It's pretty fascinating, the taxonomy of identifiers within the queer community. But it's also HUGE. I have a friend who explores the "femme"/"butch" dynamic in her theater troupe but also socially, and I couldn't list even half the terms she's told me about. She used to get anti-bisexual flak from the gay community, too, when we were in college together.
I'm not one for labels, personally. They resonate with exclusivity ("I'm this and you're that."). I just use "gay" for everything.
"Cisgendered" is a term I only recently learned, in the past couple months. Has it been around longer than that? I'm unhip.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2010-06-02 09:19 pm (UTC)I'm not one for labels, personally. They resonate with exclusivity ("I'm this and you're that."). I just use "gay" for everything.
"Cisgendered" is a term I only recently learned, in the past couple months. Has it been around longer than that? I'm unhip.