The Right Way To Be LGB Or T?

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Autumn Sandeen
8/25/09

Is there a right way to be gay? A right way to be lesbian or bisexual? By that I mean, are there universal constructs that many in these subcommunities of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community embrace as models for the entireties of their subcommunities?

Well, I'm not as immersed in the gay subcommunity as perhaps I should be to know what the gay "universal" constructs are, but I am aware of some "universal" models in the lesbian and bisexual subcommunities.

For example, in the lesbian subcommunity, there's some typing in play, with labels like lipstick lesbian, Chapstick lesbian, femme, fierce femme, blue jean femme, pillow queen, butch, soft butch, stone butch, dyke, andro-dyke, sporty dyke, power dyke, bulldyke, diesel dyke...One Way Signwe could go on and on here with the lesbian labels. Per a certain orthodoxy of being lebian, it seems you must be able to be subcategorized as a recognized subtype of lesbian.

Is there a right way to be Lesbian, Gay, bi, Trans, Andro, strait, human, breathing ?   Yes!

Your way!



Any who would tell you different is silly. Stay away from them..