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| meaning = Lavender: mixture of pink (female) and blue (male); White: gender neutral or agender; Dark green: inverse of | | meaning = Lavender: mixture of pink (female) and blue (male); White: gender neutral or agender; Dark green: inverse of lavender, meaning the third gender | ||
| related = [[Nonbinary]] | | related = [[Nonbinary]] | ||
| umbrella = [[Transgender]] | | umbrella = [[Transgender]] | ||
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Genderqueer Visibility Day is observed annually on April 25th.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/westtnlgbtq/posts/april-25th-is-genderqueer-visibility-day-this-is-an-umbrella-term-so-however-you/548419837471298/|title=April 25th is Genderqueer Visibility Day! This is an umbrella term, so however you identify, we hope you have a great day! |author=West Tennessee LGBTQ+ Support |date=25 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/ask_educator/p/Crd5TgzB_Ca/ |title=Today is Genderqueer Visibility Day! |author=Jess (@ask_educator) |date=25 April 2023}}</ref> | Genderqueer Visibility Day is observed annually on April 25th.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/westtnlgbtq/posts/april-25th-is-genderqueer-visibility-day-this-is-an-umbrella-term-so-however-you/548419837471298/|title=April 25th is Genderqueer Visibility Day! This is an umbrella term, so however you identify, we hope you have a great day! |author=West Tennessee LGBTQ+ Support |date=25 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/ask_educator/p/Crd5TgzB_Ca/ |title=Today is Genderqueer Visibility Day! |author=Jess (@ask_educator) |date=25 April 2023}}</ref> | ||
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By 1999/2000, online communities such as the [[Sphere mailing list]] were using the term genderqueer as an umbrella to unite a number of [[nonbinary]] gender identities and identifications that are now thought of as under the nonbinary umbrella. | By 1999/2000, online communities such as the [[Sphere mailing list]] were using the term genderqueer as an umbrella to unite a number of [[nonbinary]] gender identities and identifications that are now thought of as under the nonbinary umbrella. An example of this use of the word appears on the "Genderqueer Links" page of a personal website from 2002:<ref>"Genderqueer Links." ''Footnotes: where hypertext runs free.'' Archived from the original December https://web.archive.org/web/20021219060324/http://willow.dyndns.org/footnotes/genderqueerlinks.html</ref> <blockquote>Worthwhile websites by and about third-, bi-, poly-, inter-, other-, un- and non-gendered people. </blockquote> | ||
Around 2002, a college student created genderqueers.com as an educational resource and "artistic, emotional, intellectual, and social outlet" for genderqueer people. They hosted an FAQ, a compilation of links to gender variance-related sites, a library of writing by genderqueer people, profiles of gender variant people, and a peer support forum.<ref>"Writing". Genderqueers.com. Archived from the original June 19 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20030609030144/http://genderqueers.com/writing/</ref><ref>"Links." Genderqueers.com. Archived from the original October 17 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20021017092718/http://genderqueers.com/links.html</ref><ref>"Profiles". Genderqueers.com. Archived from the original June 09 2003. | |||
<nowiki>https://web.archive.org/web/20030609030122/http://genderqueers.com/profiles/</nowiki></ref><ref>Genderqueers Forum. Archived August 5 https://web.archive.org/web/20020805094056/http://www.genderqueers.com/yabb/YaBB.cgi</ref> Per the FAQ:<ref>"FAQ". Genderqueers.com. Archived from the original October 17 2002. <nowiki>https://web.archive.org/web/20021017092126/http://genderqueers.com:80/faq.html</nowiki></ref><blockquote>'''What does the term "genderqueer" actually mean?''' | |||
The term "genderqueer" is a relatively new term in gender theory and identity, only becoming popular within the last couple of years. Basically when used as an identity, genderqueer means that person's gender is not contained within the traditional gender binary -- this means that they might identify as transgendered, transsexual, [[Agender|non-gendered]], [[Polygender|poly-gendered]]...the list is infinite. Genderqueer is to the male/female gender binary (or genderstraight) as being queer is to being straight -- the term queer encompasses anything that is outside the "norm." But, as should be remembered with all identities, it is up to the person to decide what it actually means, and the term genderqueer's definition is unique for every person who uses it to describe themselves.</blockquote>Also in 2002, a genderqueer [[Livejournal]] community appeared, using a similarly broad definition:<ref name=":0">"Profile". Genderqueer Livejournal community. https://genderqueer.livejournal.com/profile/</ref><blockquote>This community is for those of us who don't feel we fit the binary gender system in use by most of society. Ungendered, many gendered, a gender other than the one society thinks you should be? Do you express your gender(s) in nontraditional ways? You just might fit in here!</blockquote>As of 2024, the community had 2,036 members and 4,030 journal entries; the last post was in January 2017.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
In the 2000s, genderqueer developed as a standalone identity with particular (sub)cultural expectations and connotations, while the tendency to identify particular experiences under its umbrella seemed to diminish. In a 2005 [[Zines|zine,]] Rocko Bulldagger critiqued the expectations that genderqueer identity acquired in this period, observing that people in genderqueer scenes were more concerned with constructing an identity that "reject[ed] M/F" than including a wider range of people who transgressed or engaged consciously with gender. She criticized the scene's increasing unfriendliness to people outside a narrow range of embodiments and expressions. Increasingly, "genderqueer" meant white, young, female-assigned and masculine people who did not use she/her, adhered to specific fashion trends, and had not passed certain milestones in medical transition.<ref>Bulldagger, Rocko. "The End of Genderqueer". From ''Bleach Blonde Bimbos'', vol. 2. 2005. New York City, USA. Accessed via Queer Zine Archive Project on October 22 2024. <nowiki>https://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/112</nowiki></ref> However, both uses are still visible in different online and in person communities. | |||
In the 2010s, a group called [[Genderqueer Chicago]] held weekly in-person discussion groups, hosted events, and maintained a community blog. The group was officially inclusive of anyone interested in discussing gender.<ref>"About". ''Genderqueer Chicago''. Archived October 20 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101020094010/http://genderqueerchicago.blogspot.com/p/about.html</ref> | |||
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Genderqueer comes with the anti-assimilationist political connotations of [[queer]], a reclaimed slur word that has strong associations within and without the LGBT community as well as a countercultural sexuality movement that sets itself apart from the mainstream [[LGBT]] community. (Note that the word "queer" is still actively used as a pejorative and hate speech in many regions.) As such genderqueer implies a similar counterculture, setting itself apart from mainstream nonbinary and [[transgender]] discourse. Many genderqueer people also consider themselves to be queer and there is a strong trend of rejecting the gender binary and normative [[gender roles]] | Genderqueer comes with the anti-assimilationist political connotations of [[queer]], a reclaimed slur word that has strong associations within and without the LGBT community as well as a countercultural sexuality movement that sets itself apart from the mainstream [[LGBT]] community. (Note that the word "queer" is still actively used as a pejorative and hate speech in many regions.) As such genderqueer implies a similar counterculture, setting itself apart from mainstream nonbinary and [[transgender]] discourse. Many genderqueer people also consider themselves to be queer and there is a strong trend of rejecting the gender binary and normative [[gender roles]] within the Queer Movement as a whole. | ||
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* drag performer [[Violet Chachki]] | * drag performer [[Violet Chachki]] | ||
* internet personality [[Jeffrey Marsh]] | * internet personality [[Jeffrey Marsh]] | ||
* comedian Hannah Gadsby | |||
* cartoonist and author [[Maia Kobabe]] | |||
* author and activist [[Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore]] | |||
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