Any Other LGBT Gamers Here?

[The White Hunter]

any other trans gamers on the Escapist? I'd hate to be alone here.

There are a few trans individuals around but I couldn't tell you in they're in the group Andy Shandy here linked

The Escapist Gay-mers [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/The-Escapist-Gay-mers]

Since I'm not in the group, I couldn't tell you how active it is, but there's plenty of people in there at least.

Hopefully that helps you.

The group is fairly active, I don't know how many people there are trans but there's a few regulars, just head over and join and once you get approved just bump the chat and people will probably be nice and friendly.

 

[Miss Layton]

Not any of the above but a huge supporter of LGBT rights and freedoms, oh and my girlfriend is transgender. On a Tangential and this really applies to Trans-peoples on the site but for your interest Canada just passed Bill C-279 which makes it illegal to discriminate against transgender individuals! (makes me proud to call this country my home)

I know, eh?

 

[Miss Layton]

Lesbian here, with cross dressing tendencies, and am currently planning my wedding to my trans fiance.

Woooo, diversity!

But anyway; welcome, and congrats on coming out.

Thank you!

 

[Zeckt]

Yes there is quite a big LGBT community here I am transgender but I'm a gamer first and foremost thats why I'll keep this brief and go back to gaming right now. Back to Organ trail, counting the seconds till I can start playing bioshock infinite!

 

[Miss Layton]

Yes there is quite a big LGBT community I am transgender I but I'm a gamer first and foremost thats why I'll keep this brief and go back to gaming right now.

Heh, you do that. Thanks, and have fun!

 

[Sectan]

Not LGBT, but always glad to see even more diversity here! As I'm sure you've seen on the previous 2/3 pages you'll find plenty of groups and people including LGBT. Even though you've been here for about a month, WELCOME TO THE ESCAPIST.

Also, how the heck did you get the name TheTransgenderedGamer? I'd have though it would have been taken years ago!

 

[N3squ1ck]

I'm not LGBT, but welcome, friend <3
Since you are a gamer, you will fit right in here (as long as you also hail Gaben, like we all do )

 

[Zen Toombs]

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There is a difference between what gender you are, and what your sexuality is.

Yes, I know, I made it readily apparent in earlier posts.

And what you just said was highly insulting and rude to all transgender people. They are NOT just "not-straight". Sexuality has NOTHING to do with it. Someone who is transgender can be straight, gay, lesbian, bi, asexual, pansexual, etc. But they are still transgender.

Highly insulting? Get off that absurdly high-horse. I never said being transsexual just means "not-straight" but the term LGBT/QUILTBAG essentially does. A transsexual can be heterosexual but it doesn't make them "straight". "Straight" is the term that is associated with being non-trans heterosexual - or have we since adopted another word that I didn't know about to describe what is essentially a non-QUILTBAG/non-LGBT?

See this? THIS is how it is silly. All this fuss for not having a particular letter allocated to a specific sexuality & gender-identity combination in the broad term that just means "heterosexual and non-transsexual". "Vanilla". "Largest demographic". "Non-queer" (apparently that one insults people somehow).

While I agree that Snowfi has been on something of a high horse, they are correct. the LGBT/QUILTBAG thing takes two related concepts (minority sexualities and minority genders) and smashes them together in one group. But while a transgendered person (let's say a transgirl or a M-t-F or whatever) is still transgendered, they can be any sexuality under the rainbow. This does include straight. All straight means is "attracted to the opposite gender/sex", which can be in play regardless of ones trans-ness or cis-ness.

FYI, I'm invisi-quoting anyone who's posting on this sub-topic so they can continue to monitor it [http://gifsforum.com/images/image/up%20in%20this%20thread/grand/monotoring_this_thread.jpg].

]I'm quite aware of LGBT, quiltbag [http://quiltbag.keenspot.com/], etc. I'm also aware of the "truly" full acronym, which is silly amounts of long. Finally, I'm also a reader of Khaos [http://www.khaoskomix.com/], a LGBT comic who at one point made a LGBTWTFBBQ joke.

Seeing as even quiltbag can be somewhat ridiculous, I've meshed part of the full acronym with Tab's joke.

You see, I'm very supportive of the LGBT community what with me being one of them. I definitely understand WHY some people want to be so specific and inclusive, but it can sometimes get very silly. Because it gets silly, I sometimes poke fun at it. Laughter is what brings us all together, after all.

What's so "silly" about people wanting to be called what they see themselves as? I don't know who you are LGBT wise (you said you were "one of them"), but I wouldn't call whatever you are silly at all. Do you consider your gender or sexuality silly?

If not, then don't call what other people want to be called "silly".

People wanting to be called what they are is not silly. Please don't misrepresent me. All I called silly is the necessity of specifically naming all of those groups. That's the reason for going to quiltbag over "lgbt community", after all - we want to be more inclusive.

