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Pada tanggal 29 Juni 2014, AVEN mengorganisir Konferensi Aseksualitas Internasional, sebagai satu afiliasi peristiwa Kebanggaan Dunia di Toronto. Yang pertama diadakan pada tahun 2012 di London.<ref name="Tarrant2015">{{cite book|author=Shira Tarrant|title=Gender, Sex, and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t6nwCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT278|date=June 19, 2015|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-81475-7|pages=278–|access-date=September 4, 2017|archive-date=February 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213211944/https://books.google.com/books?id=t6nwCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT278|url-status=live}}</ref> Peristiwa kedua ini, yang dihadiri sekitar 250 orang, merupakan kumpulan aseksual terbesar hingga saat ini.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/06/23/world_pride_toronto_asexuals_march_in_biggest_numbers_yet.html|title=World Pride Toronto: Asexuals march in biggest numbers yet|work=Toronto Star|date=June 23, 2014|access-date=6 October 2014|archive-date=November 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118012441/https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/06/23/world_pride_toronto_asexuals_march_in_biggest_numbers_yet.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Konferensi ini meliputi presentasi, diskusi, dan lokakarya mengenai topik-topik seperti penelitian mengenai aseksualitas, hubungan aseksual, dan identitas yang saling bersimpangan.
=== SymbolsSimbol ===
[[File:Asexual Pride Flag.svg|thumb|The asexual [[pride flag|Bendera kebanggan]] aseksual]]
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{{Main|LGBT symbols}}InDi tahun 2009, anggota AVEN membersberpartisipasi participatedpertama inkali thebergabung firstdalam asexualpawai entrykebanggaan intoAmerika anketika Americanberjalan pride parade when they walked in thebersama [[San Francisco Pride Parade|Pawai Kebanggaan San Francisco]].<ref name="Rufus">{{cite magazine|first=Rufus|last=Anneli|title=Stuck. Asexuals at the Pride Parade.|magazine=[[Psychology Today]]|date=June 22, 2009|access-date=July 15, 2013|url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stuck/200906/asexuals-the-pride-parade|archive-date=March 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309223639/https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stuck/200906/asexuals-the-pride-parade|url-status=live}}</ref> InPada Augustbulan Agustus 2010, aftersetelah asatu periodperiode ofperdebatan debatemengenai over having ankepemilikan '''asexualbendera flagaseksual''' anddan howbagaimana tountuk setmemasang upsistem amenciptakan system to create onebendera, andserta contactingmenghubungi assebanyak manymungkin asexualkomunitas communities as possibleaseksual, asebuah flagbendera wasdiumumkan announced as thesebagai '''asexualbendera pridekebanggaan flagaseksual''' byoleh onesalah ofseorang thetim teamsyang involvedterlibat. TheBendera finalterakhir flagmerupakan hadkandidat beenterpopuler adan popularsebelumnya candidateterlihat anddipergunakan haddalam previouslyforum seendaring usedi in online forums outside of AVENluar. ThePengambilan finalsuara voteterakhir wasdiadakan helddengan onsatu asistem surveysurvei systemdi outside ofluar AVEN whereyang themenjadi mainwadah flagupaya-upaya creationmengorganisir effortspembuatan were organizedbendera. TheWarna-warna flagbenderanya colorstelah havedigunakan beendalam usedkarya inseni artworkdan anddiacu referenceddalam inartikel-artikel articlesmengenai about asexualityaseksualitas.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://recultured.com/uncategorized/09/asexuality-redefining-love-and-sexuality/ |title=Asexuality – Redefining Love and Sexuality |publisher=recultured |date=9 January 2012 |access-date=7 August 2012 |archive-date=June 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617124513/http://recultured.com/uncategorized/09/asexuality-redefining-love-and-sexuality/ |url-status=live }}</ref> TheBendera flagitu consiststerdiri ofdari fourempat horizontalbaris stripeswarna horizontal: blackhitam, greyabu-abu, whiteputih, anddan purpleungu fromdari topatas toke bottombawah. TheHitam blackmelambangkan stripe represents asexualityaseksualitas, theabu-abu greymelambangkan stripearea representingabu-abu thedi grey-areaantara betweenseksual sexual anddan asexualaseksual, theputih whitemelambangkan stripe sexualityseksualitas, and thedan purpleungu stripemelambangkan communitykomunitas.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bilić |first1=Bojan |last2=Kajinić |first2=Sanja |title=Intersectionality and LGBT Activist Politics: Multiple Others in Croatia and Serbia | publisher=Springer | date=2016 |pages=95–96}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Decker |first1=Julie |title=The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality | publisher=Skyhorse}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Asexual |url=http://www.lgbt.ucla.edu/Campus-Resources/Asexual |publisher=UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource center |access-date=June 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904115908/http://www.lgbt.ucla.edu/Campus-Resources/Asexual |archive-date=September 4, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
