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	People who identify as gay men have a male gender identity, and are attracted only to men. This word is applicable regardless of whether one or both people involved are cisgender men or transgender men. Some nonbinary people also identify as men to some degree ([[nonbinary man\|nonbinary men]]), and also usually experience attraction to men, and so they consider themselves gay.		People who identify as gay men have a male gender identity, and are attracted only to men. This word is applicable regardless of whether one or both people involved are cisgender men or transgender men. Some nonbinary people also identify as men to some degree ([[nonbinary man\|nonbinary men]]), and also usually experience attraction to men, and so they consider themselves gay.

	Overall, most gay men have used the rainbow pride flag to represent themselves, but since it can also represent the whole LGBTQ community, several proposals for a gay-man-specific pride flag have been made, many with explicit inclusion of nonbinary gay men. It is impractical to include all ~~the~~ proposed flags here, so the gallery below is only a selection of those which gained some popularity and have been stated to include nonbinary men. See also [[:Category:Gay man pride flags]].		Overall, most gay men have used the rainbow pride flag to represent themselves, but since it can also represent the whole LGBTQ community, several proposals for a gay-man-specific pride flag have been made, many with explicit inclusion of nonbinary gay men. It is impractical to include all proposed flags here, so the gallery below is only a selection of those which gained some popularity and have been stated to include nonbinary men. See also [[:Category:Gay man pride flags]].

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	Gay.png\|The rainbow pride flag, which can represent either the entire LGBTQ community, or specifically gay men.		File:Gay.png\|The rainbow pride flag, which can represent either the entire LGBTQ community, or specifically gay men.
	~~Gay_men_flag_~~-~~_Triton_7_stripe~~.png\|Designed in 2019, this flag has become the ~~commonest one~~ specifically for gay men. The seven stripes represent 1. Community, 2. Healing, 3. Joy, 4. [[GNC]], [[nonbinary]], and [[trans]] men, 5. Pure love, 6. Fortitude, and 7. Diversity.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Gay Man Flag \|author= \|work=gayflagblog.tumblr.com \|date=11 April 2022 \|access-date=15 May 2022 \|url= https://gayflagblog.tumblr.com/post/186181118619/gay-man-flag-russian-%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8-%D1%8F-portuguese}}</ref>		File:Gay men flag - Triton 7 stripe.png\|Designed in 2019, this flag has become the most common specifically for gay men. The seven stripes represent 1. Community, 2. Healing, 3. Joy, 4. [[GNC]], [[nonbinary]], and [[trans]] men, 5. Pure love, 6. Fortitude, and 7. Diversity.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Gay Man Flag \|author= \|work=gayflagblog.tumblr.com \|date=11 April 2022 \|access-date=15 May 2022 \|url= https://gayflagblog.tumblr.com/post/186181118619/gay-man-flag-russian-%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8-%D1%8F-portuguese}}</ref>
	Gay Man Flag.jpg\|Designed in 2018		File:Gay Man Flag.jpg\|alt=Four horizontal bands of light blue, lime green, yellow, and grey.\|Designed in 2018
	Gay man flag by asexykeanu.png\|Designed in 2018		File:Gay man flag by asexykeanu.png\|Designed in 2018
	~~Gay_men_flag_~~-~~_eiradescent~~.jpg\|Designed in 2019		File:Gay men flag - eiradescent.jpg\|Designed in 2019
	Gay men flag - nonbinaryfinnmertens.png\|Designed in 2020		File:Gay men flag - nonbinaryfinnmertens.png\|Designed in 2020
	~~Gay_men_flag_~~-_i-do-art-i-guess.png\|Designed in 2020		File:Gay men flag - i-do-art-i-guess.png\|Designed in 2020
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	In the English-speaking world, most people know about three orientations that are usually attracted to women: bisexuals (who are attracted to two or more genders), [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Heterosexuality\|heterosexual men]], and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Homosexuality\|homosexual women]] ([[Romantic and sexual orientation#Lesbian\|lesbians]]). Some other identity labels have been proposed in order to have a way to say that one is usually attracted to women, without labeling one's own gender identity: [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Gynephilia\|gynephilia]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Femaric\|femaric]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Feminamoric\|feminamoric]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Neptunic\|neptunic]], and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Venusic\|venusic]]. Some identity labels have been proposed specifically for nonbinary people who are usually attracted to women: [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Azalian\|azalian]], nonbinary people loving women ([[Romantic and sexual orientation#NBLW\|NBLW]]), and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Orbisian/Trixic\|orbisian/trixic]].		In the English-speaking world, most people know about three orientations that are usually attracted to women: bisexuals (who are attracted to two or more genders), [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Heterosexuality\|heterosexual men]], and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Homosexuality\|homosexual women]] ([[Romantic and sexual orientation#Lesbian\|lesbians]]). Some other identity labels have been proposed in order to have a way to say that one is usually attracted to women, without labeling one's own gender identity: [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Gynephilia\|gynephilia]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Femaric\|femaric]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Feminamoric\|feminamoric]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Neptunic\|neptunic]], and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Venusic\|venusic]]. Some identity labels have been proposed specifically for nonbinary people who are usually attracted to women: [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Azalian\|azalian]], nonbinary people loving women ([[Romantic and sexual orientation#NBLW\|NBLW]]), and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Orbisian/Trixic\|orbisian/trixic]].


