Knowg how to talk about inti of genr and sexualy is key to unrstandg LGBTQ+ experienc. Learn the distctns between "queer" and "gay."
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GAY NOT QUEER
Gay inti are based on blogil sex; genr inti erase blogil sex and replace wh genr. * gay not queer *
Gay inti are based on blogil sex; genr inti erase blogil sex and replace wh genr. ” I clarified that I do not intify as “queer”; I am gay. I am a gay man.
And I do not buy the notn that “gay” mt tomatilly be grouped to or nflated wh the label of “queer.
In fact, many rpects, the inti of gay and queer stand direct opposn to each other.
QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
Origally posted March 1, 2016 by Hari Ziyad at For a while, I thought I was gay. And maybe I was for some of that time – there’s nothg wrong wh beg gay. But I’m fely not now. I thought I was gay bee I thought I was a man, and I thought I was only and always attracted * gay not queer *
They learn that I am gay, and they simply assume that mak me queer.
It do recently, I never thought necsary to fe “gay” or “man, ” but when I say that I am gay, I mean that I am same-sex attracted; when I say that I am a man, I mean that I am an adult male. Mal are one of the two sex of a bary speci Homo sapiens.
Jt as adult mal are lled men, adult femal are lled women; and jt as same-sex attracted mal are lled gay men, same-sex attracted femal are lled lbians. Gay men are attracted to other mal; gay women, or lbians, are attracted to other femal. None of this impli that gay men or lbians are queer, for the inty of queer is another matter fns, turns out, are important, bee ntemporary queer iology do not necsarily accept them.
I'M GAY, NOT QUEER
The word “queer” was long ed as a pejorative agast gay people. Even those claimg to be asexual do not disprove a bary, sce the people are jt not attracted to eher of the two gay rights movement that sprang om the Stonewall rts of 1969 was focsed on the human rights of gays and lbians. Gays me out to raise visibily, then they fought for equal protectn unr the law.
The word “equal” is important bee their opponents would routely claim that gays wanted special rights. The fact that gays need to fight for the basic rights the first place speaks to the gree to which they had been nied on the basis of sexual orientatn the years before the emergence of queer theory as a formal amic disciple the 1980s, the word “queer” was flipped on s head.
To be queer was no longer simply about who a person was attracted to; was far more theory wanted to nstct much of what gays had fought to build—and more. ” Queers, this ntext, are not terted advancg any of the rights for which gays tirelsly fought; queers want to radilly transform the very stctur of society of which gays themselv are now a say that I am gay and not queer is not to dismiss the entire history of queer polics. Instead of allowg girls to be mascule or boys to be effemate, both of whom often later turn out to be gay, affirmative re matas that the children are transgenr and need to transn.