Equinox Fitness Forgets The A For Asexuality

Fans are not very happy with the recent release of a short film entitled “LGBTQAlphabet: Six Letters Will Never Be Enough.”Equinox Fitness released the video in celebration of LGBT Pride Month. In the video, the dancers represent every letter in the alphabet with a different sexual identity. And while the visuals are beautiful and the effort the LGBT Community Center of NYC — which also helped create the video — put in is visible, there is no mention of asexuality as a sexual identity.

There are 26 letters in the alphabet, and yet asexuality is not represented in the video at all. Equinox’s Executive Creative Director Liz Nolan released an official statement to BuzzFeed regarding this apparent lack of acknowledgement.

“With the “LGBTQAlphabet,” our goal was to spark a conversation and shed light on the many diverse, evolving identities of the community,” Nolan said. “This is not a closed narrative. Rather, it’s intended to inspire conversation and new ways of thinking. At Equinox, we want to empower everyone in the community to be proud and unapologetic about who they are and how they identify and that goes well beyond six or even 26 letters.”

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