"I certainly wouldn't have wanted to join something called an estrogen brigade..."
I was on an "estrogen brigade" fan-list once, and HATED the name... but liked the List and the character we squee'd for. IIRC, a lot of the List-members there would've self-identified as something other than "Straight". (Certainly, if liking/being turned on by m/m fic can be cited as proof of a sexuality that's outside the "Straight" norm, I'd be "bent" and so would LOTS of my online friends!)
And if the Religious Right wanted to draw a line between "Queer" and "Straight", I'd be wearing my loudest rainbow-tie-dyed shirt and standing on the "Queer" side in solidarity with all my friends... "Queer" and "Straight" can be as much about mindset as about one's actual sexual experiences...
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I was on an "estrogen brigade" fan-list once, and HATED the name... but liked the List and the character we squee'd for. IIRC, a lot of the List-members there would've self-identified as something other than "Straight". (Certainly, if liking/being turned on by m/m fic can be cited as proof of a sexuality that's outside the "Straight" norm, I'd be "bent" and so would LOTS of my online friends!)
And if the Religious Right wanted to draw a line between "Queer" and "Straight", I'd be wearing my loudest rainbow-tie-dyed shirt and standing on the "Queer" side in solidarity with all my friends... "Queer" and "Straight" can be as much about mindset as about one's actual sexual experiences...