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Title: Is the notion of a queer community a fairytale?
Post by: Natasha on July 13, 2008, 07:04:34 PM
Is the notion of a queer community a fairytale?

Link (http://thehostess.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/is-the-notion-of-a-queer-community-a-fairytale/)
7/13/2008

We often hear the terms "Gay community" or "LGBT community" to refer to sexual and gender minorities who have banded together under an umbrella term. Is there really such a community? The notion of whether we are a community is subject to debate in Queer theory circles.
Title: Re: Is the notion of a queer community a fairytale?
Post by: Elwood on July 13, 2008, 07:18:18 PM
I'm not sure. But I am in a LGBTQQI club... and boy, they're like my other family.
Title: Re: Is the notion of a queer community a fairytale?
Post by: tekla on July 14, 2008, 12:29:40 AM
In sociology there are over 100 differing ways of defining 'community' so depending on how you use the word, sure.