Think about how you can access funding to help you print materials and get a food (bait) and advertising budget.Īfter that you just need to get started! Advertising, booking spaces, exciting people about the program, and gettin’ to training! We’ve got you covered in terms of curriculum development, and soon we’ll have a whole slew of resources to help you become an all-star facilitator.
What are your goals for the program? Who do you want to train and how many individuals would that be? How can you access some (don’t need much) funding? Can you do this without an established student group? Are you into going at it alone? After you’ve answered these questions – you’ll have a good idea of where to start.ĭo you have dreams of Safe Zoning the entire freshman class? Perhaps scale back, start small, build up interest and gather others who maybe want to become facilitators in the future. The editors have not unilaterally decided that the 'gay community' is now going to be called the 'queer community.' Advertisement. First off – you’ve come to a great place to start! You’ve got few things to take into consideration. While 'Queer Voices' is just as limiting as 'Gay Voices,' it is only being used as the title for a Huffington Post section. If you’re unsure if you should use it, or when you should/shouldn’t, here are two helpful rules: use it as an adjective (e.g., “Meg is a queer educator” - yay!) not a noun (e.g., “Meg is a queer” - blegh.) and use it if you’re comfy explaining why you use it. The term queer can often be use interchangeably with LGBTQ. Due to its historical use as a derogatory term, it is not embraced or used by all members of the LGBTQ community. Gayness, homosexuality, is inherently a question of sexuality. But my queerness is not limited to the question of sexuality.
Also used to describe people who have non-normative gender identity or as a political affiliation. Gay and Queer Have Unique Relationships with the Concept of Sex. LGBTQIAPP+: A collection of identities short for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, polysexual (sometimes abbreviated to LGBT or LGBTQ+). Queer – (adj) used as an umbrella term to describe individuals who don’t identify as straight. Within the LGBTQ community, there are many terminologies that are used to explain a persons gender identity, sexual orientation gender. The term intersex is not interchangeable with or a synonym for transgender (although some intersex people do identify as transgender). Here’s how we define it in our vocabulary: We use “queer” in an affirming way on the site and in our trainings, and see it as a great umbrella term to refer to all diverse sexualities and genders. And for others, it’s still a slur, and they wouldn’t use it, or want it used to describe them. For some, queer is considered a “bad word” (i.e., a slur) in some contexts, and okay in others (e.g., who is saying it, how they’re saying it) or was a slur, but now they’re comfy with it. For many people (especially those who are younger, or in more urban areas) queer is a word of pride and the best way to “umbrella” diverse sexualities and genders.