neonflux
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I would suggest you spend some time on the LGBT boards, but that isn't the most LGBT of places on Lit, LOL. BTW, I never see you trying to be an ass...Chris_Xavier said:What's the difference? (serious question, not trying to be an ass for once)
Again, forgive the obtuseness, but why is that distinction so important? I recalling seeing an episode of Real Sex on HBO where a woman who had stated she was a lesbian give her partner's strap on a bj - I'd imagine the phallic nature of strap on would have a negative connotation in the lesbian domain.
I am bisexual - a true exactly-in-the-middle-3 on the old Kinsey scale when it comes to those with whom I am able to fall in love and to whom I find myself sexually attracted. To me (there are many folks who hate the term, many more who might have a different definition), queer is as more a cultural and political term than it is a description of sexual orientation. It is broader and more embracing than the term lesbian or gay, it includes a delight in gender-play and fluidity, a desire not to "assimilate" but to maintain a separate sub-cultural identity. From Wiki :
Even though I am in love with a man, and he is and will continue to be my "primary" -hopefully into old age - I will eventually take on a woman lover (the relationship will be completely discreet from my relationship with ~D, except for a level of friendship, should both parties desire that). Culturally and politically, I "live" in the lgbtq (les-gay-bi-trans-queer) world - most of my friends are lgbtq, I interpret the world through that lens...The word queer has traditionally meant "strange" or "unusual," but currently it is also often used in reference to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and asexual communities. Its usage is controversial and underwent substantial changes over the course of the 20th century. The term is still considered by some to be offensive and derisive, and by others as a re-appropriated term used to describe a sexual orientation and/or gender identity or gender expression that does not conform to heteronormative society.
The designations (and self-identity as politics) are a product of a society which, for at least the past 400 years or so, has tried to control sex by catagorizing it and pathologizing it (ah Foucault !). I have been trying to find the author of this quote somewhere (for a thread on strap-ons and women in the GLBT forum) and couldn't identify it, but I think it was Lea Delaria who said, "I like penises, just not on men." *chuckle* Neon