Are there a lot of gay people in nerd culture

are there a lot of gay people in nerd culture

While I don’t really comprehend anything about or get the least bit of interest in Lady Gaga, I was interested by something she said in an interview with OUT Magazine:

That’s another clause in the Gagaland constitution: Lgbtq+ culture shall gush undiluted into the rapids of society. It shall not be co-opted, fancified, dolled up, or Uncle Tommed. “I very much yearn to inject gay tradition into the mainstream,” she says, “It’s not an underground tool for me. It’s my whole being. So I always sort of joke the genuine motivation is to just turn the world gay.”

I have had some awfully strange conversations in my time about whether there is in fact such a thing as lgbtq+ culture, but let’s for a second accept that there is, since it’s my main research interest (if I may be so presumptuous as a college sophomore as to have a “research interest”). In any case, as much as I esteem this liberationist sense of bringing gay culture to the masses and therefore making a space for it in a unwelcoming world (and I perform think it’s interesting that what we’re talking about here is gay customs, in its historical, pre-liberation, campy sense, not LGBT culture), I don’

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With Fan Expo Canada running Aug 28 to 31 at the Metro Convention Centre, Toronto will be flooded with nerds and geeks from all walks of life, including many from the LGBT community. Xtra spoke with Hope Nicholson, Lost Heroes’ associate producer and CGA Comics co-founder; Geeks OUT’s Jono Jarrett; and Toronto Gaymers’ Samson Romero about gay geek representation and the rise of nerd culture.

Xtra: Why carry out you think that there is significant overlap between the LGBT community and nerd/geek communities?

Jono Jarrett: I’m just one person, but I think there are lots of opportunities for overlap. Not to generalize too broadly, but if you’re growing up as a creative little queerling and don’t necessarily fit in with the recover of the kids, nerdier pursuits like comic books or video games or horror movies or melody could be a necessary escape and the top way to make friends with other outcasts. I think, too, when one comes out as homosexual and learns to inhabit that truth, sometimes in the face of societal or familial pressure, it’s easy not only to “come out” as a geek, but to welcome and cele

randomgeekings

The word geek can be defined as a slang phrase noting a person as “One who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things including those of intellectuality, electronics, etc.” … or a person with an eccentric devotion to a particular interest. From oxforddictionaries.com it’s asked “Is being a geek something to be proud of?” I personally speak yes, yes it is. The site goes on to say that “a few decades ago the answer would almost certainly possess been no: the word was a cruel and critical label attached to clever, but socially awkward, people: train-spotters, computer geeks, and unpopular college students. Then in the 1990s everything changed. The laptop industry helped many geeks to accomplish great success, and the wider awareness of geeks began to shift. Entity a geek was suddenly a positive thing, suggesting an admirable level of knowledge, expertise, and passion: geeks could do ‘cool stuff’. It’s now ordinary for people to be self-proclaimed or self-confessedgeeks, with geekiness no longer confined to the planet of science and technology ( a music geek with an amazing vinyl collection, the

Representation in Nerd Culture

Have you ever heard the phrase, “Representation is everything”? If you haven’t, it essentially pertains to seeing someone you unite with on television, in movies, books, comics, or games. Whether you attach because of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. doesn’t matter. Just seeing someone like you makes all the difference in the world.

And in light of the recent attack on June 12 in Orlando, I realized that visibility for the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Tansgender) group is very important these days. There is so much hate spewing all over America for the community, over bathrooms, marriage, or just existing.

Escaping through nerd culture is sometimes the easiest thing to do.

So, who are the top 7 LGBT characters in nerd culture, in my opinion and what have they done for nerds everywhere?

Representation in Nerd Culture

1. Xena and Gabrielle

During the run of the show, their relationship was never confirmed. It was hinted at. It was heavily implied in the subtext of the writing. But it wasn’t officially stated until long after the show ended in 2001.

In fact, the writers didn’t begin the business with a lesbian

Last week I noted that letting racism and sexism into nerd/geek/otaku culture is inappropriate and the antitheses of our culture – and pretty much the antitheses of civilized behavior.  I missed something very crucial, and something so obvious it’s simple to forget.

While I’m busy decrying racism and sexism, I forgot to speak to anti-LGBT attitudes in nerddom.  It’s another thing that can ruin our continuous party, and it’s something easy to forget.

I actually run-in less anti-LGBT attitude in our tradition than in many; that doesn’t intend it’s not there.  It just means its easy to forget that it can and does exist, unfortunately.

I discover nerd/geek/otaku culture is a place where LGBT bias is a lot rarer.  We are people for whom slash is a aim of casual discussion.  We are people for whom yaoi is just a part of everyday fandom.  We are people who are used to seeing same-sex couples at conventions.  We acquire something to be proud of here people.

Except . . .

. . . except let us be honest, the bias is still there.  You locate it in homophobic slurs and casual bigotry.  You detect it in those moments where anti-LGBT bias you didn’t thi