Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures
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Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures are subcultures and communities composed of people who have shared experiences, backgrounds, or interests due to common sexual or gender identities. Among the first to argue that members of sexual minorities can also constitute cultural minorities were Adolf Brand, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Leontine Sagan in Germany. These pioneers were later followed by the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis in the United States.
Not all persons of various gender and sexual orientations identify or affiliate with a particular subculture. Reasons include geographic distance, unawareness of the subculture's existence, fear of social stigma, or personal preference to remain unidentified with sexuality- or gender-based subcultures or communities. Some have suggested that the identities defined by the Western heterosexualized cultures are based on sexuality, have serious flaws, and often leave no space for the public to discuss these flaws of gender and sexuality. This leaves many rejecting these identities in large numbers, often while disowning their own sexual needs and possibly subjecting them to be classified under what they may consider misclassified sexual identities.
See also
- Asexuality
- Bisexuality
- Gay community
- Gay village
- Gender and Sexual Diversity
- Non-westernized concepts of male sexuality
- LGBT history in China
- LGBT history
- LGBT rights in Taiwan
- LGBT social movements
- Polyamory
- Queer
- Separatism
- Sexual minorities in Japan
- Sexual orientation
- Third gender