Queer: Part Of The LGBT Movement

When you think of the term “queer” people often think of LGBTQ people, especially gay people but in reality is more than that. Being queer doesn’t just mean being part of the LGBTQ movement, it means much more than that. For one, for many people in the LGBTQ community, it means an identity and an umbrella term, being militant. For others, it can mean an act, a sexual act and what I’m really going to emphasize in this essay is the ideology/politics in the term “queer.” I will also be looking at how transgender studies was born out of other gender studies and how it is queer’s “evil twin”
Queerness and politics can be tied together as a form of resistance and survival for a lot of queers “queer would come to denote not only an emerging politics …show more content…
Transgender like butches have that form of intersectionality, there’s transwomen, trans-men, gay, bisexual transgenders, transgenders of different class, race, religion etc. Like Susan Stryker stated “it has the same parentage but willfully disrupts the privileged family narratives that favor sexual identity labels” which makes it harder for transgender people to identify who they are when it comes to being out and helping economically, being able to get a job, they are often labeled for what gender they were born as but not as how they identify as. When queer politics gets brought up, Cohen’s idea of normative heterosexuality afflict people in distinctive ways across different groups. In the butches, there’s an attack, which is all based on the kind of deviating of the norm of who you are suppose to be sexually attracted to but there’s this point in the book “Stone Butch Blues” where you see how heteronormativity affects class, which are linked to the kind of work a butch can get. Class becomes a way to look at things because how the …show more content…
It gives the opportunity of a possibility alliance with people who are heterosexual and do not have anything to with the butches or anybody else but something that they would have similar would be class. For example, how people struggle to get jobs in factories and the way heterosexuality and masculinity are structured at the person who is needed to be able to support everyone. All of that opens into a possibility of having along instances of other people who were affected by the idea of masculinity but not just the butches. That’s what the author of “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens” Cathy J. Cohen is talking about when she mentions having queer left politics, there a way to start with the understanding of sexual normativity or simply falling outside of heterosexual norms. If you pursue it how it is and how masculinity, femminity, hetersexuality and homosexuality work, they will lead you to these abrupt networks with people who are outside of those hidden identity categories. It gives the likelihood of unity and agreement happening, which for example it can happen in the bar which is a safe space for queer people. The bar serves as a safe haven for people who were thrown outside the

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