			=== Azalian ===
			"An agender/genderless person who loves women." Coined by tumblr user genderless-gibberish.<ref name="gibberish1">https://genderless-gibberish.tumblr.com/post/175819840125/so-i-think-i-figured-out-what-i-want-to-call-the [https://web.archive.org/web/20230527033129/https://genderless-gibberish.tumblr.com/post/175819840125/so-i-think-i-figured-out-what-i-want-to-call-the Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>.
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			File:Azalian1.png\|An azalian flag created by tumblr user nooonbinaryyyy.<ref name="gibberish2">https://genderless-gibberish.tumblr.com/post/175744061860/so-i-think-i-figured-out-what-i-want-to-call-the</ref>
			File:Azalian2.png\|An azalian flag created by tumblr user madmaxthepaledragon.<ref name="madmaxflags">https://genderless-gibberish.tumblr.com/post/176019647610/</ref>
			File:Azalian3.png\|An azalian flag created by tumblr user madmaxthepaledragon.<ref name="madmaxflags" />
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	=== Blossian ===		=== Blossian ===

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	In the English-speaking world, most people know about three orientations that are usually attracted to women: bisexuals (who are attracted to two or more genders), [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Heterosexuality\|heterosexual men]], and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Homosexuality\|homosexual women]] ([[Romantic and sexual orientation#Lesbian\|lesbians]]). Some other identity labels have been proposed in order to have a way to say that one is usually attracted to women, without labeling one's own gender identity: [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Gynephilia\|gynephilia]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Femaric\|femaric]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Feminamoric\|feminamoric]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Neptunic\|neptunic]], and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Venusic\|venusic]]. Some identity labels have been proposed specifically for nonbinary people who are usually attracted to women: [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Azalian\|azalian]], nonbinary people loving women ([[Romantic and sexual orientation#NBLW\|NBLW]]), and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Orbisian/Trixic\|orbisian/trixic]].		In the English-speaking world, most people know about three orientations that are usually attracted to women: bisexuals (who are attracted to two or more genders), [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Heterosexuality\|heterosexual men]], and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Homosexuality\|homosexual women]] ([[Romantic and sexual orientation#Lesbian\|lesbians]]). Some other identity labels have been proposed in order to have a way to say that one is usually attracted to women, without labeling one's own gender identity: [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Gynephilia\|gynephilia]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Femaric\|femaric]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Feminamoric\|feminamoric]], [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Neptunic\|neptunic]], and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Venusic\|venusic]]. Some identity labels have been proposed specifically for nonbinary people who are usually attracted to women: [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Azalian\|azalian]], nonbinary people loving women ([[Romantic and sexual orientation#NBLW\|NBLW]]), and [[Romantic and sexual orientation#Orbisian/Trixic\|orbisian/trixic]].


