54 GSCENE
CHARLIE SAYS
A SILENT B
WE’RE AS GOOD AS YOU,
BY CHARLIE BAUER PhD
Anyone who knows my work also knows that I’m a stickler for all
devious language and hidden context; of how the uber-right hide their
meanings behind the agendas they so neatly posit in their language,
and how claiming of the language first (eg pro-life) automatically
makes everyone else the opposite (anti-life). What Shakespeare used to
call a ‘jade’s trick’.
But should we actually use the word ‘gay’ anymore?
It is the G of the LGBT acronym, after all. We have gay men and
lesbians. Trans* can encompass an entire array of statuses, always
fluid, because to be in a state of trans is exactly as it sounds, no
matter where you are on the trans s X