=== AceMinggu WeekAs ===
AceMinggu WeekAs (formerlysemula AsexualMinggu AwarenessKesadaran WeekAseksual) occursmuncul ondi thesatu lastminggu fullpenuh weekterakhir inbulan OctoberOktober. ItMinggu isini anmerupakan [[List of LGBT awareness periods|awarenessperiode periodkesadaran]] thatyang wasdiciptakan createduntuk tomerayakan celebratedan andmembawa bringkesadaran awarenesspada to asexualityaseksualitas (includingtermasuk greyaseksualitas asexualityabu-abu).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/meet-india-s-newest-sexual-minority-the-asexuals/story-pNyerWTWrBnJHFqpkPwrIP.html|title=Meet India's newest sexual minority: The asexuals|last=Kumar|first=Shikha|date=2017-03-18|work=[[Hindustan Times]]|access-date=2017-09-08|archive-date=June 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629050058/https://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch/meet-india-s-newest-sexual-minority-the-asexuals/story-pNyerWTWrBnJHFqpkPwrIP.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="aaw">{{cite web|url=http://asexualawarenessweek.com/about.html|title=AAW – About Us|website=asexualawarenessweek.com|access-date=2016-01-03|archive-date=January 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160107024024/http://www.asexualawarenessweek.com/about.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ItMinggu wasini foundeddiselenggarakan bypertama kali oleh Sara Beth Brooks indi tahun 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/robyn-exton/aces-show-their-hand-what_b_12915544.html|title=Aces Show Their Hand – What Is Asexuality And Why You Should Know About It|last=Exton|first=Robyn|date=2016-11-14|website=HuffPost|access-date=2017-09-08|archive-date=June 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629022453/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/robyn-exton/aces-show-their-hand-what_b_12915544.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asexualawarenessweek.com/prerelease/About.html|title=About [prerelease]|website=asexualawarenessweek.com|access-date=2017-09-04|archive-date=September 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904104951/http://www.asexualawarenessweek.com/prerelease/About.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== InternationalHari AsexualityAseksualitas DayInternasional ===
InternationalHari AsexualityAseksualitas DayInternasional (IAD) ismerupakan anperayaan annualtahunan celebration of the asexualitykomunitas communityaseksual thatyang takesdilakukan placepada ontanggal 6 April.<ref name = "IAD official website">{{cite web |title=International Asexuality Day |url=https://internationalasexualityday.org/en/ |website=International Asexuality Day (IAD) |language=en |access-date=April 8, 2021 |archive-date=April 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210407060241/https://internationalasexualityday.org/en/ |url-status=live }}</ref> TheMaksud intentionhari forini the day isadalah "tomenempatkan placepenegasan akhusus specialpada emphasiskomunitas on the international communityinternasional, goingmelampaui beyond theorang-orang anglophoneberbahasa andInggris Westerndan spherebelahan thatBarat hasyang sosejauh farini hadmendapatkan thejangkauan mostpaling coverageluas".<ref name = "IAD faq">{{cite web |title=FAQ |url=https://internationalasexualityday.org/en/faq/ |website=International Asexuality Day (IAD) |language=en |access-date=April 8, 2021 |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307034815/https://internationalasexualityday.org/en/faq/ |url-status=live }}</ref> AnSebuah internationalkomite committeeinternasional spentmenghabiskan awaktu littledi underbawah asatu yeartahun preparingmempersiapkan theacara eventini, asdan welljuga asmempublikasi publishingsitus aweb websiteserta and pressbahan-bahan materialspers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Redefining Perceptions Of Asexuality With Yasmin Benoit |url=https://noctismag.com/art-culture/redefining-perceptions-of-asexuality-with-yasmin-benoit/ |website=noctismag.com |language=en |access-date=April 8, 2021 |archive-date=April 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210406181514/https://noctismag.com/art-culture/redefining-perceptions-of-asexuality-with-yasmin-benoit/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ThisKomite committeeini settledmenetapkan on the date oftanggal 6 April tountuk avoidmenghindari clashingberbenturan withdengan assebanyak manymungkin significanttanggal datespenting arounddi theseluruh world as possibledunia, althoughmeskipun thistanggal dateini ismungkin subjectdapat todiulas reviewkembali anddan maymungkin changeberubah indi futuretahun-tahun yearsmendatang.