A bomb dropped by a queer or trans soldier still kills Why are we dog anti-war and anti-ary recment outreach at queer and trans events? For a long time, mastream media, support of lbian and gay cln the US ary, have phed a narrative of proud LGBT ary service. The stori, often profilg…
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TENSNS BETWEEN TRANS WOMEN AND GAY MEN BOIL OVER AT STONEWALL ANNIVERSARY
In the new war on gay and trans people, the oute is already clear. * war trans gay *
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.