Are you arrow-straight, and therefore clueless concerning the queer experience? Remedies are at the ready. As an example, consider a California college's quirky compendium.
At the University of Redlands, employees and enrollees are encouraged to pursue a self-education. Such schooling centers on the following folx with frisky boat-floats:
- Men driven to have sex with men
- Women driven to have sex with women
- Men driven to have sex with men and also women
- Women driven to have sex with women and also men
Wholly apart from attraction, one should educate oneself in the area of self-image -- i.e., knowing the ins and outs of these communities:
- Ovary owners who identify as men
- People with penises who identity as women
- Males and females who, for some other reason, fancy themselves pelvically peculiar
The above bunches, as you're aware, are repped by the initialism "LGBTQ." Via Redlands.edu, the school pledges itself to PRIDE:
LGBTQ programs at the University of Redlands provide a holistic environment for LGBTQ students, staff and faculty and allies to develop an inclusive community. ... We acknowledge the importance of understanding the intersections of race, class, gender, disability and other identities in developing a holistic concept of sexual identity.
Instruction's on tap -- along with the fire-hot fad of wrongly pluralizing words:
Through speakers, trainings and student events, we provide a vibrant atmosphere for discussion on issues affecting the LGBTQ community on the international, national, local and campus levels.
Yes, international -- so if you're keen on conversing about female bag-bearing Bolivians boasting a penchant for pancaking with both blokes and bleeders, Redlands U is stoked to kindly accommodate.
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The school's Pride Center provides an array of programs; a few of its organizations and events:
- Safe Space Allies
- National Coming Out Week
- World AIDS Day
- National Day of Silence
- Transgender Day of Remembrance
- Lavender Recognition Ceremony
For individuals outside the LGBTQ cadre, a wealth of information awaits. If you ache to dig deep into gay/bisexual sex, probe women-identifying people with prostates, or veer into vaginally-vented men, Redlands directs you to its ultimate online reference: the Queer Dictionary.
An introduction, adorned with more mystifying S-wordses:
The language around LGBTQIA2S+ identity and topics continues to evolve as culture shifts, understandings of gender and sexuality evolve, and more terminology is constructed that more accurately describes the LBGTQIA2S+ experience.
If you're aroused in any way by any crotch or cranny -- or if you see yourself as both man and woman, neither, or neither and additionally both -- the dictionary has you down pat. From its catalog of concepts:
- Allosexual - A sexual orientation generally characterized by feeling sexual attraction to others.
- Androgyne - A person with a gender that is both masculine and feminine or in between masculine and feminine. Commonly considered a nonbinary gender identity.
- BlaQ/BlaQueer - Folks of Black/African descent and/or from the African diaspora who recognize their queerness/ LGBTQIA2S+ identity as a salient identity attached to their Blackness and vice versa.
- Gender Outlaw - A person who refuses to be defined by conventional definitions of male and female.
- Gynesexual/Gynephilic - Pronounced “guy-nuh-seks-shu-uhl”/”guy-nuh-feel-lic." Attracted to woman, females, and/or femininity.
- Homosexual/Homosexuality - A term that describes a sexual orientation in which a person feels physically and emotionally attracted to people of the same gender.
- MLM (Men-who-love-men) - An abbreviation for men who love men, which includes gay men as well as men who are attracted to men and masculine presenting people.
- MSM (Men-who-have-sex-with-men) - “Men who have sex with men” is used to distinguish sexual behaviors from sexual identities (e.g., because a man is straight, it doesn’t mean he’s not having sex with men). Often used in the field of HIV/Aids education, prevention, and treatment.
- Neutrois - A nonbinary gender identity that falls under the transgender umbrella. There is no one definition of neutrois since each person that self-identifies as such experiences their gender differently. The most common parallels to describe neutrois are: Neutral-gender, Null-gender, Neither male nor female, Genderless and/or Agender.
- Omnigender - Possessing all genders. The term is used specifically to refute the concept of only two genders.
- QTPOC (Queer Trans People of Color) - QTPOC is an acronym that specifically describes “Queer Trans People of Color." This acronym is often used to center Black and Brown Queer and Trans folks and experience.
- Same Gender Loving - A term used by some Black and people of African descent who love, date, have attraction to people of the same gender. Coined by activist Cleo Manago.
- Skoliosexual - Attraction to genderqueer and trans people.
- Two Spirit (2S) - An umbrella term encompassing gender in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island (also referred to as the United States). Two Spirit people often serve integral and important roles in their communities, such as leaders and healers. 2S may refer to an embodiment of masculinity and femininity but this is not the only significance of the term. ... Two Spirit is...reserved for those who identify as Indigenous/Native American. Although the term itself became more commonly used around 1990, two spirit people have existed for centuries.
- Womxn/Womyn - Some womxn spell the word with an “x” or “y" as a form of empowerment to move away from the perceived sexism in the “traditional” spelling of women. These terms were both constructed by and for women of color.
So conceivably, you're a cutiepie QTPOC who's a male homosexual; or perhaps -- by complete contrast -- you're a BlaQ man who likes to have sex with men; or perchance you're a gang of guys, a gaggle of girls, and an assortment of all other things. Whatever your composition, you're covered.
Having said that, every one of the Queer Dictionary's 77 entries may be erroneous:
The definitions provided...are not universal. ... [T]hey may vary from person to person.
As for the term "Two Spirit," it didn't just become "more commonly used" at the end of the last century. It was wholly coined by Myra Laramee at the 1990 Third Annual Inter-tribal Native American, First Nations, Gay and Lesbian American Conference in Winnipeg. How we know "Two Spirit people have existed for centuries" seems unclear. Regardless, the label reportedly came to Myra in a dream.
And for boring normies who dream of understanding the sexually sophisticated, a University of Redlands dictionary is here and it's queer. Not long ago, colleges concentrated on academics. Career skills, critical thinking, and a mastery of conventional subjects were sumptuously served. These days, it's apparently more paramount that graduates be primed for sexual and societal revolution. It's a new era, with everyone's allosexuality at the fore. A degree program spans only four or five years; students may need all that time to figure out whether they're womyn. They might be at least mainly myn -- though that term hasn't yet made the dictionary. Eventually, perhaps it will. Meanwhile, let's all get brushed up on gynephilic androgynes and null-gender, skoliosexual outlaws.
-ALEX
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