My Adjectives are not Your Nouns | The Supreme Court is Giving Me Life | Rainbows and Unicorns | This One Time, at Camp Camp... | Homonormativity, or |
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What is "putting -ed on the end of 'transgender'"?
You would never say "femaled" or "maled," but plenty of (wrong) people still do this
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Who were the claimants in Obergefell v. Hodges?
April and Jayne, James and John, David and William, Kelly and Kelly, Georgia and Pamela, Kimberly and Tamara...
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Who is k.d. lang?
http://elpoderdelasideas.com/images/portadas-revista-controver/11lang-cindy.jpg
Sang torch songs so gay, Cindy Crawford had to give her a shave
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What is "being campy"?
It's what you're doing in the library when you do this:
http://fancylibrarian.tumblr.com/post/61968059157/unsuccessfulmetalbenders-katy-perrys-new-song |
What is biphobia?
The idea that people who identify as bisexual just haven't chosen a side
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What are sexual orientations and gender identities?
The LGBTQAI acronym can be confusing because it contains both of these
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Who is Justice Antonin Scalia?
He said "The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie."
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What is "Stonewall"?
The name of a bad movie that came out in September, a bar in New York, and the start of the U.S. gay rights movement
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What is "camp"?
It's where you go sleep on the ground, find peace, and maybe pretend you're not living the crazy life you clearly are
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What is "homonormative"? Or, what is "heteronormativity as a model for 'better' gay living"?
The assumption that all gay people want to marry a same-sex partner and have 2.5 children and an SUV
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What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
After its removal from this medical resource, homosexuality was no longer considered a medical disorder
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What is the 14th Amendment?
Because of this, a state can't exclude you from the protection of the law
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What is "at a ball"?
If you're fierce, you might be there with the (other) children
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What is "camp"?
Susan Sontag says it is a form of seduction
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What is a gender binary?
The belief that there is a gender continuum with masculine on one side and feminine on the other and that all gender identities fall somewhere along this line
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What is "when someone messes up your name or pronouns"?
You might need to commune with your deepest most understanding kind self in order to deal when this happens to you or someone you care about http://everyoneisgay.com/category/watch/page/7/
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Who is Justice Ginsburg?
They all wear robes, but she wears a jabot as well
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What is "I identify as asexual"?
I would rather eat cake (or something equally delicious)
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What is "camp"?
It's when a drag performer exaggerates Kim Kardashian's butt or Bette Davis's eyes
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What is U.S.-centric imperialism?
The problem some other countries face when trying to advocate for indigenous, non-mainstream forms of sexuality by using the language of LGBTQ rights?
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What is "queer"?
A very complicated word that you can spend ALL NEXT SEMESTER studying
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What is the day MN started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples?
It was Francis Scott Key's birthday, but on August 1, 2013, Minnesotans were busy celebrating something else
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What is "elected its first openly gay mayor"?
Rainbows just got a little brighter in Salt Lake City and Hastings MN because of this
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What is "camp"?
It's when Queer Twitter cries because watching The Wiz is so everything
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What is "racist"?
The idea that other (usually colonized) cultures/peoples have ways of thinking about gender and/or sexuality that are more "spiritual," "natural," or "earthy"
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What is "Could literally be just about anything but probably involved YouTube"?
That one time when you showed up for class and you were all like "George, what are we going to do today?" And George was all like...
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