In the new war on gay and trans people, the oute is already clear.
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TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY
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That both queer acceptance and anti-queer backlash seem to be proliferatg ways that should be impossible, or at the very least should ncel each other out, but are stead turng Ameri to a patchwork quilt of homophobic hellhol and sanctuary jurisdictns, like a th rabow sheen floatg on a dirty puddle. This was a profoundly homosocial world: Victorian men were expected to spend all their time wh other men, and women wh other women; was a time when great love between people of the same sex was celebrated openly lerature and song; a time when Abraham Lln uld share a bed wh his male bt iend for four years wh ltle mentary on . In this world, people who we today thk of as genr-normative homosexuals (aka your humdm cis gays) didn’t see themselv as all that different om anyone else, and didn’t have an ia of their sexualy as a stand-alone inty.
Anyone who flagrantly vlated the nventns of genr was labeled an “vert, ” which is an ia that b and llaps our ias of beg trans, beg gay, and beg tersex—all of which were unrstood as failur of genr.
Unr this ia of “versn, ” people we ll feme gay men, trans women, butch lbians, and trans men were all seen as part of the same vert inty. It took s, but our morn tegori of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr started to supplant ias of versn. Soon, the people would be tegorized as their own thg—homosexuals—and any sign of homosocial behavr, which had been so celebrated before, beme an ditor of hidn homosexualy.