Filed under: When left-wing nuances collide.
Via Campus Reform:
“L,” “B,” “T,” and “Q” have apparently been left out of the LGBTQ community as privileged, white gay males take center stage in the media.
Student journalist Laura Gillespie wrote an article for the University of Houston Daily Cougar’s sex week issue arguing that bisexual and transgender individuals (among others) feel ignored by media depictions of the LGBTQ community. Scholars and LGBTQ experts tend to agree.
“There is not equal representation [in the media],” Lorraine Schroeder, director of the University of Houston’s LGBT Resource Center, told Campus Reform. “Gays and lesbians are lumped into one group, bisexuals are almost invisible, and transgenders are more represented than bisexuals, but still less than gays and lesbians.” […]
According to Gillespie, “the acceptance begins and ends with white, cisgender (meaning a person who identifies with the gender they were assigned at birth) gay men.” Just as other communities focus on white, straight men, Gillespie said, the LGBTQ community focuses on white gay men. This, she continued, quickly reverts the LGBTQ debate back to white privilege. “Those without benefit of white or male privilege still suffer heavily.”