Carol Queen on Margaret Cho, “Tranny-chasing” and Fetishism
By Dr. Carol Queen • Jul 18th, 2007 • Category: BlogDr. Carol Queen, Good Vibrations’ Staff Sexologist, responds on her blog to the comments and controversy surrounding Margaret Cho, “tranny-chasing” and the blurred line between attraction and fetishism:
“Oh dear… when allies do not feel the alliance, it is so sad. I think this is an ongoing issue with progressives, but that’s not what I’m thinking about today. Today it’s trannies and tranny-chasers, transfolk and transfans, and sex (or really people’s reactions to sex) making things complicated in unexpected ways. Here’s what I’m talking about….”
Dr. Carol Queen >> Carol Queen is a writer, speaker, educator and activist with a doctorate in sexology. First as an organizer in the lesbian/gay community, where she helped found one of the first gay youth groups in the United States, and later in the emerging international bisexual community, as a sex worker and a practitioner of alternative sexualities, she typically teaches and writes from her own experience and that of her communities even as she references academic thought on these subjects. See her website: www.carolqueen.com.
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