Student Magazines '21
Welcome to the LGBTQ+ community! A community where we accept who we claim and the colors are vibrant as ever! The LGBTQ+ community is a very accepting environment, though, sadly it doesn’t earn so much acceptance in return. Many people feel a lack of acceptance for this community for their own reasons, though, we strive to make a difference. Since forever, people have been treated differently for coming out as LGBTQ+, but that’s truly unfair! I personally believe that we are all human, different and special. There should be no problem with this. For future reference, I will be referring to sexualities as both sexualities and orientations. NOTICE: if word links do not work, they can be found in the citations at the end of the magazine and/or at the end of each article. The Main Letters! (LGBT) Plus More! People within this community could be cisgender, which means you are the gender that aligns with what you were assigned at birth, though, many people in this community have chosen a different route. This could work the same with someone not being cisgender but still identifying themselves as heterosexual or straight. Gender is different from what you were assigned when you were born, as that’s usually referred to as birth sex. There are many genders and sexualities to learn about. And I’m here to explain the main ones and the less known ones later. One of the most known sexualities is homosexual, though, depending on the gender, it is referred to as gay or lesbian, but sometimes vincian or sapphic, as a way to separate the two more. (Lesbian couples commonly define themselves as gay, and it’s also used by the whole community, so this would be why). Homosexual is when someone likes the gender that is the same as their own. For instance, a male taking a liking to another male, same thing with females, where a female takes a liking to another female. Though, these terms have another meaning. Such as lesbian could mean non-men liking non-men or vincian could mean non-women liking non-women. Bisexual, pansexual and omnisexual are similar but confused often. Bisexual means that someone takes a liking to two genders or more. Pansexual means they take a liking to people without noticing their gender, which is also known as genderblind, and omnisexual people recognize the gender and sometimes have a preference towards one. (Though, they still like all genders regardless) Moving on, a gender that is known by a lot is known as transgender. Transgender means the person was born at birth in a body that doesn’t align with their gender, so strive to be referred to as the opposite in most cases. For instance, a ftm (female to male) individual is born as a biological female, but doesn’t feel right in their body, so they decide to change things up a bit! The reversed equivalent is mtf. Not all transgender people can or will get surgery to change their body, as it’s their choice and body doesn’t equal gender. Appearance doesn’t equal gender, either. Another common gender is known as, you guessed it, nonbinary or enby. This means that the person doesn't feel like a male or female and has an identity outside of the gender binary. Someone who identifies as another gender, genderfluid, doesn’t feel like they have a fixed gender, so over time their gender identity or expression will change. This type of change might be an identity change but not an expression change or vice versa. There are a lot of genders and sexualities to acknowledge, and even romantic counterparts to some of these, like panromantic or omniromantic, though these are only the main ones! The Pronouns A lot of the people that define themselves as another gender have changed their pronouns or have more pronouns than just he/him or she/her. For instance, a ftm individual will commonly use he/him pronouns once they discover themselves, or a mtf person will commonly use she/her pronouns. People make these choices to align with their gender based on society’s standards and/or what they wish to be referred to as, though, pronouns aren’t always gendered, so you can choose your pronouns based on what you're comfortable with. Normally, someone who identifies themselves as nonbinary or enby will use another type of pronoun known as they/them because it’s what they feel comfortable with, though, again, pronouns aren’t always gendered, and sometimes enby people use more or different pronouns other than they/them. Pronouns sometimes get confusing for people when they come across more. These pronouns are called neopronouns. It’s quite similar to nonbinary or enby, where someone doesn’t feel like they identify in the gender binary, though, neopronouns take the place of they/them. Common neopronouns are xe/xem/xyrs, ze/hir/hirs, ey/em/eir, and fae/faer/faers. Though, a lot of people create their own neopronouns, like magi/magics/magiself. Anyone can use any pronouns as long as they’re comfortable with it. There’s usually terms for people who use specific or different pronouns, such as numpronouns or panpronominal. And there’s even a neopronoun list! These things are super helpful resources. https://neoprns.carrd.co/ Gender Dysphoria/Envy Gender dysphoria and gender envy is common with transgender individuals, though, it can happen to many others, such as enby people. Gender dysphoria is a desire to be rid of anything that could potentially show your biological sex, or a feeling that your physical body conflicts with your gender. Usually it’s a strong desire to be another gender. Gender dysphoria can easily lead to people who experience this getting surgery to remove what makes them uncomfortable. As I said before, this is very common with transgender people because they feel as if the body they’re born in doesn’t really align with how they feel. Gender envy is similar yet different at the same time, as it’s a strong feeling of envy towards how someone else expresses their gender identity. Again, this is common in transgender people. For example, many people call Ranboo, a famous minecraft youtuber and twitch streamer “gender man” since a lot of people feel gender envy towards him and how he presents himself to the general public. Gender