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Old 06-14-2012, 06:10 PM   #1
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Kinda surprised it hadn't happened earlier, but a positive change nonetheless.

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EDMONTON - The province has rewritten controversial billing codes that treated sexual minorities as people with mental disorders akin to bestiality and pedophilia.

After more than 15 years of pressure from advocacy groups, the Progressive Conservatives have replaced the offending section with modern language that says gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer Albertan’s are not suffering from a mental illness.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Ho...983/story.html
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Old 06-14-2012, 06:31 PM   #2
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Old 06-14-2012, 06:34 PM   #3
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Honest question... What does queer mean outside of gay,lesbian, bisexual or transgendered? Is there some other meaning of queer?
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Honest question... What does queer mean outside of gay,lesbian, bisexual or transgendered? Is there some other meaning of queer?
What a queer question. You're lucky you aren't mentally ill anymore.
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Old 06-14-2012, 06:43 PM   #6
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Actually, just looked up the wikipedia entry and it has an interesting discussion. If the government really did include queer in the mix, they may be setting themselves up for more than they realize, or the really have become the PROGRESSIVE conservatives. I don't want to quote the whole article, but it's not all that long. A couple of snippets:

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In the context of Western identity politics the term also acts as a label setting queer-identifying people apart from discourse, ideologies, and lifestyles that typify mainstream LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual) communities as being oppressive or assimilationist.
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Inclusivity and scope

The range of what "queer" includes varies. In addition to referring to LGBT-identifying people, it can also encompass: pansexual, pomosexual, intersexual, genderqueer, asexual and autosexual people, and even gender normative heterosexuals whose sexual orientations or activities place them outside the heterosexual-defined mainstream, e.g., BDSM practitioners, or polyamorous persons.

For some queer-identified people, part of the point of the term "queer" is that it simultaneously builds up and tears down boundaries of identity. For instance, among genderqueer people, who do not solidly identify with one particular gender, once solid gender roles have been torn down, it becomes difficult to situate sexual identity. For some people, the non-specificity of the term is liberating. Queerness becomes a way to simultaneously make a political move against heteronormativity while simultaneously refusing to engage in traditional essentialist identity politics.[8]
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I think queer is sorta like an all encompassing term for the lgbt community. People use it if lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered doesn't adequately describe them.

I'm just going by memory on a class I took in University one time so I may be off.

(poster above me did a better job describing it)
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Well that's good to know I'm not nuts....


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I think they should go ahead and classify homophobia as a "mental illness" if it isn't already.
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Kind of off topic, I really like the term LGBT.

Makes it sound like some fantastic sandwich or something.
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I think they should go ahead and classify homophobia as a "mental illness" if it isn't already.


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That's a perfectly logical next step.
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Kind of off topic, I really like the term LGBT.

Makes it sound like some fantastic sandwich or something.
That's the GBLT.
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Kind of off topic, I really like the term LGBT.

Makes it sound like some fantastic sandwich or something.
If done right...
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I think they should go ahead and classify religious belief as a "mental illness" if it isn't already.
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