Asexuality is a vibrant part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. It describes people who experience little or no sexual attraction, and it exists on a wide and diverse spectrum. Some asexual people are romantic, some are not. Some seek partnership, others do not. Asexuality invites us to rethink assumptions about intimacy, love, and connection, and in doing so, it expands our understanding of human flourishing. There is nothing lacking. There is nothing to fix. It is a whole way of being.

And yet, asexual people are often erased or misunderstood, even within queer and trans spaces. Their identities are questioned, pathologized, or ignored because they challenge dominant narratives about desire. But asexual people have always been here. They have organized, created, resisted, and led. Their presence and contributions call us to broaden our frameworks for belonging and to honour ways of being that do not conform to what the world demands.

Pride must make room for asexuality not as an afterthought, but as an essential part of the mosaic. Ace people belong, not because they match familiar models of queerness, but because they remind us that queerness has never had just one shape. Asexuality is not the absence of something. It is a different way of living fully, honestly, and with integrity. And that is something to celebrate!