Specificity without identity: Articulating post-gender sexuality through the “non-binary lesbian”

Hord, Levi C. R.

doi:10.1177/1363460720981564

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“…For example, as gender-expansive self-conceptions such as genderqueer, gender fluid, and nonbinary proliferate, sexual self-conceptions are shifting away from terms such as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, toward labels such as pansexual, skoliosexual (i.e., attraction to nonbinary gender), or queer (Bosse & Chiodo, 2016; Watson et al, 2020). Sexual identities based on a gender binary can also be combined with gender-expansive identities (e.g., nonbinary lesbian) to communicate greater specificity and authenticity in one’s expression of gender and sexual desire (Hord, 2022).…”

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The psychology of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century: Social technologies and stories of authenticity.

Hammack,

Manago

2024

American Psychologist

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The 21st century has seen shifts in social and scientific understandings of gender and sexuality in the United States. From the legitimization of same-sex marriage to the heightened visibility of transgender identities, nonbinary gender, and forms of intimate diversity such as asexuality, kink, and polyamory, core cultural and scientific assumptions about gender and sexuality have been challenged. This article situates these changes in the historical context of 21st century social technologies, which challenge traditional sources of authority about information and provide enhanced opportunities for individuals to experience authenticity in gender and sexuality. We frame authenticity as a master cultural narrative in the United States characterized by feeling a heightened sense of self-authorship and alignment between inner experience and embodiment of gender and sexuality. Five narratives now circulate in the United States, four of which support sexual and gender diversity: (a) gender as self-constructed; (b) sexuality as plural, playful, flexible, and fluid; (c) sexuality and monogamy as cultural compulsions; and (d) intersectionality as central to the experience of sexuality and gender. A fifth narrative seeking to legitimize hierarchies (e.g., patriarchy) is hostile to sexual and gender diversity but remains anchored in a metanarrative of authenticity and has benefitted equally from the affordances of social technologies. This historical moment provides researchers and practitioners with the opportunity to more intentionally ground their work in lived experience, challenge normative thinking about sexuality and gender, practice affirmation, center the phenomenon of diversity over discrete identity categories in an ever-exclusionary acronym (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and more identities [LGBTQ+]), and embrace fluid and nonlinear narratives of social change.

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Section: Social Technologies and Stories Of Authenticitymentioning

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The psychology of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century: Social technologies and stories of authenticity.

Hammack,

Manago

2024

American Psychologist

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“…Therefore, even though the number of marriages impacted is likely to be small, the term differentsex is more accurate and inclusive of marriages which are not same-sex but involve people who are Queer and just don't fit the "same-sex" definition. An example of a Queer couple who are not "samesex" would be a lesbian couple where one partner is a nonbinary lesbian (Hord 2020), and the other partner is a cisgender female lesbian. Using data from the ABS (ABS, 2021a; ABS, 2020a; ABS, 2019), we investigate the following questions: In the years since same-sex marriage was legalised (i) What proportion of total marriages were same-sex marriages?…”

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Same-sex marriage and remarriage in Australia, 2018-2020

Heley

Hewitt

2022

Aust Popul Stud

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Background Since same-sex marriage was legalised in Australia in December 2017, thousands of same-sex couples have married. Little Australian research to date has examined same-sex marriage trends and how they are similar or different to different-sex marriages. Aims To describe trends in same-sex marriages and remarriages in Australia for the years 2018–2020, comparing and contrasting with different-sex marriages and remarriages by age and sex. Data and methods Data come from the Australian Bureau of Statistics publication Marriage and Divorces, Australia. We use available data on different-sex and same-sex marriages and remarriages for age and sex. Results The proportion of same-sex marriages declined from 5.5% of total marriages to 3.7% between 2018 and 2020. Same-sex marriages tended to be at older ages, but the age gap between same-sex and different-sex marriages for males and females reduced over time. Similar trends were observed for remarriage. For different-sex remarriages, there was a slightly higher proportion of males remarrying than females. In contrast, for same-sex remarriages, the proportion of females remarrying was double that of same-sex males. Conclusions Early trends suggest same-sex marriages and remarriages occurred at older ages than different-sex. This age gap reduced over time, suggesting that early adopters of same-sex marriage may be a different group. Interestingly, same-sex remarriage was much more common for females. Given that same-sex marriage was not legal in Australia until late 2017, it is likely that many of their first marriages were different-sex. This has received little attention in the research literature to date and requires further investigation.

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‘I Am they.’ Non-Binary Representation in Television Fiction as a Manifestation of Social Conceptions

Blanco-Fernández,

Villegas-Simón,

Soto-Sanfiel

2024

Journal of Homosexuality

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Specificity without identity: Articulating post-gender sexuality through the “non-binary lesbian”

Cited by 9 publications

References 37 publications

The psychology of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century: Social technologies and stories of authenticity.

The psychology of sexual and gender diversity in the 21st century: Social technologies and stories of authenticity.

Same-sex marriage and remarriage in Australia, 2018-2020

‘I Am they.’ Non-Binary Representation in Television Fiction as a Manifestation of Social Conceptions

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