	~~=== Azalian ===~~
	"An agender/genderless person who loves women." Coined by tumblr user genderless-gibberish.<ref name="gibberish1">https://genderless-gibberish.tumblr.com/post/175819840125/so-i-think-i-figured-out-what-i-want-to-call-the [https://web.archive.org/web/20230527033129/https://genderless-gibberish.tumblr.com/post/175819840125/so-i-think-i-figured-out-what-i-want-to-call-the Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>.
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	File:Azalian1.png\|An azalian flag created by tumblr user nooonbinaryyyy.<ref name="gibberish2">https://genderless-gibberish.tumblr.com/post/175744061860/so-i-think-i-figured-out-what-i-want-to-call-the</ref>
	~~File:Azalian2.png\|An azalian flag created by tumblr user madmaxthepaledragon.<ref name="madmaxflags">https://genderless-gibberish.tumblr.com/post/176019647610/</ref>~~
	~~File:Azalian3.png\|An azalian flag created by tumblr user madmaxthepaledragon.<ref name="madmaxflags" />~~
	~~</gallery>~~

	=== Blossian ===		=== Blossian ===

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	=== Donna- ===		=== Donna- ===
	[[File:Donna.png\|thumb\|Flag for donna- pride. Variations can be seen [https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/163851088970/donna-pride-flags in this blog post].]]		[[File:Donna.png\|thumb\|Flag for donna- pride. Variations can be seen [https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/163851088970/donna-pride-flags in this blog post].]]
	An [[Gender alignment\|unaligned]] nonbinary person who is only attracted to women. Suffixes are added to specify type of ~~attration~~, e.g. donnasexual, donnaromantic, donnaqueerplatonic, etc. "Donna" means woman in Italian. Coined by a person named Fy in a 2017 submission to Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags.<ref name="beyo_Donn">{{Cite web \|title=Donna- Pride Flags \|author=Fy \|work=Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags \|date=5 August 2017 \|access-date=19 September 2020 \|url= https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/163851088970/donna-pride-flags\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127033113/https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/163851088970/donna-pride-flags \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>		An [[Gender alignment\|unaligned]] nonbinary person who is only attracted to women. Suffixes are added to specify type of attraction, e.g. donnasexual, donnaromantic, donnaqueerplatonic, etc. "Donna" means woman in Italian. Coined by a person named Fy in a 2017 submission to Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags.<ref name="beyo_Donn">{{Cite web \|title=Donna- Pride Flags \|author=Fy \|work=Beyond MOGAI Pride Flags \|date=5 August 2017 \|access-date=19 September 2020 \|url= https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/163851088970/donna-pride-flags\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127033113/https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/163851088970/donna-pride-flags \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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	===Ceterosexuality===		===Ceterosexuality===
	Ceterosexuality, formerly skoliosexuality, means a sexual orientation in which a person feels sexual attraction to nonbinary people, and perhaps other kinds of transgender people as well. <ref>{{cite web\|first=Jack\|last= Molay\|title=Transgender, Genderqueer and Transsexual Glossary\|date=25 January 2010\| url=http://www.crossdreamers.com/2010/01/transgender-and-transsexual-glossary.html}}</ref> Some believe the term is only to be used by nonbinary people<ref name="diamoricpositivity" />, though it was coined in the context of binary people's attraction to nonbinary people.<ref name="Nelde">[https://www.deviantart.com/nelde/art/Sexual-Attraction-v2-180255547 Sexual Attraction v2], Sep 23, 2010 [https://web.archive.org/web/20220120222527/https://www.deviantart.com/nelde/art/Sexual-Attraction-v2-180255547 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Nonbinary people who are attracted to other nonbinary people might also use the terms homosexual, homoromantic, gay, NBLNB, etc.		Ceterosexuality, formerly skoliosexuality, means a sexual orientation in which a person feels sexual attraction to nonbinary people, and perhaps other kinds of transgender people as well. <ref>{{cite web\|first=Jack\|last= Molay\|title=Transgender, Genderqueer and Transsexual Glossary\|date=25 January 2010\| url=http://www.crossdreamers.com/2010/01/transgender-and-transsexual-glossary.html}}</ref> Some believe the term is only to be used by nonbinary people<ref name="diamoricpositivity" />, though it was coined in the context of binary people's attraction to nonbinary people.<ref name="Nelde">[https://www.deviantart.com/nelde/art/Sexual-Attraction-v2-180255547 Sexual Attraction v2], Sep 23, 2010 [https://web.archive.org/web/20220120222527/https://www.deviantart.com/nelde/art/Sexual-Attraction-v2-180255547 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> Nonbinary people who are attracted to other nonbinary people might also use the terms homosexual, homoromantic, gay, NBLNB, etc. Skoliosexual was coined in 2010 by the user Nelde on DeviantArt<ref name="Nelde" />, but due to a somewhat problematic etymology (skolio- comes from the Greek for "crooked"), some prefer to use the term ceterosexual, (from Latin "cetera", meaning "other") or allotroposexual (from Greek "allotropo" meaning "different").<ref name="Stieg">{{Cite web \|title=What Does It Mean To Be Skoliosexual? \|last=Stieg \|first=Cory \|work=refinery29.com \|date=17 November 2017 \|access-date=7 September 2020 \|url= https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/what-is-skoliosexual-definition\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603123425/https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/what-is-skoliosexual-definition \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>https://genderqueerid.com/post/16339992032/skoliosexual-adj [https://web.archive.org/web/20230701052033/https://genderqueerid.com/post/16339992032/skoliosexual-adj Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
	Skoliosexual was coined in 2010 by the user Nelde on DeviantArt<ref name="Nelde" />, but due to a somewhat problematic etymology (skolio- comes from the Greek for "crooked"), some prefer to use the term ceterosexual, (from Latin "cetera", meaning "other") or allotroposexual (from Greek "allotropo" meaning "different").<ref name="Stieg">{{Cite web \|title=What Does It Mean To Be Skoliosexual? \|last=Stieg \|first=Cory \|work=refinery29.com \|date=17 November 2017 \|access-date=7 September 2020 \|url= https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/what-is-skoliosexual-definition\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603123425/https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/what-is-skoliosexual-definition \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>https://genderqueerid.com/post/16339992032/skoliosexual-adj [https://web.archive.org/web/20230701052033/https://genderqueerid.com/post/16339992032/skoliosexual-adj Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

