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.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
I am gay, not queer. I’m non bary and gay. Gay is not Queer?