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| date_birth=August 13, 1975 | | date_birth = August 13, 1975 | ||
| place_birth=Calais, Maine | | place_birth = Calais, Maine | ||
| nationality=American | | date_death = July 14, 2025 | ||
| pronouns=[[they/them]] | | nationality = American | ||
| gender=[[genderqueer]] | | pronouns = [[they/them]] | ||
| occupation=poet | | gender = [[genderqueer]] | ||
| known_for= | | occupation = poet | ||
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'''Andrea Gibson''' ( | '''Andrea Gibson''' (August 13, 1975 – July 14, 2025) was an American poet and activist from Calais, Maine, who has lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1999. Their poetry focuses on gender norms, politics, social reform, and the struggles LGBTQ people face in today's society. | ||
Gibson is [[queer]] and [[genderqueer]], and said in a 2015 interview "I've never in my life really felt like a woman and I've certainly never felt like a man. I look at gender on a spectrum and I feel somewhere on that spectrum that's not landing on either side of that." <ref name="Notaro">{{Cite web |title=The Pioneering Poet |last=Notaro |first=Tig |work=Interview Magazine |date=22 April 2015 |access-date=8 April 2020 |url= https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/andrea-gibson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128061232/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/andrea-gibson |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> They use [[singular they]] pronouns, and sometimes use the name "Andrew" instead of "Andrea".<ref name="AMA">{{Cite web |title=r/IAmA - Comments on "I am Andrea Gibson, a queer touring poet with extreme stage fright. AMA!" |author= |work=reddit |date=10 August 2014 |access-date=8 April 2020 |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2d60ih/i_am_andrea_gibson_a_queer_touring_poet_with/cjmevgj/?context=8&depth=9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719060005/https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2d60ih/comment/cjmevgj/?context=8&depth=9 |archive-date=19 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> | Gibson is [[queer]] and [[genderqueer]], and said in a 2015 interview "I've never in my life really felt like a woman and I've certainly never felt like a man. I look at gender on a spectrum and I feel somewhere on that spectrum that's not landing on either side of that." <ref name="Notaro">{{Cite web |title=The Pioneering Poet |last=Notaro |first=Tig |work=Interview Magazine |date=22 April 2015 |access-date=8 April 2020 |url= https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/andrea-gibson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128061232/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/andrea-gibson |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> They use [[singular they]] pronouns, and sometimes use the name "Andrew" instead of "Andrea".<ref name="AMA">{{Cite web |title=r/IAmA - Comments on "I am Andrea Gibson, a queer touring poet with extreme stage fright. AMA!" |author= |work=reddit |date=10 August 2014 |access-date=8 April 2020 |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2d60ih/i_am_andrea_gibson_a_queer_touring_poet_with/cjmevgj/?context=8&depth=9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719060005/https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2d60ih/comment/cjmevgj/?context=8&depth=9 |archive-date=19 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> | ||