	Several flags have been proposed and used for ceterosexuality. See [[:Category:Cetero pride flags]].		Several flags have been proposed and used for ceterosexuality. See [[:Category:Cetero pride flags]].

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	''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''		''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''

	Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity.<ref> name="Sex and society">{{cite book\|editor=Marshall Cavendish\|title=Sex and Society\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|accessdate=July 27, 2013\|volume=2\|year=2010\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish\|isbn=978-0-7614-7906-2\|pages=82–83\|contribution=Asexuality\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518113809/http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Bogaert 2015">{{cite journal\|last=Bogaert\|first= Anthony F. \|s2cid= 23720993 \|title= Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters \|journal=The Journal of Sex Research\|volume= 52\|date=April 2015 \|pmid=25897566\|doi=10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713\|issue=4\|pages=362–379 Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction. This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>		Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity. Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction. This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

	Notable asexual nonbinary people include:		Notable asexual nonbinary people include:

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	''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''		''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''

	Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity.<ref name="Sex and society">{{cite book\|editor=Marshall Cavendish\|title=Sex and Society\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|accessdate=July 27, 2013\|volume=2\|year=2010\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish\|isbn=978-0-7614-7906-2\|pages=82–83\|contribution=Asexuality\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518113809/http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Bogaert 2015">{{cite journal\|last=Bogaert\|first= Anthony F. \|s2cid= 23720993 \|title= Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters \|journal=The Journal of Sex Research\|volume= 52\|date=April 2015 \|pmid=25897566\|doi=10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713\|issue=4\|pages=362–379 Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction. This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>		Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity.<ref> name="Sex and society">{{cite book\|editor=Marshall Cavendish\|title=Sex and Society\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|accessdate=July 27, 2013\|volume=2\|year=2010\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish\|isbn=978-0-7614-7906-2\|pages=82–83\|contribution=Asexuality\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518113809/http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Bogaert 2015">{{cite journal\|last=Bogaert\|first= Anthony F. \|s2cid= 23720993 \|title= Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters \|journal=The Journal of Sex Research\|volume= 52\|date=April 2015 \|pmid=25897566\|doi=10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713\|issue=4\|pages=362–379 Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction. This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

	Notable asexual nonbinary people include:		Notable asexual nonbinary people include:

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	''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''		''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''

	Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity.<ref name="Sex and society">{{cite book\|editor=Marshall Cavendish\|title=Sex and Society\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|accessdate=July 27, 2013\|volume=2\|year=2010\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish\|isbn=978-0-7614-7906-2\|pages=82–83\|contribution=Asexuality\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518113809/http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Bogaert 2015">{{cite journal\|last=Bogaert\|first= Anthony F. \|s2cid= 23720993 \|title= Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters \|journal=The Journal of Sex Research\|volume= 52\|date=April 2015 \|pmid=25897566\|doi=10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713\|issue=4\|pages=362–379 Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction. This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. }}</ref><ref name="Crooks">{{cite book\|last1=Crooks \|first1=Robert L. \|last2=Baur \|first2=Karla \|title=Our Sexuality\|isbn=978-1305887428\|publisher=Cengage Learning\|year=2016\|page=300\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010185606/https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Helm">{{cite book\|last=Helm \|first=Katherine M.\|title=Hooking Up: The Psychology of Sex and Dating\|isbn=978-1610699518\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|year=2015\|page=32\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016121716/https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Kelly">{{cite book\|last = Kelly\| first = Gary F.\|title = Sexuality Today: The Human Perspective\|edition=7\|year = 2004\| publisher = McGraw-Hill \|isbn= 978-0-07-255835-7\|page = 401\|chapter ~~= Chapter 12 \|postscript =~~ Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>		Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity.<ref name="Sex and society">{{cite book\|editor=Marshall Cavendish\|title=Sex and Society\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|accessdate=July 27, 2013\|volume=2\|year=2010\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish\|isbn=978-0-7614-7906-2\|pages=82–83\|contribution=Asexuality\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518113809/http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Bogaert 2015">{{cite journal\|last=Bogaert\|first= Anthony F. \|s2cid= 23720993 \|title= Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters \|journal=The Journal of Sex Research\|volume= 52\|date=April 2015 \|pmid=25897566\|doi=10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713\|issue=4\|pages=362–379 Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction. This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

	Notable asexual nonbinary people include:		Notable asexual nonbinary people include:

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	''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''		''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''

	Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity.<ref name="Sex and society">{{cite book\|editor=Marshall Cavendish\|title=Sex and Society\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|accessdate=July 27, 2013\|volume=2\|year=2010\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish\|isbn=978-0-7614-7906-2\|pages=82–83\|contribution=Asexuality\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518113809/http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Bogaert 2015">{{cite journal\|last=Bogaert\|first= Anthony F. \|s2cid= 23720993 \|title= Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters \|journal=The Journal of Sex Research\|volume= 52\|date=April 2015 \|pmid=25897566\|doi=10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713\|issue=4\|pages=362–379~~}}</ref>~~ Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction. This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. }}</ref><ref name="Crooks">{{cite book\|last1=Crooks \|first1=Robert L. \|last2=Baur \|first2=Karla \|title=Our Sexuality\|isbn=978-1305887428\|publisher=Cengage Learning\|year=2016\|page=300\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010185606/https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Helm">{{cite book\|last=Helm \|first=Katherine M.\|title=Hooking Up: The Psychology of Sex and Dating\|isbn=978-1610699518\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|year=2015\|page=32\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016121716/https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Kelly">{{cite book\|last = Kelly\| first = Gary F.\|title = Sexuality Today: The Human Perspective\|edition=7\|year = 2004\| publisher = McGraw-Hill \|isbn= 978-0-07-255835-7\|page = 401\|chapter = Chapter 12 \|postscript = Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>		Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity.<ref name="Sex and society">{{cite book\|editor=Marshall Cavendish\|title=Sex and Society\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|accessdate=July 27, 2013\|volume=2\|year=2010\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish\|isbn=978-0-7614-7906-2\|pages=82–83\|contribution=Asexuality\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518113809/http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Bogaert 2015">{{cite journal\|last=Bogaert\|first= Anthony F. \|s2cid= 23720993 \|title= Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters \|journal=The Journal of Sex Research\|volume= 52\|date=April 2015 \|pmid=25897566\|doi=10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713\|issue=4\|pages=362–379 Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction. This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. }}</ref><ref name="Crooks">{{cite book\|last1=Crooks \|first1=Robert L. \|last2=Baur \|first2=Karla \|title=Our Sexuality\|isbn=978-1305887428\|publisher=Cengage Learning\|year=2016\|page=300\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010185606/https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Helm">{{cite book\|last=Helm \|first=Katherine M.\|title=Hooking Up: The Psychology of Sex and Dating\|isbn=978-1610699518\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|year=2015\|page=32\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016121716/https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Kelly">{{cite book\|last = Kelly\| first = Gary F.\|title = Sexuality Today: The Human Perspective\|edition=7\|year = 2004\| publisher = McGraw-Hill \|isbn= 978-0-07-255835-7\|page = 401\|chapter = Chapter 12 \|postscript = Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

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	''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''		''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''

	Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity.<ref name="Sex and society">{{cite book\|editor=Marshall Cavendish\|title=Sex and Society\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|accessdate=July 27, 2013\|volume=2\|year=2010\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish\|isbn=978-0-7614-7906-2\|pages=82–83\|contribution=Asexuality\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518113809/http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Bogaert 2015">{{cite journal\|last=Bogaert\|first= Anthony F. \|s2cid= 23720993 \|title= Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters \|journal=The Journal of Sex Research\|volume= 52\|date=April 2015 \|pmid=25897566\|doi=10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713\|issue=4\|pages=362–379}}</ref> Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction.~~}}</ref>~~ This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. <ref name="Crooks">{{cite book\|last1=Crooks \|first1=Robert L. \|last2=Baur \|first2=Karla \|title=Our Sexuality\|isbn=978-1305887428\|publisher=Cengage Learning\|year=2016\|page=300\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010185606/https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Helm">{{cite book\|last=Helm \|first=Katherine M.\|title=Hooking Up: The Psychology of Sex and Dating\|isbn=978-1610699518\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|year=2015\|page=32\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016121716/https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Kelly">{{cite book\|last = Kelly\| first = Gary F.\|title = Sexuality Today: The Human Perspective\|edition=7\|year = 2004\| publisher = McGraw-Hill \|isbn= 978-0-07-255835-7\|page = 401\|chapter = Chapter 12 \|postscript = Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>		Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity.<ref name="Sex and society">{{cite book\|editor=Marshall Cavendish\|title=Sex and Society\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|accessdate=July 27, 2013\|volume=2\|year=2010\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish\|isbn=978-0-7614-7906-2\|pages=82–83\|contribution=Asexuality\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518113809/http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Bogaert 2015">{{cite journal\|last=Bogaert\|first= Anthony F. \|s2cid= 23720993 \|title= Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters \|journal=The Journal of Sex Research\|volume= 52\|date=April 2015 \|pmid=25897566\|doi=10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713\|issue=4\|pages=362–379}}</ref> Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction. This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. }}</ref><ref name="Crooks">{{cite book\|last1=Crooks \|first1=Robert L. \|last2=Baur \|first2=Karla \|title=Our Sexuality\|isbn=978-1305887428\|publisher=Cengage Learning\|year=2016\|page=300\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010185606/https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Helm">{{cite book\|last=Helm \|first=Katherine M.\|title=Hooking Up: The Psychology of Sex and Dating\|isbn=978-1610699518\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|year=2015\|page=32\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016121716/https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Kelly">{{cite book\|last = Kelly\| first = Gary F.\|title = Sexuality Today: The Human Perspective\|edition=7\|year = 2004\| publisher = McGraw-Hill \|isbn= 978-0-07-255835-7\|page = 401\|chapter = Chapter 12 \|postscript = Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

	Notable asexual nonbinary people include:		Notable asexual nonbinary people include:

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	''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''		''Disambiguation: for asexuality in the sense of a person born without sexual organs, that is an intersex condition, so instead see [[intersex]]. People who don't experience sexual attraction are most often not intersex.''

	Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity.<ref name="Sex and society">{{cite book\|editor=Marshall Cavendish\|title=Sex and Society\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|accessdate=July 27, 2013\|volume=2\|year=2010\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish\|isbn=978-0-7614-7906-2\|pages=82–83\|contribution=Asexuality\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518113809/http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Bogaert 2015">{{cite journal\|last=Bogaert\|first= Anthony F. \|s2cid= 23720993 \|title= Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters \|journal=The Journal of Sex Research\|volume= 52\|date=April 2015 \|pmid=25897566\|doi=10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713\|issue=4\|pages=362–379}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. <ref name="Crooks">{{cite book\|last1=Crooks \|first1=Robert L. \|last2=Baur \|first2=Karla \|title=Our Sexuality\|isbn=978-1305887428\|publisher=Cengage Learning\|year=2016\|page=300\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010185606/https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Helm">{{cite book\|last=Helm \|first=Katherine M.\|title=Hooking Up: The Psychology of Sex and Dating\|isbn=978-1610699518\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|year=2015\|page=32\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016121716/https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Kelly">{{cite book\|last = Kelly\| first = Gary F.\|title = Sexuality Today: The Human Perspective\|edition=7\|year = 2004\| publisher = McGraw-Hill \|isbn= 978-0-07-255835-7\|page = 401\|chapter = Chapter 12 \|postscript = Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction.}}</ref> This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>		Asexuality is a sexual orientation in which a person usually does not feel sexual attraction to any gender identity.<ref name="Sex and society">{{cite book\|editor=Marshall Cavendish\|title=Sex and Society\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|accessdate=July 27, 2013\|volume=2\|year=2010\|publisher=Marshall Cavendish\|isbn=978-0-7614-7906-2\|pages=82–83\|contribution=Asexuality\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518113809/http://books.google.com/books?id=aVDZchwkIMEC&pg=PA82\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Bogaert 2015">{{cite journal\|last=Bogaert\|first= Anthony F. \|s2cid= 23720993 \|title= Asexuality: What It Is and Why It Matters \|journal=The Journal of Sex Research\|volume= 52\|date=April 2015 \|pmid=25897566\|doi=10.1080/00224499.2015.1015713\|issue=4\|pages=362–379}}</ref> Asexuality is a condition characterized by a lack of sexual attraction.}}</ref> This is an enduring characteristic.<ref name="apahelp">{{cite web\|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality\|publisher=American Psychological Association\|accessdate=March 30, 2013\|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307042644/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as celibacy, in which a person may feel sexual attraction, but intentionally chooses not to have sex.<ref name="Halter">{{cite book\|author=Margaret Jordan Halter \|author2=Elizabeth M. Varcarolis\|title=Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing\|isbn=978-1-4557-5358-1\|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences\|year=2013\|page=382\|accessdate=May 7, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382#v=onepage\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115092147/https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA382\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="DePaulo">{{cite journal\|first=Bella\|last=DePaulo\|title=ASEXUALS: Who Are They and Why Are They Important?\|journal=Psychology Today\|date=September 26, 2011\|accessdate=December 13, 2011\|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/living-single/200912/asexuals-who-are-they-and-why-are-they-important}}</ref> Asexuality can be mistaken for aromanticism, however they are different (aromanticism is the lack of ''romantic'' attraction rather than sexual). More often than not, people use asexuality to mean something distinct from aromanticism, to say that they may feel romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction.<ref name="Richards and Barker">{{cite book\|author=Christina Richards \|author2=Meg Barker\|title=Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide\|isbn=978-1-4462-9313-3\|publisher=Sage Publications\|year=2013\|pages=124–127\|accessdate=July 3, 2014\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230706223115/https://books.google.com/books?id=uSiXAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT124\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Asexuality is not the same as a lack of libido. They may have little or no interest in sexual activity, yet sexual activity is viewed independently from sexual attraction. Asexual identifying individuals may also identify, for example, as sex repulsed or sex positive or sex neutral. <ref name="Crooks">{{cite book\|last1=Crooks \|first1=Robert L. \|last2=Baur \|first2=Karla \|title=Our Sexuality\|isbn=978-1305887428\|publisher=Cengage Learning\|year=2016\|page=300\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010185606/https://books.google.com/books?id=isIaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT300\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Helm">{{cite book\|last=Helm \|first=Katherine M.\|title=Hooking Up: The Psychology of Sex and Dating\|isbn=978-1610699518\|publisher=ABC-CLIO\|year=2015\|page=32\|accessdate=January 4, 2017\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016121716/https://books.google.com/books?id=O3K9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA32\|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Kelly">{{cite book\|last = Kelly\| first = Gary F.\|title = Sexuality Today: The Human Perspective\|edition=7\|year = 2004\| publisher = McGraw-Hill \|isbn= 978-0-07-255835-7\|page = 401\|chapter = Chapter 12 \|postscript = Some asexual people enjoy taking part in sexual relationships, even though some do not feel an instinctive need to do so.<ref name="Prause">{{cite journal\|last=Prause \|first=Nicole \|author2=Cynthia A. Graham \|s2cid=12034925 \|date=August 2004 \|url=http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|title=Asexuality: Classification and Characterization \|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior \|volume=36 \|pages=341–356 \|accessdate=August 31, 2007 \|doi=10.1007/s10508-006-9142-3 \|pmid=17345167 \|issue=3 \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927014407/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archivedate=September 27, 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307111406/http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/PrauseGrahamPDF.pdf \|archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Many asexuals see asexuality as a queer identity, and under the umbrella of [[MOGII\|marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex (MOGII)]], because they experience discrimination for their orientation, like lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. Asexuality can also be defined as an umbrella term, which can include other kinds of sexuality labels in the asexual spectrum, such as and gray-asexuality, demisexuality, and more.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Scherrer\|first=Kristin\|title=Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire\|journal=Sexualities\|volume=11\|issue=5\|pages=621–641\|doi=10.1177/1363460708094269\|pmid=20593009\|pmc=2893352\|year=2008}}</ref><ref>Jillian Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels." [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305111555/http://jilliancottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels] [https://web.archive.org/web/20220205075913/http://jilliancottle.com//hallelujah-its-raining-labels Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

