Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Acceptance Of LGBT Culture

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LGBT culture is shared by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual or transgender, and sometimes is referred to as queer culture. LGBT culture varies widely by geography and the identity of the participants. Not all LGBT people identify with LGBT culture due to geographic distance, unawareness of the subculture's existence, fear of social stigma or a preference for remaining unidentified with sexuality or gender-based subcultures or communities. During the 19th and early 20th centuries gay culture was covert, often relying on secret symbols and codes woven into a predominantly straight society . Gay influence in early America was primarily limited to places of high culture, and association of gay men with opera, ballet, couture, other fine arts, began with wealthy homosexual men using the straight themes of these mediums to send their own messages. For example, in the heterocentric film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a musical number features Jane Russell singing "Anyone Here for Love" in a gym while muscled men dance around her, many critics theorize that the men dancing around Russell hold more interest in each other than with Russell. It was only after the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, gay male culture was publicly acknowledged for the first time. As with gay men, …show more content…

For example, in many cultures people who are attracted to people of the same sex, that is, those who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual are classed as a third gender along with those who would be classified as transgender. In the most western cultures there are different groups of transgender and transsexual people, such as groups for transsexual people who want sex reassignment surgery, heterosexual-only cross-dressers and Trans men's groups. Groups encompassing all transgender people, both trans men and trans women, have appeared in recent

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