![]() ![]() ![]() Push further still and you’ll find a particular conference, held in Canada in 1990, which voted to adopt the term. If you push on this terminology you’ll be told that it was invented by Native Americans as a way to self-define and take control of their own culture. Regardless, the implications and the cultural usage of the term amounts to a differentiation in the way Native and other indigenous peoples think about and describe homosexuality, gender and minority sexual identities. The most crude explanation for the term is something like ‘a gay Native American’, but it has a much more complex and subtle origin. If you have encountered any academic discussion of LGBT topics in North America, you will almost certainly have heard the phrase ‘Two-Spirit’ - sometimes included in the acronym as ‘LGBTQ2S’, or some variant thereof. ![]()
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