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AjGarciaFirstPaper 15 - 03 May 2012 - Main.AjGarcia
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< | Some LGBT individuals say they don’t like the word “queer” to describe the community because it implies being “odd” and “different.” My response is, so? The oppression of homophobia and the fear of being persecuted for our sexual and gender identity over the last hundred years engendered innovative and creative ways in defining our relationships, sexuality, and self-expression. Are we willing to throw this out the window for the opportunity to be just like miserable heterosexuals. By buying into heternormative marriage, we sacrifice our “queerness” and marginalize it as something weird that should be rejected. Instead, the sexual and gender traditions of our past have shown us an alternative way to express our sexuality and maintain relationships with the people we love. We should respect and embrace our queerdom, because it affords us the opportunity to do what we’d like instead of what heteronormativity says we should like It’s a shame we’re wiling to throw queer perversions that lived alongside gay people for so long under the bus—and agree with their public shaming—for a desperate, harmful, and useless need to “ be normal.” | >
> | Some LGBT individuals say they don’t like the word “queer” to describe the community because it implies being “odd” and “different.” My response is, so? The oppression of homophobia and the fear of being persecuted for our sexual and gender identity over the last hundred years engendered innovative and creative ways in defining our relationships, sexuality, and self-expression. Are we willing to throw this out the window for the opportunity to be just like miserable heterosexuals. By buying into heternormative marriage, we sacrifice our “queerness” and marginalize it as something weird that should be rejected. Instead, the sexual and gender traditions of our past have shown us an alternative way to express our sexuality and maintain relationships with the people we love. We should respect and embrace our queerdom, because it affords us the opportunity to do what we’d like instead of what heteronormativity says we should like. It’s a shame we’re willing to throw queer perversions that lived alongside gay people for so long under the bus—and agree with their public shaming—for a desperate, harmful, and useless need to “ be normal.” | | | (998 words) |
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