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Q: what is a lesbrarian?

A:  See chart and photo below.

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Lesbrarians at Seattle Pride 2010

Lesbrarians = totally …

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gender Q & A

Now in addition to “This Week in Gender Bending,” Zavi will have a new reoccurring themed post.  “Gender Q & A” will provide information about many of the clever, original and inventive definitions of gender that fellow queer folk have created. As always, please feel free to send in your own suggestions and/or photos to genderpanic (at) gmail …

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flying our rainbow flags

Space Needle has pride!

We at genderpanic are in Seattle and Seattle Pride is here!  There’s a rainbow flag flying on top of the Space Needle for the first time ever, and there have been parties and events happening all over the city this past week.

We’ve been all over the town, walking in the Dyke March, cheering at the Pride Parade, and browsing the booths at Capitol Hill Pride and the Seattle Pride Festival.  We’ve seen the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, naked rainbow men on bicycles, lesbrarians, a 10-foot wide replica of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Batman on roller skates wearing a g-string, lesbians lube wrestling on a float, and much, much more!  It’s been a good week to have fun, to be proud, and to give one’s lover boo an extra squeeze while out in public.  We’ve seen so many cute couples, of so many different gender combinations, and are truly delighted by this year’s outpouring of pride in diversity.  Kudos to you, Seattle, and to all the excellent …

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this week in gender bending: super cool blogs

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I spend a lot of time online, following link after link, and often find super cool things.  Here’s a handful of blogs that, upon discovery, fell into the ‘ooh-must-read-through-all-archives-now’ category for me.

Rooster Tails – This charming transguy from New Zealand truly understands what reinterpreting gender is all about, as evidenced in the comic featured above.

The Seventeen Magazine Project – A high school senior takes a look into America’s feminine ideals by spending a month living according to the suggestion of this top teen mag.

Stuff No One Told Me – An illustrator from Barcelona shares all the facts he learned the …

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the irony of katy perry's success

Katy Perry is a player that I love to hate.  I initially researched her for a gender studies paper about lesbians in the music industry and learned a variety of strange Katy Perry trivia.  I haven’t thought much about her since then, until I saw the amazing video that I’ve embedded below, of this year’s AIDS/LifeCycle participants remaking Perry’s hit “California Gurls.”

This video is utterly fantastic, but reminded me of what irks me most about Perry – that she has made a fortune for herself mocking the very subculture that she exploits.  I’m not usually interested in the lives of artists outside of their music and I am definitely not of the opinion that one has to be LBGTQ in order to care about/be involved in queer issues, but Perry’s sheer hypocrisy just rubs me the wrong way.  Perry is very open about the fact that she has never actually engaged in any type of queer behavior, clarifying in a hilarious interview with The New Gay that her hit …

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