When I say that I’m asexual and attracted to men, I’m often perceived as simply being in the closet or afraid to admit that I’m “fully gay” or “want to have sex with men.”
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When I say that I’m asexual and attracted to men, I’m often perceived as simply being in the closet or afraid to admit that I’m “fully gay” or “want to have sex with men.”
I did not want it to seem that I was broken, unloveable, or that I somehow "grew incorrectly" and was therefore incapable of a relationship.
Toxic masculinity is still clouding my gender vision. I feel in my soul that I am a non-binary, but I cannot deny that this conclusion remains constrained - pushed and pulled by the toxic masculinity that has always surrounded and regulated my life.
“My body will be empty, and I will be asexual. My body will create a whole new person, and I will be asexual.“
When asexuality is unconditional it becomes far more difficult to confront, understand, and accept as legitimate.
Gatekeeping functions as a constricting and silencing force to certain groups that may be perceived as on the "fringes" of queerness…