You know, as anyone who has studied marketing will tell you, the items of lists that are most remembered by the public are the ones that come first and the ones that come last.

Writing that list for the prompt was not my attempt to equally represent all LGBTQ people, because that would have made the thing like three paragraphs long. But, equally, the way I worded the portion about asexuals was not to make it an afterthought but to give it prominence of place.

Our editor Esther Spurrill-Jones identifies as a bisexual asexual person, so perhaps she has more to say about the subject.

Valentine Wiggin has been serializing an allegorical piece of dystopian fiction on Prism & Pen with an asexual protagonist. Their next installment appears tomorrow or maybe the next day depending on how packed the queue is.

I think it’s fine for you to wonder whether asexual people should be included in LGBTQ communities. But no matter what you think, asexual people are included in the Prism & Pen community, and never as afterthoughts.