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'''Andrea Gibson''' ( | {{Infobox person | ||
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| date_birth = August 13, 1975 | |||
| place_birth = Calais, Maine | |||
| date_death = July 14, 2025 | |||
| nationality = American | |||
| pronouns = [[they/them]] | |||
| gender = [[genderqueer]] | |||
| occupation = poet | |||
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'''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 | Gibson was [[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 used [[singular they]] pronouns, and sometimes used 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> | ||
Before learning the word "genderqueer" in the mid-2000s, Gibson had identified as [[bisexual]], then as [[gay]], then as a [[butch]] [[dyke]], although "I never really felt that butch."<ref name="Groat">{{Cite web |title=Poet Andrea Gibson Shares How They Learned About Their Gender Identity Through Writing |last=Groat |first=Kylie |work=Seventeen |date=1 May 2018 |access-date=30 April 2020 |url= https://www.seventeen.com/life/a20102112/andrea-gibson-interview-on-poetry/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220232718/https://www.seventeen.com/life/a20102112/andrea-gibson-interview-on-poetry/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="Gibson2017">{{Cite web |title=Andrea Gibson: 'Genderqueer is a Constant Coming Out' |last=Gibson |first=Andrea |work=out.com |date=11 October 2017 |access-date=30 April 2020 |url= https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2017/10/11/andrea-gibson-genderqueer-constant-coming-out|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227195036/https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2017/10/11/andrea-gibson-genderqueer-constant-coming-out |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | |||
Gibson passed away July 14, 2025 of ovarian cancer.<ref>https://denvergazette.com/arts-entertainment/wife-reveals-poet-laureate-andrea-gibsons-last-words/article_bcda83f8-205d-4320-bf9f-c737709d631c.html</ref> | |||
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[[Category: Activists]] | [[Category:Activists]] | ||
[[Category: Genderqueer people]] | [[Category:Genderqueer people]] | ||
[[Category: Nonbinary people]] | [[Category:Nonbinary people]] | ||
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