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 ...
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 ...
The intended message of the well-meaning sharp distinguisher between the two, I am aware, is something more along the lines of “just because someone is [a particular gender] and/or has [a certain expression] doesn’t inherently imply someone has [insert sexual orientation here].” (and var...
The character does seem to be queer as in LGBTQ queer, but it also has this double meaning that there is this beautiful body positive monster that I love. I love the bit where Dennis, just finally makes his move against them and they reveal the horns on their back and their beautiful ...
I wish I could remember who it was that said something along the lines of “I haven’t crossed gender, gender has crossed me,” meaning that the possibilities for gender generally acknowledged out there are more limited than people’s lived experience of gender: this is what being trans* ...
The United States of Queer 2016 : The United States of Queer: Contemporary Narratives of LGBT MinoritiesUSQ
Knauss and Pezzoli-Oligati describe art’s ability to have multiple interpretations: “Because these practices of looking and relating are necessarily subjective and dynamic, they are open to multiple significations and conflicting meaning making processes: they can, at the same time, communicate domi...
“queer” as an anti-gay slur, there emerged a movement in the 1980s that sought to reclaim the term and rob it of its negative meaning. In this usage, “queer” is an inclusive umbrella term that designates all those who are sexually dissident, even if they are not strictly homosexual...
I now understood viscerally the meaning of being a social organism, existentially interdependent with others, whom, as parts of one’s expanded self, could no longer be “othered.” The perception shifted most easily among biological relations, whom, by virtue of shared genetic and cultural ...