Queer vs. Gay: How The Words Are Different, And Why It’s Important |

Contents:

• THERE ARE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENC BETWEEN GAY AND TRANS INTI
• TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY
• WE N THANK GAY ACTIVISTS FOR TODAY’S EPIMIC OF TRANS NFN
• QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
• GAY VS. TRANS

THERE ARE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENC BETWEEN GAY AND TRANS INTI

In his ntributn, Mr Smh argu that there are parallels between beg gay as an inty, and beg transgenr as an inty, and that both s, this should be the basis for protectg rights and benefs for the people ncerned. Givg gay people the rights and benefs tradnally afford to straight people don’t take anythg signifint away om straight people. There’s no qutn that trans people should have all human rights; however, when to benefs, givg trans women some of the benefs afford to femal—for stance, accs to sex-segregated spac and rourc—do seem to remove some benefs and even rights om femal; or so I argue my here I want to ncentrate on Mr Smh’s ia that there are parallels between gay and transgenr inty.

He pots out that the ia of beg gay as an inty, the sense of beg a fundamental part of onelf, only emerged relatively late on the long history of sexual activy between people of the same sex.

However, I thk we also need to pture an ambiguy between two possible sens which “beg gay” n unt as an inty, or fundamental part of first sense refers to beg gay as a sexual orientatn, and is generalised to all gay people, as such.

TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY

The same pot appli to beg heterosexual or send, different sense which beg gay n unt as part of your “inty” is as a matter of beg highly personally meangful for you. Many people wh a gay sexual orientatn don’t feel like f them, or that ’s of much importance at all scribg who they are.

So only some gay people have a “gay inty” this send sense. But all gay people have the first sense, by fn.

It’s what mak them Smh suggts that for trans women and men, beg trans is an inty, jt as is for gay people.

WE N THANK GAY ACTIVISTS FOR TODAY’S EPIMIC OF TRANS NFN

REUTERS/Brendan McDermidThe scene at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn on Saturday, as reported by multiple wns on social media, showed how long-simmerg tensns between transgenr women of lor and whe gay men have boiled over durg the celebratn of World Pri and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall unintified woman wanted to addrs the crowd si the Greenwich Village gay bar where patrons fought back agast police harassment 50 years ago, birthg the LGBTQ movement. I would like to say the dience was rpectful, but there was que a b of chatter and a few jeers, ” wns Aspen Eberhardt, fance manager of the gay rights group PFLAG, wrote on many gay men, this weekend’s celebratn is about fally beg able to live their te liv, unaaid to clare who they love and beg grateful for achievg virtual equaly, at least plac like Greenwich Village, where the rebelln many transgenr women of lor, reprentg the T the LGBTQ muny, have seized the moment to air their grievanc, such as sufferg om higher levels of unemployment and homelsns as their cisgenr gay and lbian brethren.

“The trans muny has not ma the same progrs as the cis gay muny has. We’ve been largely abandoned by the gay rights movement, ” said Calamy Alexis, 19, a prchool teacher livg Brooklyn who both he and she pronouns. Certaly many gay whe men are active promotg transgenr rights, regnizg that transgenr women of lor particular suffer om discrimatn ways they did 50 years ago.

QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT

Mastream gay rights groups often make a pot of standg up for trans women. “Growg up as a gay man Texas, I found strength that the rt of the muny was there for me.

And now, wh where we are now, ’s my rponsibily to be there for the rt of the muny, ” said Brett Donaldson, 28, a whe gay man om New there is still lgerg rentment born out of the movement’s origs. But wh four years, “drag queens, ” as they were lled then, were banned om the annual gay pri para that Johnson and Rivera helped the Trans Day of Actn, a rally New York’s Washgton Square Park on Friday, people shouted: “Who started this fight? ”“Gay men, they n assiate.

And the fluential gay blogger Andrew Sullivan recently voted a lengthy piece to this subject tled “The Queers Vers the Homosexuals. This has long been an sential part of the tnal curriculum phed schools by groups like GLSEN (the Gay, Lbian, Straight Edutn Network).

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Sullivan, reuntg the history of LGBT activism, wrote, “Then the queers upped the ante and did somethg we gays never did: they targeted children.

That is exactly what the “queers” where he was wrong was sayg that “we gays” never targeted children. ” They were part and parcel of the larger gay-activist learship, not least, the realm of children’s tn. (And remember one of the bt-known cri of early gay activists: “We’re here, we’re queer, get ed to .

”This was not peripheral to the larger gay-activist agenda. It was right the center of , part of the radil war agast heterosexual normativy and the hated genr ’s why one of the olst gay activist anizatns the untry began 1973 as the Natnal Gay Task Force. Focg aga on children’s tn (= doctratn), GLSEN was found by a group of teachers 1990, voted to providg a “safe” environment for LGBT-intifyg 2007, GLSEN troduced the Lunch Box 2, “a prehensive trag program aimed at providg tors and muny members wh the background knowledge, skills and tools necsary to make schools safer and more affirmg plac for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) stunts.

GAY VS. TRANS

)In lson after lson and activy after activy, children learn about well-known historil figur who were gay (or, allegedly gay), also masterg the many nuanc of LGBT vobulary. ’”Please don’t tell me today that this was not part of the gay activist agenda om early on and that was somehow hijacked by queer activists. In fact, the pro-gay and pro-trans narrativ were extribly ’s why, my sarstic poem, “Here At School the Slant Is Gay, ” I clud the l: “GLSEN will fill for Granny and help kids fd their ner-trannie.

) Thankfully, my lleague at Foc on the Fay, Jeff Johnston, has done the heavy liftg when to documentg the gay doctratn of two articl, which are mt reads, are, “Sorry ‘Gays Agast Groomers, ’ But Gay Activists Helped Start This Transgenr Fire” and “Sorry ‘Gays Agast Groomers, ’ But Gay Activists Helped Start This Transgenr Fire, Part Two. ? SummaryIn the ntext of LGBTQ+ inty, the word gay is typilly ed reference to a person who is sexually and/or romantilly attracted to people of their own sex or genr.

Some people may intify as both gay and queer, though others may e only one of the terms or a different term altogether. You may have qutns about why some people intify as gay, queer, both, or another specific way. In this article, we will expla how the terms gay and queer are ed differently the ntext of sexualy and genr inty.