G L B T Find Out What It Means To Me
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transSo I'm new here and had a blog post I just made on my LJ and wanted to get it around to as many other Queer places as I could so I joined here. If you like and or agree please feel free to repost elsewhere but please give me the credit I deserve. Thanks...
Alright boys and girls this one has been a little bit coming but I've been reading too many blogs where it's mentioned and I want to weigh in even if I've got next to no audience...
GLBT four letters those of us in the community hear a lot and probably think about too. I'm a transsexual part of the T in those four little letters which in some places become many more letter with many more meanings. The question I want to ask you is are we a letter or a community? I am no more just a transsexual than I am many of the other things that make up who I am. As far as I consider the larger community that that one aspect of myself makes me I call myself and those others in that group Queer. It's one word it means something and it helps to bring us all together into one group not four or more individual groups fighting for a common cause but ONE single group that stands up for one another and fights as one. A great person once said "United we stand divided we fall." Right now if you ask me We are not standing united and therefore we fall to the attacks of those who stand united against us.
I know there are people who do not like the word queer because of the way it has been used against them as a slur. You know there are communities out there who have taken slurs and taken the power back of those words and used them for themselves. In the 90's the slogan "We're Queer! We're here! Get used to it!" was used rather effectively we need to continue that, we need to take our word back and use it. If you don't like it then give me another better SINGLE word to use instead. I hope others will join me in rejecting being a letter and instead being a community.
There's my two cents take it or leave it.
Alright boys and girls this one has been a little bit coming but I've been reading too many blogs where it's mentioned and I want to weigh in even if I've got next to no audience...
GLBT four letters those of us in the community hear a lot and probably think about too. I'm a transsexual part of the T in those four little letters which in some places become many more letter with many more meanings. The question I want to ask you is are we a letter or a community? I am no more just a transsexual than I am many of the other things that make up who I am. As far as I consider the larger community that that one aspect of myself makes me I call myself and those others in that group Queer. It's one word it means something and it helps to bring us all together into one group not four or more individual groups fighting for a common cause but ONE single group that stands up for one another and fights as one. A great person once said "United we stand divided we fall." Right now if you ask me We are not standing united and therefore we fall to the attacks of those who stand united against us.
I know there are people who do not like the word queer because of the way it has been used against them as a slur. You know there are communities out there who have taken slurs and taken the power back of those words and used them for themselves. In the 90's the slogan "We're Queer! We're here! Get used to it!" was used rather effectively we need to continue that, we need to take our word back and use it. If you don't like it then give me another better SINGLE word to use instead. I hope others will join me in rejecting being a letter and instead being a community.
There's my two cents take it or leave it.