terça-feira, fevereiro 10, 2004

Novo léxico LGBT

Com o universo do género e da identidade sexual em rápida expansão, existe uma cultura jovem gay emergente; o resultado é que o léxico gay explodiu, com novas palvras e frases que catalogam todas as formas concebíveis de identidade e orientação sexual. A coisa fica inglês, porque não sei traduzir a esmagadora maioria dos termos....

Someone who is "genderqueer," for example, views the gender options as more than just male and female or doesn't fit into the binary male-female system. A "trannydyke" is a transgender person (whose gender is different than the one assigned at birth) attracted to people with a more feminine gender, while a "pansexual" is attracted to people of multiple genders. A "boi" describes a boyish gay guy or a biological female with a male presentation; and "heteroflexible" refers to a straight person with a queer mind-set.

The list of terms -- which have hotly contested definitions -- goes on: "FTM" for female to male, "MTF" for male to female, "boydyke", "trannyboy", "trannyfag", "multigendered", "polygendered", "queerboi", "transboi", "transguy", "transman", "half-dyke", "bi-dyke", "stud", "stem", "trisexual", "omnisexual", and "multisexual".

Definitions of many words in the gay lexicon are hotly contested. Here is a sample:

Genderqueer: Someone who views the gender options as more than just male and female or who doesn't fit into the binary male-female system.

Transgender: An umbrella term for transgression of the binary gender system. May include surgical, hormonal or nonhormonal changes that result in a gender identity different from the one assigned at birth.

Pansexual: Someone attracted to people of multiple genders.

Trannydyke: A transgender person attracted to people with a more feminine gender.

Trannyfag: A transgender person attracted to people with a more masculine gender.

Boi: A boyish gay guy or a biological female with a boyish presentation.

Heteroflexible: A straight person with a queer mind-set.

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