The featured study exam mographic characteristics and sexualy of people who intify as queer, pared to those who intify as lbian/gay, bisexual, and other sexual mory inti.
Contents:
- IS BEG QUEER GAY? SEXUAL ATTRACTN PATTERNS, MORY STRSORS, AND PSYCHOLOGIL DISTRS NON-TRADNAL CATEGORI OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
IS BEG QUEER GAY? SEXUAL ATTRACTN PATTERNS, MORY STRSORS, AND PSYCHOLOGIL DISTRS NON-TRADNAL CATEGORI OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN
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Aromantic: dividuals who do not experience romantic attractn toward dividuals of any genr(s)Biromantic: romantic attractn toward mal and femalHeteroromantic: romantic attractn toward person(s) of a different genrHomoromantic: romantic attractn towards person(s) of the same genrPanromantic: romantic attractn towards persons of every genr(s)Polyromantic: romantic attractn toward multiple, but not all genrsGray-romantic: dividuals who do not often experience romantic attractnDemiromantic: an dividual who do not experience romantic attractn until after a close emotnal bond has been formed. Mi-homoromantic). 8%) wh those who intify as lbian/gay (n = 833; 46.
Sexual partnerg and attractn) of people who intify as queer, pared to those who intify as lbian/gay, bisexual, or other sexual mory inti, to better unrstand if, and how, queer-intified people are distct om other sexual mory groups.
Sexualy wise, queer dividuals are more likely to report attractn to, and sexual relatnships wh, transgenr and GQNB people, though differenc emerge by genr morn gay liberatn movement has provid an creasgly public social space for dividuals to regnize and name their same-sex attractns, relatnships, and inti.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
Followg, the tegori and labels that reflect distctive inti have evolved: addn to gay, lbian, and bisexual, other non-heterosexual inty labels are creasgly beg ed, cludg asexual, pansexual, and, the inty group that is the foc of this article, queer. Reprentative sample of sexual meang of queer intyPeople make meang of their sexual orientatn and inty such that any two people of the same sexual inty may differ substantially whom they are attracted to, partner wh sexually, and engage wh romantic relatnships (Vrangalova & Sav-Williams, 2012) typilly, lbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual inti have been fed by genred attractn and partnerg patterns. That is, heterosexual men and women are assumed to be exclively attracted to, rpectively, women and men; lbians are attracted to women; gay men are attracted to men; and bisexual men and women are attracted to both men and women.
In amic realms, queer was a term that, for some, offered a crique of the mastream lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) muny (Howard, 2018). In the ntext of the muny and amic disurs, queer emerged as a social and personal inty for some, fed by rejectn of bary tegori of genr and sexualy, and cln of any sexual or genr inty that is non-normative, disptg tegori such as man and woman, and gay and others, queer beme ed activist circl to scribe a llective group, liberately selectg the term orr to nont the prejudice implied the pejorative e of the term. For those people who intify as queer orr to scribe their dividual sexual inty, rather than dite affiliatn wh the ‘queer umbrella’ of sexual and genr mori, queer reflects an inty label adopted ntrast to tradnal inti such as lbian, gay, or bisexual (Callis, 2014).
An exploratn of the LGBTQ Natnal Teen Survey, a populatn-based sample of over 17, 000 LGBTQ youth aged 13–17 2017, found that over 37% of the sample intified as somethg other than gay/lbian or bisexual, cludg 4. This is siar to an timate om a 2003–2005 California-based sample of high school youth who participated Gay-Straight Allianc (GSA), which found that 5.