envy, as I said, is common in transgender people, though, can occur to anyone else. Sometimes gender envy is described as pain to look at another’s fortune, whilst others just see it as striving to present themselves as the person they feel envy towards. Gender dysphoria is overall distress over one’s body while gender envy is longing to have something the people they feel envy for have, in this case, presentation. So, there is a clear difference between these two. Ace Spectrum Who would know there’s a whole spectrum for genders and sexualities? I’m here to talk about that spectrum, the ace spectrum! First, let's talk about the Split Attraction Model, which is also known as SAM. This was first used for asexual and aromantic indivisuals to better explain their identities. This splits sexual and romantic attraction into seperate things. For every sexual orientation, there will also be a romantic orientation. The most popular within this spectrum is asexual. This is simple, as it’s someone who doesn’t experience sexual attraction. It’s suggested to look more up about it, since it’s experienced in different ways by different people. Aromanticism would be the romantic orientation of asexual. People within this category are usually referred to as aromantic. Aromantics don’t feel any romantic attraction to anyone and their relationships usually stay platonic, though they can get into romantic relationships for their own reasons. There’s much more sexualities having to do with the aspec, such as aroace, which is a lack of sexual and romantic attraction, or acespike, with sudden spikes of sexual attraction. There’s a clear difference between ace-spec identities and ace-spec microlabels. Microlabels are basically labels that can not stand alone and must stick together with another ace-spec label. Some common ace-spec microlabels are apothisexual, aegosexual, caedsexual, etc. And of course, they have their romantic counterparts. To learn more about the ace spectrum, I suggest visiting the linked site here since it holds a lot of information about this spectrum. I also would like to see you view this site, since it also has a lot of pages for this stuff. https://www.glaad.org/amp/ace-guide-finding-your-community https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Asexual_Spectrum Supporters and More. I covered only a few of the many orientations and genders. There is still plenty, plenty more to discover in this wonderful community! I’ve decided that I won’t cover the rest, and instead let you guys find out more by yourselves, since even I know so much. You don’t have to be a part of the LGBTQ+ community to support, people like this are usually referred to as allies or straight supporters. We are very grateful for the support! Plus, you don’t have to exactly know your sexuality to join the community, we refer to these folks as questioning! When you’re questioning your sexuality and such. It’s fine, take all the time you need! No one’s rushing you, though, I understand if you can’t wait to join! Here are some other websites to try reading. Such as an editorial! And a financial article. https://issues.cune.edu/the-lgbt-disputes-teaching-and-practice-in-the-church-2/editorial-lgbtq-thoughts/ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lgbtq-people-have-a-worse-financial-outlook-than-their-straight-counterparts-2019-02-26 Nonbinary: An Umbrella Term What if I were to tell you the nonbinary I talked about earlier is only an umbrella term for many other gender identities? An individual can still refer to themselves as nonbinary, though, there’s many other identities involved. Let's start off with another umbrella term: demigender. To be demigender is to have a partial identification with a gender identity. Some of the most popular in this term are demiboys and demigirls, who partially identify as a boy/girl. People who are a demigirl or demiboy can identify as transgender or cisgender. Aporagender is like having a gender that is different from male, female, or any mix of the two. It is known as an alternative to Aliagender. Neutrois is rather similar as it describes someone not having a gender that’s exclusively male or female while Maverique emphasizes an inner experience of gender. This may have been mentioned, or is mentioned later on, though, genderfluid is also a nonbinary identity. A similar term would be genderflux. Remember that most of these gender identities may be similar, though, they’re all different! You can find more about these gender identities here. https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Gender_Wiki Nonbinary: Attractions Terms get confusing, especially for people like enbies. You might ask, “What do you call yourself if you’re a nonbinary that’s only attracted to women?” Let me introduce you to the term trixic, also known as orbisian. These two terms can be used by anyone under the nonbinary umbrella. The opposite of this, nonbinary people attracted to men exclusively, is known as toric, or quadrisian. There’s also tiric, which is the non-binary attraction to both men and women. Other words to check out are lunaric, marsic, venusic, neptunic, uranic, saturnic, viramoric, feminamoric, and terraric. Brownitian and carnelian are just terms that describe a nonbinary attraction to all, but an exclusive attraction to one gender. Brownitian for nblw and nblnb and carnelian for nblm and nblnb. Trixic and toric are both terms separated from nonbinary lesbians, vincians, etc. WLW, MLM, NBLNB, and more? Welcome! It gets more confusing. If you haven’t already gotten the hang of this or are still processing the information I gave you, these abbreviations are short for some attractions. WLW would stand for woman love woman, whilst MLM stands for man love man. NBLNB stands for non-binary love non-binary, but I assure you, there’s many other variations of these labels, such as NBLW. And of course, as usual, there are flags and separate labels for these terms. And guess who is here to tell you about them? Me. Let’s start with WLW, which is under the label sapphic. The name sapphic originates from a Greek poet named Sappho, who was born on Lesbos. Familiar? That’s what the