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
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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.
QUEER VS. GAY: HOW THE WORDS ARE DIFFERENT, AND WHY IT’S IMPORTANT
* gay not queer *
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. They learn that I am gay, and they simply assume that mak me queer.
I'M GAY, NOT 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.