Citations:pomosexual

English citations of pomosexual

• 1997, Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimiel, “Queen & Schimel”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 20:

  […] We don't propose that 'pomosexual' replace LGBT&F. We're not interested in adding another new name to the slew we already have, though we acknowledge the usefulness of having one name by which all LGBT&Fs might be called. 'Pomosexual' references homosexuality even as it describes the community's outsiders, the queer queers who can't seem to stay put within a nice, simple identity. We coin the term to situate this book and its essays within and in relation to the LGBT&F community. It is in every way an artifact of, and in many ways a backlash toward, this community--or rather, to certain assumptions widely held within and/or about it, essentialist assumptions about what it means to be queer. We react against these assumptions in the same way that in the art world Postmodernism was a reaction against Modernism […]

• 2012 December 6, Fritz Klein, Karen Yescavage, Jonathan Alexander, Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others, Routledge, →ISBN, page 77:

  I would argue that pomosexual play is just as violent as the heterosocial system it wishes to subvert and that any pleasure gained is ultimately undermined by the violence that is recreated against the self.

• 2014 June 12, Judith S. Kaufman, The Meaning of Sexual Identity in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 11:

  Another girl differentiated an even greater deviation from the norm, the “pomosexual.” To her, pansexual assumes that there are more than two genders. Pomosexual (post-modern sexual) is choosing not to fit in a box.