term lesbian was named after! The counterpart to sapphic is achillean, which is the label for MLM. The name achillean derives from a Greek hero named Achilles, who had been in a romantic relationship with a man named Patroclus. Next up, NBLNB, under the term enbian. The term is often used to describe a relationship between two non-binary people. Enbian is based on the word enby. Sorry, no greek mythology for you! This doesn’t too much relate to attractions, well, yes it does, but here’s another term: diamoric. Diamoric basically explains a non-binary person’s orientation. Though, it’s also an umbrella term to describe non-binary attractions Straight- or- Curvy From the Stars! As if you thought all the planet originated enby names weren’t galactic enough, there’s just a bit more to explore. Such as astrogender, when your gender changes depending on the time of day or certain galactic pattern, such as a new moon! Or the whole concept about stellarians that we need to get into, since it has so much to learn about! Aporagender and stellarian are confused some, but there’s one key difference: alignment. Aporagender are not connected when it comes to gender, though, stellarians feel unaligned yet aligned to gender at the same time, but it’s felt on a different plane almost. A similar term is nebularian, which is a combination between stellarian and lunarian, in which a person can be fluid between two genders or both/many at the same time. And then finally, lunarian. Which refers to people who are feminine-aligned. Which means someone is partially a woman, someone who has a connection to womanhood without being one, someone who has a gender similar to woman, and more. World of Xenogenders! Whole new type of gender! Welcome to the life of a xenogender. Xenogender is decently different from the other genders you see from time to time, as it’s connected to different things. It can’t be fully described by the terms masculine, feminine, androgyny, etc. Instead, it is described by relations to things that don’t really have anything to do with gender. There are many types of xenogenders and different categories to go along with it, such as aesthetigenders, noungenders, neurogenders, mutogenders, kingenders or nominalgenders. An example of a xenogender is batgender, a gender that focuses on the concept of bats and/or vampires, while antagogender focuses on the concept of being a villain. There is a similar aesthetigender to this called antagender, where one feels connected to villains and antagonists. There’s many types of xenogenders, and the types are all explained differently. Noungenders are usually described by objects, or nouns. These are only one of the types, and as mentioned, there are multiple others to discover. Coric Genders and Gender Systems These two, coric genders and systems, are similar to xenogenders and aesthetigenders but hold so much information that a separate category needs to be made. Welcome to the next life! You may have heard of aesthetic titles such as ‘kidcore’, ‘clowncore’, ‘dreamcore’, and all that jazz. But what if I told you these were formed into new genders? Unsurprising or surprising? Mix. Let's visit the world of coric xenogenders while we’re talking about it. The -coric suffix centers around core aesthetics, such as the ones I’ve listed. There are many lists of coric xenogenders and they can only be created if the core aesthetic exists. Ever heard of cottagecore? BOOM! Cottagecoric. Remember how I mentioned those previous core aesthetics? Kidcoric, clowncoric, and dreamcoric all exist too. Another example is mafiacoric. Now, what you all may or may not have been waiting for, systems! These are not the same as systems in DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), though, alters can claim their own genders, pronouns and sexualities. This is usually referred to as a gender system. Many gender systems exist, though, the one that people bump into a lot, or atleast I do, the prince system! This system has two counterparts, the princess system and royal system. The idea around these centers around being a part of royalty. Priclownic? Clown prince! Royalclownic? Clown royal! You get it. Well, obviously there are more systems than just the royalty systems we’ve seen, for instance, the scene system, where your gender is described through a scene! What This All Means in the End So, I’ve introduced you to the world of many genders, more genders than sexualities I’ll admit, that was an accident on my part. I am unable to go over more, as this is the end! Now, it’s up to you to do the rest of the research and find who you really are. Uninterested? Great, that’s fine. But either way, I’m glad I’ve gotten to take you this far. Most of my information was taken from the lgbta.wiki, so thanks to that whole site and the people who use it! There are many mods, admins and editors who make pages for us to read, so big thanks to them! This also couldn’t be done with some of the people who coin these terms, as some of these pages wouldn’t be here without that. If you want to check out more, please do go to that wiki page, it holds so much information, and it’s fun to learn more! There were many topics I didn’t cover here, and I’m a bit sad I didn’t, but maybe you can discover the meanings all by yourself! There’s always time to find yourself within this community, and that’s fine. Just don’t let the queerphobes get to you, they’re only jealous that we get such a great community to ourselves. https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/LGBTA_Wiki Find the Flag! Start at the red dot and make your way to the rainbow flag! Pasquier, Morgan. Explore the spectrum. Glaad Campus Ambassador, 2017, www.glaad.org/amp/ace-guide-finding-your-community. Jagannathan, Meera. LGBTQ+ people have a worse financial outlook than their straight counterparts. market watch, 2019, www.marketwatch.com/story/lgbtq-people-have-a-worse-financial-outlook-than-their-straight-counterparts-2019-02-26. Gebhardt, Charles. Concordia University, issues.cune.edu/the-lgbt-disputes-teaching-and-practice-in-the-church-2/editorial-lgbtq-thoughts/. |
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