Alena Gaskins

He/Him’s can be Lesbians?

LGBTQ+ community, or “the queers”, “the alphabet people”, and many other names have been used to describe our community. We tend to have this want to be all inclusive. This drive to be completely open to everyone, and as someone that’s been labeled a “conservative queer”, perhaps I’m sitting with the older crowd with some topics but there is a large amount of toxicity in the community and I think we have all seen it at one point or another. Excusing physical boundaries because “we’re all gay here anyway”, or rampant biphobia, and even the appropriation of race related cultural identifiers as well as the “MAPs” and “transtrenders” that steal from the credibility of the community for twisted benefit. So I suppose maybe I’m already old in gay years but I think we need to talk about something that’s been discussed time and time again.