After 11 years in the post,Ben Summerskill has stepped down from Stonewall, the UK LGB lobbying and rights group. I say LGB rather than LGBT as over the years it has been infamous in promoting the understanding of gay or LGB rights, as opposed to the whole gamut of LGBT+, not that ma...
Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users (2010): “People who identify as genderqueer or intergender may consider themselves as being both male and female, as being neither male nor female, or as falling completely outside the gender binary. Some genderqueer people see their identity as one ...
meaning each phase of the obeisance represented an intentional practice of identifying and recognizing a reason, or cause of my survival as the object of my gratitude, then defining my accountability to the object of my gratitude in terms of my specific future responsibilities to the object of m...
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I typed in “a gay man trapped in a woman’s body” on Google one night and ended up at the Wiki article on girlfags and guydykes (which has since been deleted). The meaning of “girlfag” is “a biologically female individual who feels a strong romantic or erotic attraction towards ...
Some gay men and lesbians, however, remembering the hurt caused by its pejorative meaning, dislike the term, even in its “reclaimed” usage, and feel that it has the effect of diluting the specificity of the narrower categories. The term is sometimes used as a verb. To queer something is...
The expression "contemporary art" employed by Bui Nhu Huong illustrates the discrepancies that Vietnam was having on the meaning of that term. 6 These two artists date their performance in the grounds of Hanoi's Temple of Lit- erature to 1997 (Tien Van Mieu, n.d.,), although Taylor (...
“queer” may be a hint of confusion, double meaning, or a feeling that something is (pleasantly) “off.” It is, as television scholar Lynn Joyrich puts it, “the keen and artful presence of a certain absence…and the accompanying logic of undecidability, incongruity, and allusion.”9...
The United States of Queer 2016 : The United States of Queer: Contemporary Narratives of LGBT Minorities