Great article though I'd disagree that the movement was spawned only by Stomewall.
One thing you wrote:
LGBTQ+ activists also fail to recognize that the cavalcade of gender identities has brought an aspect to advocacy efforts not previously part of the LGB movement: an emphasis on educating children about sexual orientation and gender.
Great article though I'd disagree that the movement was spawned only by Stomewall.
One thing you wrote:
LGBTQ+ activists also fail to recognize that the cavalcade of gender identities has brought an aspect to advocacy efforts not previously part of the LGB movement: an emphasis on educating children about sexual orientation and gender.
When I was a child, my anxiety about being gay and the questions from children about me and my husband (25th anniversary; married in Holland) have been not how we have sex, or sexual orientation, it was marriage. That's what children first see - the two parent household and the expectation they will be in one. I thought I would only be married if I became a girl.
A six year old daughter of a Dutch colleqgue who asks - "Are A and B married?" "Yes". "But they're boys". "Men and Women can marry; men can also marry men, and women can marry women". "Oh OK. What's for lunch".
No sex or gender, just a reassurance of facts at the level that makes sense. For gay boys and lesbian girls, I suspect that feeling they will find the right boy or girl is all the reassurance they need to feel belonging, and not isolated. Anything else is disorientatig because teaching children the mechanics of sex (not reproduction) is for the most part not something they can comprehend until puberty.
A friend of mine who is an Anthropologist of note feels the TQ+ side is a wedge issue which will be used increasingly attack the GLB side; she certainly has experienced it as a feminist for decades. I have to agree with her.
In the US we need a parade June 26 to celebrate the ruling on federal decriminalization of gay and lesbian sex (2003), federal recognition of marriage (2013), and same-sex marriage as a right (2015) - all of which occured on the same day; full civil rights as any other citizen.
That's all by, for, and about GLB freedom, and needs no month, week, or day of festivities.
And it's close enough to the Stonewall Riots kickoff date of June 28, 1969, which is what the original pride-like event in NYC was commemorating the following year.
I am generating a 50 book series tracing a half century of gay life through the eyes of 8 men going to fire island each summer.
I’ll release tiny eye candy videos here made from chapter summaries with “what also happened” voiceover, there is so much going on in the background it’s amazing.
Great article though I'd disagree that the movement was spawned only by Stomewall.
One thing you wrote:
LGBTQ+ activists also fail to recognize that the cavalcade of gender identities has brought an aspect to advocacy efforts not previously part of the LGB movement: an emphasis on educating children about sexual orientation and gender.
When I was a child, my anxiety about being gay and the questions from children about me and my husband (25th anniversary; married in Holland) have been not how we have sex, or sexual orientation, it was marriage. That's what children first see - the two parent household and the expectation they will be in one. I thought I would only be married if I became a girl.
A six year old daughter of a Dutch colleqgue who asks - "Are A and B married?" "Yes". "But they're boys". "Men and Women can marry; men can also marry men, and women can marry women". "Oh OK. What's for lunch".
No sex or gender, just a reassurance of facts at the level that makes sense. For gay boys and lesbian girls, I suspect that feeling they will find the right boy or girl is all the reassurance they need to feel belonging, and not isolated. Anything else is disorientatig because teaching children the mechanics of sex (not reproduction) is for the most part not something they can comprehend until puberty.
A friend of mine who is an Anthropologist of note feels the TQ+ side is a wedge issue which will be used increasingly attack the GLB side; she certainly has experienced it as a feminist for decades. I have to agree with her.
In the US we need a parade June 26 to celebrate the ruling on federal decriminalization of gay and lesbian sex (2003), federal recognition of marriage (2013), and same-sex marriage as a right (2015) - all of which occured on the same day; full civil rights as any other citizen.
That's all by, for, and about GLB freedom, and needs no month, week, or day of festivities.
And it's close enough to the Stonewall Riots kickoff date of June 28, 1969, which is what the original pride-like event in NYC was commemorating the following year.
I am generating a 50 book series tracing a half century of gay life through the eyes of 8 men going to fire island each summer.
I’ll release tiny eye candy videos here made from chapter summaries with “what also happened” voiceover, there is so much going on in the background it’s amazing.
Yep.