This weekend I spent a few (dozen) hours working on the November issue of Buzzsaw magazine, Ithaca College's premier alternative publication. This month, for the Body & Soul Issue, we've been exploring the ways in which American society views, treats, and labels the human body, how Americans conceptualize the idea of "soul," and how these constructions of body and soul interact.

One of the articles I helped to edit was about pansexuality, often referred to as omnisexuality, or the sexuality that basically disregards gender and biological sex. A pansexual person - male, female, trans, intersex, or otherwise - may be sexually attracted to any other person - male, female, trans, intersex, or otherwise.

The topic fit into this issue because of the largely understood summary of pansexuality: that people are attracted to souls rather than to specific genders or sexes.

As we helped to flesh out the article by fact-checking, editing, and developing a graphic sidebar, we realized just how little discussion existed about pansexuality. As tolerance continues to evolve into acceptance for gays and lesbians, as understanding continues to develop for bisexuals, and as visibility continues to grow for trans people, pansexuals have remained at a stand-still.

There's no organization that focuses specifically on pansexual people, and very few of the national LGBT organizations specifically list pansexuals as a group of people the organization represents. Only a handful of blogs provide consistent coverage of pansexuals.

What's more, their cultural visibility is often misunderstood and misrepresented -- if it's even represented at all, of course.

