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Doesn't she have a husband?
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I've never seen gay used as a catch-all term to include bisexuality before, but i think that's what you're doing? Is that a normal thing to do with the word gay? I thought 'queer' more common to refer to such a case. Unless she describes herself as gay, I guess, though I would still be interested in why that specific term?
The internet does it sometimes. I've seen "Gay" used to describe straight trans people (Which felt transphobic to me, but it was a trans person doing it so what the fuck do I know) and nonbinary people in general.
The thing about being straight trans is that no matter what you society determines that what you're doing is non-conforming on both sexuality and gender. They might be "straight" but society considers it gay. In a sense it's both a reclamation of words, a statement of pride in who you are, and also an elimination of the power of the word to be used negatively against you.
Another factor is probably that at some point the straight trans person has been with gay non-trans people, and in some cases they were gay non-trans before they realised they were ever trans. So then it all just becomes a mess of semantics and they generally don't care about the terms other than being acknowledged as the gender they identify as.
In a way "gay" becomes a catchall for all things non-conforming when used this way.
Very interesting phenomenon. Pretty dialectical, that is. Cool, and good to know!
In the irl queer spaces I'm in, gay and queer are used pretty much interchangeably. This is a specific irl space though, so ymmv, I don't know of it's a regionalism or what
To be clear I did not know she apparently has a husband, for some reason I thought she was lesbian.
Then she's bisexual.
I'm no expert on this but my understanding is both are correct terms here, and the terms are not mutually exclusive. If you're bisexual you're gay because you're capable of being into the same sex and that qualifies you to identify as gay. If you're gay and attracted to the opposite sex aswell then you're bi of course.
As heterosexuality is the default or the norm, it means it works more as something you disqualify from for not being only into the opposite sex, so you can't be straight when you're bisexual. I guess it's like how half-back people can say theyre mixed or black but usually not white if theyre noticeably not strictly racially white to others.
Confusing identity stuff basically. And as the other replies stated gay can also mean anyone LGBTQ+ in some cases.
Apparently she does? For some reason I thought she was lesbian, I have no idea why I thought that but I just didn't question it