Because of the constraints of language, grammatically it feels weird to call myself a lesbian sometimes, and gay feels too…normative? I associate ‘gay’ with the HRC, marriage, and an obsession with proving to straight people that I’m just like they are, so pretty please don’t deny me my rights! So I like using queer because it’s non-specific enough to confuse straight people and allow me to figure myself out in the midst of all that confusion. And as a non-binary person, queer fits me in a way other things don’t. I also use it because I’m a little confused about my sexuality - it’s not stagnant, it’s always evolving and changing. It forces straight people to look at me and sit in the uncomfortableness of not knowing who or how I fuck and demands that they respect me regardless of that. They have no clue what queer means - neither for themselves nor for me. I use it because of the revolutionary political implications I associate it with, but also I use it because it makes straight people so uncomfortable. So, this is how the Autostraddle team members who were in Slack at 5PM EST today identify! I put it in order by age.Īlaina, 24, Staff Writer: I used to call myself a lesbian (sometimes), but I now almost exclusively call myself queer. I’ve got no clue if not identifying as literally nothing is becoming popular outside of Kristen Stewart refusing to grant us the honor of a headline with “Kristen Stewart” and “Lesbian” in it, but it definitely seems to be true that young people are more likely to identify as the perceived-as-more-expansive “queer” now than they used to, as data from our own Reader Surveys suggest: So, we thought we’d get started by talking about how we identify, and why.
Are we really in the primordial stages of a post-coming out era? Or is this a fashionable way to stay in the closet? It is a step forward or a step backward?įirstly - the article is pretty focused on sexual orientation, not gender, and “T” is not the same kind of “label” as L,G, or B, and shouldn’t be discussed as one. That aside, there are some interesting quotes from some interesting people in this article. Today in Slack we learned that the piece is a big conversation starter. Maybe it’s a conversation a lot of you would like to have, even! The thought of discarding it like an outdated dress feels more untethering than it does liberating, which is why I stumble on the thought that we’ve truly reached a new point in sexual liberation, where asserting an L, G, B, or T has grown obsolete.
So I don’t really know that Miley Cyrus and Kristen Stewart are setting a trend.īut, despite what its accompanying graphics would suggest, luckily this article talks about more than just celebrities! It goes on to surmise and then ask: Furthermore, celebrities, who have tightly managed public images, and orchestrated ways of speaking about themselves and evading personal questions, are dealing with a whole different set of pressures than Kids These Days when it comes to sexuality labels.
It starts out just talking about celebrities, which is confusing, because, well - non-heterosexual celebrities refusing to label themselves has been pretty popular for quite some time. I would definitely say “oh lord no” to that question, but the article contains more than just that question, it has other thoughts and ideas inside it. Hey! Guess what there’s an article in ELLE Magazine today that asks if a “post-LGBT era” has arrived. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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