I'm going to assume you agree with that last sentence - if you don't, please enlighten me about another reason to use "quiltbag" over "lgbt community". But if inclusiveness is the point, then why do we stop at quiltbag? It's "excluding" pansexuals, who make up an oddly hight number of my friends. It's "excluding" two spirit, which believes that they (and some other sexual minorities) have both a male and a female spirit. And it's "excluding" a silly number of other things.

So we have two choices - we can either go full monty and use the whole acronym, OR we can go with one of the acceptable intermediary - somewhere between "lgbt" and just after "quiltbag" and just agree to disagree on where the perfect balance point is.

And we can always always ALWAYS accept little jokes about any and all situations, because humor is what brings us together.

 

[Miss Layton]

Not LGBT, but always glad to see even more diversity here! As I'm sure you've seen on the previous 2/3 pages you'll find plenty of groups and people including LGBT. Even though you've been here for about a month, WELCOME TO THE ESCAPIST.

Also, how the heck did you get the name TheTransgenderedGamer? I'd have though it would have been taken years ago!

Yeah, tell me about it. Honestly, I was just joking... and then i got stuck with it. Oh, balls. I have to be honest, I really want it changed, but apparently I can't.

 

[Miss Layton]

I'm not LGBT, but welcome, friend <3
Since you are a gamer, you will fit right in here (as long as you also hail Gaben, like we all do )

All hail Gaben!

 

[Miss Layton]

Not LGBT, but always glad to see even more diversity here! As I'm sure you've seen on the previous 2/3 pages you'll find plenty of groups and people including LGBT. Even though you've been here for about a month, WELCOME TO THE ESCAPIST.

Also, how the heck did you get the name TheTransgenderedGamer? I'd have though it would have been taken years ago!

Before you get the wrong idea, I'm talking the name. I'm genuinely trans, I just think now maybe the name was a bit too silly of a choice, given there are other trans gamers on this site. It's a bit redundant.

 

[WindKnight]

Transgender here, though only out about it in certain arenas. Some places I feel more safer than others (hence no linking of my gamertag, as I can't disguise my voice well, and, hey, its xbox live)

 

[Miss Layton]

Transgender here, though only out about it in certain arenas. Some places I feel more safer than others (hence no linking of my gamertag, as I can't disguise my voice well, and, hey, its xbox live)

Smart move, my dear.

 

[Angie7F]

Hi and welcome.
I am a LGBT friendsly straight female.

I like escapist because it is a little more mature and civil here with lots of diversity

 

[Relish in Chaos]

Not meaning any offence here, but it certainly is fascinating to see just how many transgendered people we have in this community. It's nice to have some diversity.

I'm not LGBT, although I guess I'm a little bicurious.

 

[Miss Layton]

Not meaning any offence here, but it certainly is fascinating to see just how many transgendered people we have in this community. It's nice to have some diversity.

I'm not LGBT, although I guess I'm a little bicurious.

Variety is the spice of life, after all.

If you ever feel bicurious, best to at least try once. Otherwise, it will annoy you for years.

 

[an annoyed writer]

Not meaning any offence here, but it certainly is fascinating to see just how many transgendered people we have in this community. It's nice to have some diversity.

I'm not LGBT, although I guess I'm a little bicurious.

You couldn't be more inoffensive with that statement. I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that. One of the reasons I joined, and one of the reasons I stay.

 

[snowfi6916]

I hate to burst your bubble, but "straight" is a slang term for heterosexual only. It has nothing to do with whether someone is trans or not.

From Wikipedia:

The term "straight" originated as a mid-20th century gay slang term for heterosexuals, ultimately coming from the phrase "to go straight" (as in "straight and narrow"), or stop engaging in homosexual sex. One of the first uses of the word in this way was in 1941 by author G. W. Henry.[25] Henry's book concerned conversations with homosexual males and used this term in connection with the reference to ex-gays. It currently simply is a colloquial term for "heterosexual" having, like many words, changed in primary meaning over time.

You are wrong.

have we since adopted another word that I didn't know about to describe what is essentially a non-QUILTBAG/non-LGBT?

Provide me this new non-LGBT/non-QUILTBAG word then.

Either way, the point still stands. LGBT/QUILTBAG means the same damn thing: non-(heterosexual and non-trans). Or do you dispute that?

Heterosexual is what most people are. I don't want to say "normal", because that implies that homosexuality and bisexuality is "not normal".

The gender equivalent of "heterosexual" would be "cisgender". It basically means you see yourself as the gender you were born as. Just like most people are heterosexual, most people are cisgender. I have also seen it as "cis-male", or "cis-female".

And no, I don't dispute that heterosexual/non-trans doesn't fall under LGBT/QUILTBAG, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to call themselves what they are comfortable with.

I, personally, think that I may be asexual. I have tried to have relationships, but I never seem to be attracted to anyone, male or female. I am 27 years old, I have never had a girlfriend/boyfriend, and I am still a virgin. When I feel alone, I remember that there are other people who are asexual too, and they still have friends and are happy.

Like I said in an earlier post, life is too short to not be happy with who you are, and no one should tell you that you can't call yourself what you want, or that you are "silly" for doing so. Because being happy is not silly.