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	People who identify as gay men have a male gender identity, and are attracted only to men. This word is applicable regardless of whether one or both people involved are cisgender men or transgender men. Some nonbinary people also identify as men to some degree ([[nonbinary man\|nonbinary men]]), and also usually experience attraction to men, and so they consider themselves gay.		People who identify as gay men have a male gender identity, and are attracted only to men. This word is applicable regardless of whether one or both people involved are cisgender men or transgender men. Some nonbinary people also identify as men to some degree ([[nonbinary man\|nonbinary men]]), and also usually experience attraction to men, and so they consider themselves gay.

	Overall, most gay men have used the rainbow pride flag to represent themselves, but since it can also represent the whole LGBTQ community, several proposals for a gay-man-specific pride flag have been made, many with explicit inclusion of nonbinary gay men. It is impractical to include all ~~the~~ proposed flags here, so the gallery below is only a selection of those which gained some popularity and have been stated to include nonbinary men. See also [[:Category:Gay man pride flags]].		Overall, most gay men have used the rainbow pride flag to represent themselves, but since it can also represent the whole LGBTQ community, several proposals for a gay-man-specific pride flag have been made, many with explicit inclusion of nonbinary gay men. It is impractical to include all proposed flags here, so the gallery below is only a selection of those which gained some popularity and have been stated to include nonbinary men. See also [[:Category:Gay man pride flags]].

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	Gay.png\|The rainbow pride flag, which can represent either the entire LGBTQ community, or specifically gay men.		File:Gay.png\|The rainbow pride flag, which can represent either the entire LGBTQ community, or specifically gay men.
	~~Gay_men_flag_~~-~~_Triton_7_stripe~~.png\|Designed in 2019, this flag has become the ~~commonest one~~ specifically for gay men. The seven stripes represent 1. Community, 2. Healing, 3. Joy, 4. [[GNC]], [[nonbinary]], and [[trans]] men, 5. Pure love, 6. Fortitude, and 7. Diversity.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Gay Man Flag \|author= \|work=gayflagblog.tumblr.com \|date=11 April 2022 \|access-date=15 May 2022 \|url= https://gayflagblog.tumblr.com/post/186181118619/gay-man-flag-russian-%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8-%D1%8F-portuguese}}</ref>		File:Gay men flag - Triton 7 stripe.png\|Designed in 2019, this flag has become the most common specifically for gay men. The seven stripes represent 1. Community, 2. Healing, 3. Joy, 4. [[GNC]], [[nonbinary]], and [[trans]] men, 5. Pure love, 6. Fortitude, and 7. Diversity.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Gay Man Flag \|author= \|work=gayflagblog.tumblr.com \|date=11 April 2022 \|access-date=15 May 2022 \|url= https://gayflagblog.tumblr.com/post/186181118619/gay-man-flag-russian-%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8-%D1%8F-portuguese}}</ref>
	Gay Man Flag.jpg\|Designed in 2018		File:Gay Man Flag.jpg\|alt=Four horizontal bands of light blue, lime green, yellow, and grey.\|Designed in 2018
	Gay man flag by asexykeanu.png\|Designed in 2018		File:Gay man flag by asexykeanu.png\|Designed in 2018
	~~Gay_men_flag_~~-~~_eiradescent~~.jpg\|Designed in 2019		File:Gay men flag - eiradescent.jpg\|Designed in 2019
	Gay men flag - nonbinaryfinnmertens.png\|Designed in 2020		File:Gay men flag - nonbinaryfinnmertens.png\|Designed in 2020
	~~Gay_men_flag_~~-_i-do-art-i-guess.png\|Designed in 2020		File:Gay men flag - i-do-art-i-guess.png\|Designed in 2020
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