For Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month, Dennis Zotigh, a cultural specialist at the Natnal Mm of the Amerin Indian, ved Native iends to tell how their tradnal culture saw s LGBTQ members. A Chirihua Apache iend replied, “Now, Dennis, this is a human qutn, not [jt] Native.” We agree. But we also appreciate hearg what Native Amerins have learned, renstcted, or been unable to renstct about this part of our shared history and experience.
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MORE THAN JT THE “GAY INDIANS”
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June is Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month the Uned Stat. Native natns are siar to other world populatns the mographic reprentatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals. Adopted as part of the morn pan-Indian vobulary 1990 durg the third annual ter-tribal Native Amerin/First Natns Gay and Lbian Amerin Conference, Wnipeg, Manoba, refers to dividuals who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgenr, transsexual, or genr-fluid.
For our pri observance this year, the mm asked our Native iends, “How did your tribe tradnally view dividuals who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr?
NATIVE AMERIN YEARNS FOR OLD VIEWS OF GAYS, LBIANS
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My grandmother, the late Lucy Lewis, had gay and lbian iends.
Amerin Indian gay, bisexual and two-spir men: a rapid asssment of HIV/AIDS risk factors, barriers to preventn and culturally-sensive terventn on JSTOR. “I thk people slanr two-spirs as ‘gay Indians. “Some misnceptns are all two-spir people are transgenr femal or drag queens, but they are jt feme gay native men, ” Co-Cke’ said.
“My trib are; Mgee Creek, who know we exist but are not embracg our culture; Blackfeet, who are aware of the tradn and mostly except ; Osage, who are mostly supportive of gay marriage, but haven’t embraced the two-spirt culture and Peoria, who do not except the culture, ” Co-Cke’ said. The Gayly regniz there are many other trib and two-spir muni not regnized this article but acknowledg their existence and importance to the unrstandg of two-spir culture. Copyright The Gayly – October 29, 2018 @ 12 p.
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“All my life, I was told that beg gay was wrong, pecially at the rervatn, ” said Stabler, now 32.
It wasn’t always that direct, but “I felt like nobody liked gay people. But there was a different time, when gays and lbians were not only accepted Native muni but, some s, revered bee they embodied the “two spirs:” male and female. As a rult, she said, gay youth, Native or otherwise, “have sometim been ostracized and intified as different.
Cly Tyndall, the Indian Center’s executive director, said a creed of acceptance is ed the way of his people and that more mt be done to help gay and Lbian youth. Stabler, who is now openly gay and is a mted relatnship wh a non-Native man, nces he do not know a lot about the old ncept of “two spirs. ” But he yearns for the old ways of thkg about gays and lbians.