+ Month
How many?
But…but…but…
Each June, Pride Month recognizes and honours the experiences and history of Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual (2SLGBTQQIA+) and other identities and communities and celebrates the positive impacts 2SLGBTQQIA+ people have had around the world.
Isn’t that enough?
Meanwhile where is Women’s Month?
Wilfrid Laurier University aims to create safe and equitable campuses for all 2SLGBTQQIA+ members of its community. The university will celebrate Pride Month with a series of educational and inclusive events, some of which are highlighted below.
Flying the Progress Pride flag represents Laurier’s commitment to honouring the identities, experiences, and contributions of the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community and its continuing struggle for social, political and economic equality, as well as the university’s commitment to the inclusion of First Nations, Métis, Inuit, Black and racialized voices in 2SLGBTQQIA+ and other equity initiatives.
But not women. Never women.
Thank goodness for copy’n’paste. Even if I were Diversity Commissar at Wilfrid Laurier University I wouldn’t have the patience to type “2SLGBTQQIA+” every time.
By the way, what’s with the second “Q”?
Questioning, I think.
Indeed, Questioning must be the right answer, as seen in the first blockquote. It seems to me that all readers of this blog could fit into the Questioning category? And don’t tell me that there are some things that Must Not Be Questioned.
Couldn’t they just say something like” sexuality and gender diverse people”? Which would then become SGDP.
So questioning is sort of like “searching” or “seeking” in Christianity? You’re trying to find the right new way to identify yourself so you will be more special than all the other special people. Just like Christians are saved, so are the alphabeticals special.
No, because each letter is Special and so very different from the other letters. Each one must be Celebrated, and most important of all, it must be Centered. (Well, maybe with the exception of L, G and B, who are after all cis and hence suspect? They are just so last year.) It’s gonne be crowded there in the Center, I think.
@iknklast: Maybe the alphabeticals can be like the Holy Trinity, just with more parts. Separate, yet the same.
A purity spiral in action:
In 1970 it was Pride Day.
By the mid-1990s it was Pride Week.
By the turn of the millennium it was starting to be called Pride Month.
By 2022 the Canadian government had declared all of summer, from June to September, as “Pride Season.”
And now, just a year later, of course, Diversity, Equity, and Incusion busybodies want to extend the season through October.
This will just about get queer people safely to the end of the second week of November, which is the start of Trans Awareness Week. And the day after that is of course the Trans Day of Visibility.
In case you’re worried about that two-week prideless interlude in which people have the nerve to celebrate World War I veterans instead of the real heroes — the Rainbow People — there’s Intersex Remembrance Day on November 8th. But many believe that’s still not enough queer remembrance for November, so there’s an active campaign to ensure the whole month of November is celebrated as Trans Awareness Month.
And earlier in the year, for those who can’t wait until June to express their pride, we’ve got the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in May, and before that, there’s International Asexuality Day in early April.
Next year we won’t even have to wait until April, because Sunday March 31st is the most holy day of them all: Trans Visibility Day, which unenlightened cisheteronormative folk insultingly refer to as Easter Sunday.
Oh! And speaking of Jesus: south of the Equator, Mardi Gras has already become Australia’s gay pride celebration season.
And back up here, the exclusionary cisheteronormative “Valentine’s Day” is counterprogrammed with Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, for the seven days following February 14th.
What’s left?
Christmas, New Year’s, and in the U.S., Martin Luther King Jr. Day, remain shamefully unqueer.
But I’m sure GLAAD and Justin Trudeau will team up and make a plan to fix those holidays, too. For one thing, the “+” doesn’t even have a single day yet, let alone a week or a month!
Here, for free, are some suggestions:
Christ+ day
Martin Luther Drag King Week
New Year’s Resolution to End All Queerphobias Eve
All they have to do now is add non-questioning, thereby inclusiving the rest of us in the specialness. I feel left out. :P
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Harald @ 6 – it’s like a big wheel. The circle of life. The wheel of fortune. The Mercedes symbol of eternal youth. Something like that.
Or, maybe like the animals on a well known farm – equal, but with some more equal than others?
I have a small theory about the explosion of transvestism becoming an ideology. Because men don’t dress up any more in ordinary life.
I’ve been reading O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series about the British navy in the Napoleonic wars.
The blokes on their warships mostly wore working gear as they had to haul sails and man pumps – their work was hard and dangerous. But then would come the ceremonial days – Sundays, and formal receptions of Captains or Admirals from other ships. Then the officers would put on their broadcloth blue jackets with epaulettes and their fore and aft hats; the Marines would strangle themselves in red coats and stocks; even the hands would have ribbons and embroidery on their clean shirts. Thus they would enjoy their finery. Then resume their practical dress.
Men now always wear casual dress – even in the corporate world suits and ties are becoming rarer.
If men were allowed some days when they did put on finery, they would forget about wanting to wear women’s clothing. I would bet that transvestism is less common in Scotland where men do wear kilts on formal occasions.
#12,
According to the Scottish comedian, Frankie Boyle, the only people who wear kilts these days are English guys at weddings.
Now? To get to the like, point? that I like wanted to make? You’re like all wrong? about what like questioning? like literally means? It’s for like people? who like talk? like this? We’re like literally like valid? and I’d actually like appreciate it? if you’d literally like ease up? and lay off the literal like inflectionophobic slurs?
It’s called? Uptalking? Excellent word?
I’ve always known it as Australian Rising Inflection, or ‘Ari’ for short, but whatever it’s called it’s bloody annoying. I had the ‘pleasure’ recently of being at a dinner party at which one of the guests spoke with a combination of uptalk and vocal fry. It’s so difficult to eat through permanently gritted teeth.
It’s very American too though – not universal here but very present all the same. OH I KNOW about vocal fry & uptalk in the same package. Horror.