Straights for gays
THE QUEER NATION MANIFESTO
Text of a manifesto originally passed out by people marching with the ACT UP contingent in the Recent York Gay Pride Time parade, -
How can I tell you. How can I convince you, brother; sister that your life is in threat. That everyday you rouse up alive, relatively content, and a functioning human being, you are committing a rebellious act. You as an alive and functioning queer are a revolutionary. There is nothing on this planet that validates, protects or encourages your existence. It is a miracle you are standing here reading these words. You should by all rights be dead.
Don't be fooled, straight people own the world and the only reason you have been spared is you're intelligent, lucky, or a fighter. Straight people have a privilege that allows them to do whatever they please and f without fear. But not only do they live a life free of fear; they flaunt their autonomy in my face. Their images are on my TV, in the magazine I bought, in the restaurant I want to eat in, and on the street where I live. I want there to be a moratorium on straight marriage, on babies, on public displays of affection among the opposite sex and media images that prom
Gay and lesbian adults determine more with straight and bisexual individuals, nearly doubling in percentage compared to what they have in common with transgender individuals, according to a modern survey.
Why It Matters
It's approaching 10 years to the day since the U.S. Supreme Court guaranteed rights to same-sex marriage in the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, effectively raising common awareness and sentiment towards gay unions. The Trump administration successfully ran on LGBTQ issues including limiting genders to two (male and female), and banning male-born transgender athletes from competing in women's sports.
What To Know
A new survey published Thursday by the Pew Research Center looked into how LGBTQ adults see the impact of Obergefell, how they view social acceptance for LGBTQ adults more broadly, and how their personal experiences align with public opinion.
About half of gay and lesbian adults said they have a great deal or a fair amount in common with bi-curious people (50 percent) and straight people (51 percent), compared to 28 percent who said they hold a lot in ordinary with transgender people.
While roughly 70 percent of transsexual adults say they contain feared
Glossary of Terms: LGBTQ
Definitions were drafted in collaboration with other U.S.-based LGBTQ group organizations and leaders. Observe acknowledgements section.
Additional terms and definitions about gender identity and gender statement, transgender people, and nonbinary people are available in the Transgender Glossary.
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*NOTE: Ask people what terms they employ to describe their sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression before assigning them a label. Outside of acronyms, these terms should only be capitalized when used at the beginning of a sentence.
LGBTQ
Acronym for womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. The Q generally stands for queer when LGBTQ organizations, leaders, and media use the acronym. In settings offering endorse for youth, it can also stand for questioning. LGBT and LGBTQ+ are also used, with the + added in recognition of all non-straight, non-cisgender identities. (See Transgender Glossary ) Both are acceptable, as are other versions of this acronym. The term &#;gay community&#; should be avoided, as it does not accurately indicate the div
an unequal distribution of partners: gays versus straights
Sexuality and inequality research
by Paula England and Eliza Brown | July 1,
Do some gay men acquire lots of partners while others have very few? Is the inequality in partnerships among gay men greater than how unequally women partners are distributed among heterosexual men? What about straight women versus lesbians?
In our last upload, focused on heterosexuals, we showed that women partners are more unequally distributed among men than male partners are among women, and that partners are more unequally distributed among singles than those who are in a marital or cohabiting union. Here, using methods similar to those in our previous post, we use Gini indices to compare homosexual men, straight men, lesbians, and straight women in how unequally their sexual partnerships are distributed. The technical details of what we did are explained at the end of this post.
How inequality differs by gender and sexual orientation
As the graph below shows, lesbians own the most unequal distribution of partnerships, followed by gay men, then unbent men, with straight women having the most same distribution.
To understand why the g
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