Today’s Action: Borderlands creator Mikey Neumann comes out as asexual
As of yesterday, October 23, Mikey Neumann came out as asexual. He used the blog “TheMarySue” as a platform to talk about himself, his sexual identity, his journey to his coming out and answered 6 questions he’s been asked the most about asexuality.
“My name is Mikey Neumann and I’m the Chief Creative Champion at Gearbox Software, the makers of Borderlands (among other cool stuff). I wrote the firstBorderlands and its DLC, came up with a lot of the cinematic style (like title cards!) that permeates the game.”
“Identity is a bit of a strange thing, isn’t it? No one truly, fully understands the ins and outs of everyone’s sexual or gender identity, though, I think a lot of us would like to. I use the word “strange,” not cavalierly, but purposely and proudly because in just four modest words, to the world that you inhabit, one or both of either identity could change: I am an asexual.“
“Asexuality is, by its nature, an introverted identity. And for someone so “in the spotlight” to say that, you should now know how much of my life I’ve lived in total secrecy, putting on a public-facing façade, for what feels like most of my adult life. Never in any form of media, have I ever truly been myself. And that has really started to eat away at me. This has been a long time coming, and I’m as excited to finally have it out there, as I am terrified of what the reaction will be.”
This week, October 19 to 25, we celebrate Asexuality Awareness week and we feel Mikey couldn’t have chosen a better time to come out and give a lot of hope and strength to other people identifying with the Ace/Aro spectrum.
For Today’s Action, we would like to ask you to congratulate Mikey here or retweeting our message to him here
Congratulations to @mikeyface for coming out as asexual and giving a lot of Ace/Aro people hope, strength and much needed visibility! #LGBT
— Rainbow Direction (@homefromnarnia)
