Blog Post 25

I. Summary

This article discusses the relation between LGBT people relating to composition.  The author wants to reveal and make clear to the reader how sheading light on “queerness” is important. The authors Wallace and Alexander believe that students can better understand how to write by expanded their minds and thinking about the LGBT community while writing. They talk about 3 important things that cause problems in society and discuss normativity and nonnormativity. The authors also discuss the need to confront homophobia, or fear of gay practices. The authors talk about how people can view LGBT as less of an authority figures mainly because of their sexual orientations. The authors then go on to speak about a proactive approach to ending homophobia. Once the LGBT community is made visible the authors believe that homophobia will end.

II. Implementing Inclusion

Cisgender is when someone identifies themselves as that of their own biological sex.  Gender neutral pronouns are used for people who are transgendered because the pronouns are gender neutral.  Homophobia is the fear of homosexuals and/or their behavior and practices.  The LGBT community is definitely a discourse community in its own write. They use their own language and terms to fit into their own societies norms.  

The  terms that fall under the category of “queer” are words such as gay, bisexual, lesbian, queer, asexual, and questioning. However gender identity is defined different than sexual orientation, such as:  Transexual, Cross-dresser, Gender bender/blender, Intersex (if having surgery), Genderqueer, and Gender non-conforming.   The “queer community is anything differing from people who are cisgendered and heterosexual.  They are words like: Zim, in place of Them, Ze, in place of They, and Hirs in place of Theirs.  The transgender uses these pronouns because, I believe, they don’t consider themselves to be a man or a woman.