Fact: Lesbians are cold blooded, they need something warm beneath them or they can’t digest their food
OMG, that means I’m a lesbian!!!!1 O.O
*Self identity shattered*
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Source: factsaboutqueers
What's wrong with heteronormativity? | Meg Barker
What is wrong with heteronormativity?
It leaves people feeling alienated and alone.
It is bad for LGBT people and other people who are outside of it.
It sets up an ‘us and them’ which enables homophobia, biphobia and transphobia to exist.
It is questionable whether the ‘normative’ form of heterosexuality actually is normal.
Our treatment of others should not be based on how normal, or not, they are.
It is bad for those who have some desires or feelings outside the ‘norm’.
It puts pressure on those who are inside it to stay inside it, and may prevent them for finding the kinds of sex and relationships that work for them.
What can we do about it?
Move to a model of sexual diversity rather than normality/abnormality.
I dressed for Rio: misterstibbons: I really do get REALLY ANNOYED when people say “LGBT”...
I really do get REALLY ANNOYED when people say “LGBT” and then go on to say, for example, “everyone should be respected regardless of sexual orientation.”
And you know,
that’s great, and I agree,
although that’s a weird way to phrase it, but
still a nice notion,
but
The T has literally nothing to do with sexual orientation.
There are lots of heterosexual trans people.
Probably the majority of trans people are heterosexual.
Because the majority of people full stop are heterosexual.
So it’s just
If you’re only going to talk about LGB-related things,
say LGB.
Because saying the whole initialism and then failing to acknowledge the T at all really isn’t helping in the slightest, and indeed it could be argued that saying T but then not saying anything about it is, in fact, actively detrimental,
because then people get the idea that language that is not T-inclusive actually is.
Respectfully, there’s no such thing as LGB. When people talk about “LGBT”, then dismiss the T and talk about sexual orientation, they’re also only talking about homosexuality (not even lesbianiam, either, not to mention asexuality). Grouping LGB together like that erases bisexual erasure and casts the B’s as participants in the oppression of the T’s.
It’s time for everyone to acknowledge that the “LGBT” movement isn’t only excluding the T’s, only excluding the A’s, or only excluding the B’s - it’s the fucking GGGG movement, and we’d better start refering to it like that, or we’re risking participating in the exclusion and erasure of other groups besides our own.
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Thus Dante’s motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: “Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.
Emma Goldman
Source: dwardmac.pitzer.edu
gqid:
It Gets Better, says Kate Bornstein
Gender outlaw Kate Bornstein’s contribution to the It Gets Better project - humorous, heart-warming, and inspiring. The book mentioned is Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws (click here to see if it’s available at a library near you!)
Kate Bornstein FTW. <3 Trans women :D
LGBTQ* Polls and Culture Views
Views on Gay and Lesbian Issues by Age
(General Public, Millennials (18-29), Seniors (65+) )
** Public Religion Research Institute, July 2011
And none for the bisexuals or pansexuals!
Being erased and invisible sure is great.
“This paper examines heterosexual adults’ attitudes toward bisexual men and women. Ratings were lower (less favorable) for bisexual men and bisexual women than for all other groups assessed—including religious, racial, ethnic, and political groups—except injecting drug users. More negative attitudes toward bisexuals were associated with higher age, less education, lower annual income, residence in the South and rural areas, higher religiosity, political conservatism, traditional values concerning gender and sexual behavior, authoritarianism, and lack of contact with gay men or lesbians.”
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Source: knowhomo
“I’ve found that because the gay community treats us poorly that enables the straight community to do the same, because their gay friends have de facto sanctioned it.” ~Micah Z. Kellner, out bisexual member of the New York State Assembly July 2009
Uh, WTF? Got the power balance a bit wrong, much?
I mean SRSLY, you can’t claim that gays and lesbians have more social power than heterosexuals. That’s both unconvincing and kind of insulting. If anything, gays and lesbians are participating in the monosexism sanctioned by the heterosexual culture, not the other way around.
SRSLY.
I believe you have misinterpreted his comments. What he is saying is that when gay/lesbian people do not stand up for all their compatriots in the greater queer community and most especially when they work with the dominant culture to enforce a heteronormative paradigm that they are essentially collaborators with worst instincts of the straight culture in the oppression of the LGBTQ+ community.
Another example of this taken from relatively recent events in the USA would be when a major so called “gay rights” organization agreed to jettison trans* & gender variant people in return for an (ultimately illusory) “agreement” that a small cissexists/assimilationists subset of gay men and lesbian women would be given more “rights” and greater access power, money, et. al.
I am definitely not denying the rampant biphobia and transphobia in the GGGG movement. However, the way Kellner put it, you’d think that heterosexuals are accomplices in gay and lesbian monosexism, rather than the other way around.
“I’ve found that because the gay community treats us poorly that enables the straight community to do the same, because their gay friends have de facto sanctioned it.” ~Micah Z. Kellner, out bisexual member of the New York State Assembly July 2009
Uh, WTF? Got the power balance a bit wrong, much?
I mean SRSLY, you can’t claim that gays and lesbians have more social power than heterosexuals. That’s both unconvincing and kind of insulting. If anything, gays and lesbians are participating in the monosexism sanctioned by the heterosexual culture, not the other way around.
SRSLY.
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Source: facebook.com
Labels Project, Vol. One
The Labels Project is a collaborative project between myself and Hedda Hammer, a bay area artist and writer, and came after we attended our first pride events in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Being newly out we noticed quite a few groups and sub groups that we felt were not properly represented in the media, even our own media. We felt that there was so much about the LGBTQ community that we did not know, and I’m sure others don’t know about.
Though the project has gone through some changes since it’s initial conception, we hope it hope it will continue to grow and evolve as does our community.
Awesomeness
I love the way that bisexuals are just not cool/radical/subversive/awesome enough to be in those things.
While we’re at it - I’m for a politics of refusing to be cool, or a politics of the ugly.
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I’m a butch-ish bisexual, where does that leave me?
I’m an ugly raging bifeminist, myself :D
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Source: dumbdeviantart
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