Trevor Project Seeks More Asexual Resources
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- Published on Wednesday, 08 February 2012 14:21
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Phoenix Schneider, a representative for the Trevor Project, met with Sara Beth Brooks and David Jay at Creating Change 2012. The Trevor Project provides suicide prevention materials for LGBT youth. The topic of Asexuality and mental health has been covered only briefly, but a recent study indicates that the incidence of mental health problems is not higher in the Asexual community and is not at an elevated risk of suicide.
Orgasm, Inc Filmmaker Echoes Asexual, Transgender Complaint Against DSM 5, Big Pharma
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- Published on Sunday, 05 February 2012 19:49
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Asexuals have worried about the appearance of HSDD in the DSM, and it's split into SIAD and HSDD in the DSM 5. Members of AVEN formed a committee to express their concern over the inclusion of HSDD in the guide book used by psychiatrists, psychologists and many therapists. Liz Canner, the maker of Orgasm, Inc. offered her own take on the attempt to medicalize the ability of a woman to orgasm. The interview appeared in the Huffington Post.
“During the feminist movement of the 1960's and 70's, the pathologizing and medicalizing of woman's sexual experience was challenged and resisted. Terms such as nymphomania, hysteria and frigidity were no longer used. Recently, the clocks have been turned back. The condition of low desire is now called hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) and there are quite a number of drug companies racing to find a nose spray, pill, cream or patch to cure it. The risk is that many healthy women will falsely think that they are diseased when in fact they are perfectly healthy and normal,” Liz Canner told Huffington Post reporter Tamara McClintock.
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Asexual Activists Often Need to Reinvent the Wheel -- Asexuality at the Creating Change Conference
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- Published on Friday, 03 February 2012 22:37
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Sara Beth Brooks and David Jay attended that National Gay and Lesbian Task force in Baltimore during the last weekend of January. The founder of AVEN and the founder of the Asexual Awareness Week committee. 2012 marks the first year Asexual groups have had a presence at the NLGTF conference. Brooks went to the conference before. She tried to arrange an impromptu question and answer session on the lobby several years ago. Two people showed up to the session. The two people who responded to her lobby session identified as part of the LGBT community and Asexual.
Brooks and Jay went to the conference with 500 pamphlets. Every pamphlet found a new home with members of different groups. Many of the LGBT activists did not know Asexual grous had people serving as contacts. The pair met with representatives of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood discussed a long-term project to integrate pamphlets on Asexuality into safe-sex education materials.
Why GLAAD Did Not Respond To House's "Better Half" Episode
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- Published on Saturday, 04 February 2012 12:40
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GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, did not respond to episode of House, M.D., that featured an Asexual couple. Members of the Asexual community wondered why GLAAD did not issue a response to the Fox network and the producers of House after the January 23 episode aired. David Jay, founder of AVEN, and Sara Beth Brooks, founder of the Asexual Awareness Week committee, attempted to contact GLAAD representatives at Creating Change 2012.
The Gay And Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation currently suffers from an organizational vacuum. Neither Jay nor Brooks knew who the current media contact was. The organization's presidency is currently vacant. Brooks said that GLAAD in the state of disarray.
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Diva Magazine Looking for Female Homoromantic and Biromantic Asexuals
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- Published on Thursday, 02 February 2012 16:17
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Diva magazine wants to speak to female Asexuals that identify as either Homoromantic or Biromantic. Contact the magazine if you are interested and fit the above criteria at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
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