![]() ![]() I think there is a discussion around whether people who are ace and heteroromantic-romantically attracted to the opposite gender-should be considered queer. I have a line in the book that’s a little bit of a throwaway line, and maybe I should have elaborated on it more, where I say that today, overall, asexuality is accepted as part of the queer umbrella, of the broader LGBTQ+ umbrella, but it feels conditional in many ways. ![]() I’d love to hear you talk about the tension or the complication around understanding ace identity as fitting under the queer umbrella.Īngela Chen: I think that’s a delicate question. This felt really, really familiar to me as someone who was once a gay teen reading the tea leaves of the culture for some validation of the self. And they describe seeing this letter in the newspaper at age 13 and then stealing the newspaper from the dining room table. Rumaan Alam: One of the subjects of your book is an artist named Lucid Brown, who describes coming across a letter to Dear Abby from an asexual reader. ![]()
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