<ref name = "IAD faq"/><ref name = "Newsweek" >{{cite web|last=Flood|first=Rebecca|title=Asexual Meaning as First International Asexuality Day Celebrated Around the World|url=https://www.newsweek.com/international-asexuality-day-first-celebrated-world-1581256|date=April 6, 2021|website=[[Newsweek]]|access-date=April 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210406142109/https://www.newsweek.com/international-asexuality-day-first-celebrated-world-1581256|archive-date=April 6, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>
TheHari firstAseksual InternationalInternasional Asexualitypertama Daydirayakan was celebrated intahun 2021 anddan involved asexualitymelibatkan organisationsorganisasi fromaseksual atdari leastsetidaknya 26 countriesnegara.<ref name = "IAD official website" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Waters|first=Jamie|title='I don't want sex with anyone': the growing asexuality movement|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/21/i-dont-want-sex-with-anyone-the-growing-asexuality-movement|date=March 21, 2021|website=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=April 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401020931/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/21/i-dont-want-sex-with-anyone-the-growing-asexuality-movement|archive-date=April 1, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=O'Dell|first=Liam|title=What is International Asexuality Day?|url=https://www.indy100.com/news/international-asexuality-day-lgbtq-aven-b1827276|date=April 6, 2021|website=[[The Independent]]|access-date=April 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210406115115/https://www.indy100.com/news/international-asexuality-day-lgbtq-aven-b1827276|archive-date=April 6, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> ActivitiesAktivitasnya includedtermasuk virtualpertemuan meetupsvirtual, advocacyprogram programsadvokasi bothbaik onlinedaring andmaupun offlineluring, anddan theberbagi sharingkisah ofdengan storiesberbagai inbentuk variouskarya art-formsseni.<ref>{{Cite web|title=In Nepal's growing queer movement, here's how asexuals are trying to amplify their voice|url=https://kathmandupost.com/art-culture/2021/04/07/in-nepal-s-growing-queer-movement-here-s-how-asexuals-are-trying-to-amplify-their-voice|access-date=2021-04-07|website=kathmandupost.com|language=English|archive-date=April 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409151345/https://kathmandupost.com/art-culture/2021/04/07/in-nepal-s-growing-queer-movement-here-s-how-asexuals-are-trying-to-amplify-their-voice|url-status=live}}</ref>
== ReligionAgama ==
StudiesKajian-kajian havemenemukan foundtidak noada significanthubungan statisticalstatistik correlationyang betweensignifikan religionantara andagama dan asexualityaseksualitas,<ref name="Aicken">{{cite book|last1=Aicken|first1=Catherine R. H.|last2=Mercer|first2=Catherine H.|last3=Cassell|first3=Jackie A.|editor1-last=Carrigan|editor1-first=Mark|editor2-last=Gupta|editor2-first=Kristina|editor3-last=Morrison|editor3-first=Todd G.|article=Who reports absence of sexual attraction in Britain? Evidence from national probability surveys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sEGDCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT22|title=Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: An Anthology|location=New York City, New York and London, England|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-73132-4|pages=22–27|date=2015-09-07|access-date=January 10, 2018|archive-date=July 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726094223/https://books.google.com/books?id=sEGDCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT22|url-status=live}}</ref> withkarena asexualityaseksualitas occurringmuncul withsebagai equalkelaziman prevalencedalam inindividu bothberkeyakinan religiousberagama anddan irreligioustidak individualsberagama.<ref name="Aicken"/> NonethelessNamun demikian, asexualityaseksualitas isbukan nottidak uncommonbiasa amongdi celibateantara clergy,klerus sinceyang othersselibat, aresementara moreyang likelylainnya tokemungkinan bebesar discouragedtidak byterdorong vowsoleh ofsumpah chastitykesucian.<ref name="Bogaert"/> InDalam kajian Aicken, Mercer, anddan Cassell's study, aproporsi higher proportion ofresponden Muslim respondentslebih thantinggi Christiandaripada onesKristen reporteddilaporkan thatbahwa theymereka didtidak notmengalami experienceberbagai anybentuk formketertarikan ofseksual sexual attractionapapun.<ref name="Aicken"/>
