, or do asexuals just seem further from purportedly taking over the world than other LGBTQI+ demographics at the moment? – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 23:19, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

While our article on asexuality doesn't seem to overview a political movement, I can find two bits of literature that might shed light on why: Catri 2021 review suggests that there's still no clear definition of asexuality, within the community or academia, which would present some difficulties forming an identity-based political bloc. Meanwhile Ceranowski & Milks 2024 Part II (you can find individual chapter pdfs on Google Scholar; here's the intro chapter) suggests that any meaningful asexual political movement is so far given only in theoretical terms (say in terms of bloc, issues, and goals).

All this combined with (per ibid) apathy or mixed feelings at best within the LGBT community, and general population, to the relevance of asexuality (should it be defined), and I don't know if a pragmatic politician would see anything but downsides in publicly identifying as such. SamuelRiv (talk) 00:21, 31 March 2024 (UTC)