lgbtq
The letters LGBTQ are just another way of saying that Love is Love.
Prisoners of the "+"
They are non-binary, she is aromantic. She is pansexual, he is asexual. Together, they are the "+." Without them, the "+" cannot exist. However, it keeps them silent and invisible. Even if multiple people in this group don't consider themselves "gay," to this day, most people call the LGBT+ community "the gay community," from ignorance or from lack of care. The reason? The last two letters are still hard to swallow. Lesbian, gay? Alright, that's fine. Bisexual? C'mon! Why don't you just choose one of the two genders, so we can call it a day. Transgender? You can't choose your gender, what is this? Taking that into consideration, it just makes sense that everything "after," which means the people included in the "+" are systematically invalidated. This then forces these people to wait their turn to speak, no matter how long it will take. In this article, I will try as best as I can, to give them the right to speak up about their experience.
By Allie Pauld7 years ago in Humans
The Colours of the Rainbow
As the common world becomes more and more accepting of differences of all sorts, the LGBTQ+ community is more and more accepted as a part of modern society and media. We can now watch TV shows and movies with more diverse characters. The trope of the feminine gay best friend who is always there to help the main female protagonist with her fashion crises, boyfriend troubles and girl drama is an over used yet, I guess, effective way to prove that your project is diverse, brilliant and avant-garde! However, you will notice that this character, on top of being a pure stereotype of your average homosexual man, is almost always thin, attractive...and white. When we get to see representation of queer folks, which is not so often anyways, these characters always look the same way: White; therefore, leaving people of colour behind. The intersection of transgender, gay and bisexual identities cross other ones in real life. So how long will we have to wait to see an Asian trans guy on TV? I don't know. Until then, I would like to let the people experiencing these intersections talk about their reality, because we simply cannot wait for the mainstream media to do it.
By Allie Pauld7 years ago in Humans
Love, Pride, and Honesty
Everyone has their own story. Each individual in the LGBT+ community comes out in a different way, and for some it is much easier than others. Some people have known who they are their whole life, while others struggled through confusion and the act trying to accept themselves.
By Carina Rose7 years ago in Humans
Validity
We're in an interesting time socially and politically. Many people called it divided, but I would say that the divisions are just more visible now. Two, three, five years before, the type of conversations that are being held on race, class, religion, gender, culture would never have been a part of public discourse. Not because these issues weren't there, but because there was this idea that we were "past" these things as a society.
By Candace Elizabeth7 years ago in Humans
Warmth
"Come dance with me." I looked up, the gym lights blinding me momentarily. My eyes took a few seconds to adjust but when they were used to the light, I realized who was standing there, asking me to dance. It was him, the boy I came to know in July, the boy I loved in secret.
By Derek Evers7 years ago in Humans
Latina, Queer, and Raising for Success
As I start to type, I go back in time to my childhood. Everything seemed so different back then and part of that was because I used to live in a different country where beliefs and values varied a little from the American ones. While I was living my early teenage years in El Salvador, there were a lot of things that seem quite impossible for me. Self discovery was tough, so I relied on lying and pretending to be like everybody else. In reality I was just trying to fit in. When I moved out to California, I had no idea how different things would turn out to be. My entire life up to that point I had only known the Latin culture. The only time I was exposed to a different one was through movies and TV; and we all know how those are modified. In the book, the definition of positionality says “Positionality refers to one's social location or position within an intersecting web of socially constructed hierarchical categories, such as race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality and physical abilities to name a few (Sorrells 13).” By being Latina and part of the LGBT community I found myself belonging in both, non-dominant groups and dominant groups, yet I belong into the dominant group by having the ability of communication.
By Gabriela Linares7 years ago in Humans
