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≠ STORY: ANKA RADAKOVICH
According to a recent Gallup poll, one in six people, or 16% of those in
Generation Z (born between 1997-2002), identify themselves as something
other than heterosexual.
Among the 18-23-year-old Z’s, 72% of them identified as bisexual. Among
millennials—24-40-year-olds born between 1981-1996—9.1% identify as LGBT,
with half saying they are bisexual. Gen X and Baby Boomers are less so, with
the study of 15,000 people finding that 5.6% of Americans identify as LGBT.
Looks like the kids are saying “We’re here, we’re queer, get over it.”
Now that everyone is non-binary, non-gender conforming, gay, bi, queer,
trans, and asexual, what are the proper names to call them? One finding from
the Gallup poll was that “3.3% of respondents prefer another non-heterosexual
preference or term to describe their sexual orientation, such as queer, or “same-
gender-loving.”
In the late 1990’s, I used to go to nightclubs in New York City with my gay
club kid friends who called me a “fag hag,” which was considered a term of
affection back then. Now the term would be considered offensive on a number
of political levels. I also would go to the Pyramid Club in the East Village, where
there were performers who proudly referred to themselves as “Fierce Trannies.”
It was a fun place for alternative performance art, including drag, and where I
first saw Nirvana play, and watched Ru Paul’s early drag act.
The more politically correct terms now are trans, male to female/MTF, female to
male/FTM. Or T-girls, as in the Gender X title Watching My Husband Bang a TS.
I asked FTM porn star Buck Angel what he calls himself and he told me he is
a “man with a vagina.” I like the word “Mangina,” but it hasn’t been established
yet if the word is offensive.
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