Comments on: “Gay Community” http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2007/02/07/gay-community/ I facilitate postmodern learning research and practice. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:19:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jeffrey http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2007/02/07/gay-community/#comment-21 Jeffrey Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:12:04 +0000 http://silenceandvoice.com/2007/02/07/gay-community/#comment-21 Ernie, good points. You mentioned the perception of a shared sense of "justice inequalities" along with "the same difficult growing up process." While there may be similarities, I do not think they are the same, especially given socioeconomic issues, geographical dispersion, levels of education, etc. I agree with your conclusion "that necessarily does not a community make." This makes me wonder again, is this "community" something that is manufactured for its own sake? To feel a sense of belonging to something (like misery loves company)? Perhaps it is so that there is a perception that if two people (etc.) suffered in a similar way then there is some shared experience? Is anybody else asking this question, that about "What does the 'gay community' mean?" Ernie, good points. You mentioned the perception of a shared sense of “justice inequalities” along with “the same difficult growing up process.” While there may be similarities, I do not think they are the same, especially given socioeconomic issues, geographical dispersion, levels of education, etc. I agree with your conclusion “that necessarily does not a community make.”

This makes me wonder again, is this “community” something that is manufactured for its own sake? To feel a sense of belonging to something (like misery loves company)? Perhaps it is so that there is a perception that if two people (etc.) suffered in a similar way then there is some shared experience?

Is anybody else asking this question, that about “What does the ‘gay community’ mean?”

]]> By: Ernie http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2007/02/07/gay-community/#comment-20 Ernie Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:33:34 +0000 http://silenceandvoice.com/2007/02/07/gay-community/#comment-20 Hey Jeffrey. As someone who has gone to his share of LGBT Pride parades, I think most people try to get instant community because of we're supposed to share the same justice inequalities and have the same difficult growing up process. And I'm sure some of us probably had some shitty childhoods, but that necessarily does not a community make. Hey Jeffrey. As someone who has gone to his share of LGBT Pride parades, I think most people try to get instant community because of we’re supposed to share the same justice inequalities and have the same difficult growing up process. And I’m sure some of us probably had some shitty childhoods, but that necessarily does not a community make.

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