BecauseKarena ofpenerapan theyang relativelyrelatif recent application ofterkini themengenai termistilah ''asexualityaseksualitas'', mostsebagian religionsbesar doagama nottidak havememiliki clearpendirian stancesjelas onmengenai itaseksualitas.<ref name="AsexualityandChristianity">{{cite web|title=Asexuality and Christianity|url=http://asexualawarenessweek.com/docs/PRIDE-Asexuality-and-Christianity.pdf|work=Asexual Awareness Week|access-date=January 10, 2018|archive-date=October 29, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029184212/http://asexualawarenessweek.com/docs/PRIDE-Asexuality-and-Christianity.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2021}} InDalam {{Bibleverse||Matthew|19:11-12|9}}, [[Jesus|Yesus]] mentionsmenyebutkan "ForKarena there areada [[eunuch|orang kasim]]s whoyang wereterlahir bornseperti that wayitu, anddan thereada areorang eunuchskasim whoyang havedibuat beenmenjadi madekasim eunuchsoleh byorang otherslain – anddan thereada areorang-orang thoseyang whomemilih chooseuntuk tohidup liveseperti likeorang eunuchskasim to the sake of thedemi [[Kingdom of Heaven (Gospel of Matthew)|kingdom ofkerajaan heavensurga]]."<ref name="Kaoma">{{cite book|last=Kaoma|first=Kapya|date=2018|title=Christianity, Globalization, and Protective Homophobia: Democratic Contestation of Sexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xSU_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA160|location=Boston, Massachusetts|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-3-319-66341-8|pages=159–160|access-date=January 10, 2018|archive-date=September 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923043738/https://books.google.com/books?id=xSU_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA160|url-status=live}}</ref> SomeSebagian [[biblical hermeneutics|biblicalpenafsir exegetesalkitab]] havetelah interpreted themenginterpretasi "eunuchsorang whokasim wereyang borndilahirkan thatseperti wayitu" as includingmeliputi asexualsaseksual.<ref name="Kaoma"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Cole|first1=William Graham|title=Sex in Christianity and Psychoanalysis|date=2015|orig-year=1955|series=Routledge Library Editions: Psychoanalysis|publisher=Routledge|location=New York City, New York and London, England|isbn=978-1138951792|page=177|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaLhCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA177|access-date=January 10, 2018|archive-date=September 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923043751/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaLhCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA177|url-status=live}}</ref>
ChristianityKaum hasnasrani traditionallysecara reveredtradisional celibacymengacu selibat (whichyang istidak notsama the same asdengan asexualityaseksualitas); the apostlerasul [[Paul the Apostle|Paul]], writingyang asmenulis asebagai celibate,orang hasyang selibat, beentelah describeddigambarkan byoleh somebeberapa writerspenulis assebagai asexualaseksual.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zuckerman|first1=Phil|title=An Invitation to Sociology of Religion|date=2003|publisher=Routledge|location=New York City, New York and London, England|isbn=978-0-415-94125-9|page=111|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ml6TAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA111|access-date=January 11, 2018|archive-date=September 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923043738/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ml6TAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA111|url-status=live}}</ref> HeDia writesmenulis indalam {{Bibleverse||1 Corinthians|7:6-9|9}},
{{blockquote|Saya berharap semua manusia seperti saya. Tapi setiap manusia memiliki berkat mereka sendiri; yang seorang memiliki berkat ini, yang lainnya memiliki berkat itu. Sekarang pada yang tak menikah dan sudah bercerai saya mengatakan: Baik bagi mereka tetap tidak menikah, seperti saya. Tapi jika mereka tidak dapat mengendalikan diri, mereka harus menikah, karena lebih baik menikah daripada terbakar gairah.}}
{{blockquote|I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.}}
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