Contents:
- NO, TRANS IS NOT ‘THE NEW GAY’
- “TRANS? WHY NOT GAY?”: ADDRSG SOME MISUNRSTANDGS
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
- ARE ALL TRANSGENR PEOPLE GAY?
NO, TRANS IS NOT ‘THE NEW GAY’
It’s often assumed that beg trans is somehow very siar to beg gay. As a gay man, I grew up wh a certa ia of the gay muny. Sometim, this ia was a b skewed: “talkg heads” on TV tend to be gay men, rather than lbians; there was also a skew towards the young, and the urban.
“TRANS? WHY NOT GAY?”: ADDRSG SOME MISUNRSTANDGS
Reprentativ of the gay muny weren’t often que as diverse as they might have been: the retired lbian livg Devon or Northern Ontar or Kansas was ls likely to make onto the screen than, say, the young gay man livg London or Toronto or San Francis.
We’re all thkg more about what means to be gay, and what means to be trans.
If you say you’re hungry, you’ll probably be believed; likewise, if you say that you’re gay, or if you say that you’re trans. ’ And no-one wants to repeat the errors of the past, when parliaments, schools, relig ngregatns and medil tablishments llectively failed to extend basic human digni to homosexuals. But assumg that ‘beg trans is like beg gay’ is a simplistic viewpot.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
There have always been gay people. Gay people exist all across the world.
Homosexualy is seen across the animal kgdom. 4: Beg gay is empirilly verifiable. Beg gay never requir medilisatn.
Beg gay do not typilly have orbidi. Beg gay is not socially fluenced.
ARE ALL TRANSGENR PEOPLE GAY?
Beg gay do not require others to change their behavur. Beg gay is not premised on social stereotyp. Homosexualy warrants mentn the Bible – albe unflatterg mentn – and other ancient relig texts bis.
Different cultur have different rpons to same-sex attractn – sometim, as untri like Sdi Arabia, wh vastatg nsequenc for gay and bisexual people. Mahmoud Ahmadejad proudly clared that Iran has no gay people: and is hardly surprisg that Iranian gays would be keepg their sexualy on the downlow, given the punishments which would otherwise awa them.