{"id":20,"date":"2018-01-27T01:35:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T01:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/?p=20"},"modified":"2018-01-27T01:36:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T01:36:12","slug":"sexual-orientation-and-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/sexual-orientation-and-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Orientation and Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Amber Hollibaugh writes that the gay liberation movement has turned into a\u00a0\u201ctame civil rights challenge.\u201d Amber\u2019s main point focuses on how the gay liberation movement was once a rebellion against the current systems and norms in place regarding gender and sexuality. The gay movement since then has turned into a movement\u00a0who\u2019s only visible representatives are gay men who\u00a0subscribe to typical gender norms and try to show everyone that queer people are normal. This only shows one side of the story and, although successful in winning court cases such as gay marriage, it does not\u00a0challenge the social norms of gender and sexuality as the movement once did. This can result in some members of the LGBTQ+ community feeling left without a voice.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Riki Wilchins writes,\u00a0\u201cwhite American culture tends to be one of the few that splits sexual orientation from gender.\u201d Wilchins also argues however, that those who are transgender and cross gender lines and those who visibility and publicly display their sexual orientation often\u00a0align due to the related problems problems that they face. I\u00a0have\u00a0encounter this in my own life as well. Those who may be more\u00a0ambiguous\u00a0in their gender and those who may be\u00a0visibly queer often face\u00a0similar issues with passing and being accepted within our societies norms.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I find the language as a real tool the most productive as it points out that language only allows for us to put people into boxes of boyish or girlish, however, gender and sexuality are so much more\u00a0complex than that. We struggle\u00a0with the appropriate words for what people may identify as and in a way it may make it feel less real. Wilchins argues that binaries create\u00a0hierarchies, however, I\u2019m confused where those that do not fit into the binary would fit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;<em>PV<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Hollibaugh writes that the gay liberation movement has turned into a\u00a0\u201ctame civil rights challenge.\u201d Amber\u2019s main point focuses on how the gay liberation movement was once a rebellion against the current systems and norms in place regarding gender and sexuality. The gay movement since then has turned into a movement\u00a0who\u2019s only visible representatives are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/sexual-orientation-and-gender\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sexual Orientation and Gender&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}