Unf*cking Flashback: UNFTR on LGBTQ. Behind the Acronyms.

Unf*cking The Republic

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Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In celebration of Pride we're flashing back to an early Unf*cking: UNFTR on LGBTQ.

Read the essay or visit the episode resources online.

Today we begin a conversation about the LGBTQ movement in the United States, with a nod to our Canadian friends as well. In order to properly introduce issues facing LGBTQ people into the larger context of socio economic and political topics we cover on UNFTR, we wanted to start with a conversation about the evolving language of inclusion and representation within the LGBTQ community.

Resources

Edmonton CityNews: Hope blossoms as first two-spirited MP elected
Code Switch: Is It Time To Say R.I.P. to P.O.C.?
Geneseo: Understanding Gender Identity and Gender Expression
PBS: American Experience- Stonewall Uprising
New York Times: The Stonewall You Know Is a Myth. And That’s O.K
Human Rights Campaign: Fatal Violence Against the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community in 2021
National Center For Transgender Equality: LGBTQ People Behind Bars
Human Rights Campaign: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Definitions
The Williams Institute: Poverty In The Lesbian, Gay, And Bisexual Community
Columbia Journalism Review: How the word ‘queer’ was adopted by the LGBTQ community
LGBTQIA Resource Center: UC Davis Resource

Book Love

Eric Cervini: The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie + Kay Whitlock: Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Unfucking Pros, Glenn, Corey S, and August M.
0:06.1	So as you know, we recently added membership tiers at buy me a coffee.com slash UNFTR to help support the show.
0:12.4	So thank you to everyone who signed up for one of our tiers and to everyone who continues to support UNFTR.
0:19.4	Adding to the list of unfuckers, we have bottle fuckers from best of the left
0:22.6	and pitchfuckers from pitchfork economics.
0:25.3	Welcome to the friends of our friends
0:27.0	out there in the potterverse.
0:28.6	And of course,
0:29.7	welcome back to unfuckers subfuckers
0:31.4	on Canuckers, Eurofuckers,
0:32.6	and down underfuckers.
0:33.9	Love and power to Nettie out there in the corner of college in Appleton and out of gammy,
0:37.9	fuck Milton Freeman, and happy birthday, Occupy!
0:43.7	To our neighbors of North had quite a monumental election this past week.
0:47.7	Everything changed in Canada.
0:49.8	It was seismic.
0:51.2	Nothing will ever be the same.
0:57.9	I'm just kidding. One thing that did happen was that I misread Aaron O'Toole's name in the last episode and called him Eric. But fuck him. He lost anyway.
1:03.5	Thank you, CJ, for the catch and for not holding it against me. It's one of the benefits of
1:07.5	being an American, you know. Canadians know that we're stupid, so they generally give us a pass on things like this. But yeah, Pretty JT called a surprise election
1:15.5	in August, thinking the liberals would pick up some seats and lead with a clear mandate going
1:20.1	forward. He was banking on Canadians feeling as though liberals handled COVID effectively and
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