Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you.
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I'M GAY, NOT QUEER
The term 'queer' is creasgly beg ed as a powerful form of disurse wh the LGBT muny for those who wish to avoid the more straight-cut labels of lbian, gay or exists as an umbrella term which is sometim ed to refer to the LGBT muny as a whole.
"I don't md gay people g the same toilet as me" - one of the ments I heard which bears no relatnship to the topic of non-bary a way, pas me to wre agast the e of the term 'queer' as do reprent much of what I want the LGBT and women's rights movements to achieve.
A society which one don't have to fe their genr or sexualy and where we are seen simply as dividuals wh all our distctns and when to discsg my sexual orientatn, I do not wish to e a term that was historilly ed to nigrate gay people orr to fe my mory stat.
AM I GAY?
It seems that any classifitn of sexualy or genr, no matter how obscure, is tomatilly granted a nnectn to the LGBT movement, which has now been extend to LGBTTTQQIAA (lbian; gay; bisexual; transgenr; transexual; two-spired; queer; qutng; tersex; asexual), merely due to the fact that 's not heterosexual or 'bary' my opn, we n all f to many of the tegori unr this ever growg umbrella. For a gay person, I mt be pretty straight bee I have no sire to embark on this 're of passage' to the gay world. Relatedqueerqueer theoryqueer studigaylgbtq.
I am gay, not queer. I’m non bary and gay.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
Gay is not Queer?
Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.
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