Gender Fluidity (via Curve magazine)
>>> Source: Curve Magazine (lesbian monthly)
>>> Author: Zak Szymanski, with Gina DeVries
>>> Via: Trans-Academics.org
>>> URL: http://www.curvemag.com/Detailed/298.html
>>> Date: Vol 13, Issue 1 (2003)
>>> Location: US
>>> Item: News
>>> Title: The Opposite of Opposite Sex
Last year, Adrianne,* 23, had a week-long fling while she was
vacationing on New York’s gay resort Fire Island.
Since August 2002, J.R.,* 24, who lives in San Francisco, has been
heavily involved in a new relationship that looks promising for the
future.
For the past several months, Rochelle,* 20, has been having frequent
sex with her girlfriend in their Denver apartment.
On the surface, these stories are relatively unremarkable. But the
fact that Adrianne, J.R. and Rochelle are biologically female and
their partners are biologically male - and they all identify
as “queer” - poses a unique challenge to health-care and social-
service providers across the country who have had to rethink their
notions of “queer sex” in order to serve their target populations.
Coast to coast, youth and gay-oriented agencies have slowly been
realizing that what may be defined as “heterosexual” relations by
textbooks and public officials in fact happens quite often in younger
queer circles, labels and genitalia be damned. As a result, many of
these organizations - from HIV/AIDS groups to pregnancy counseling
centers - have had to adjust their agendas to include populations
they never before realized needed their services.
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