{"id":368,"date":"2005-10-22T00:41:45","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T07:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2008-01-10T09:42:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:42:49","slug":"circular-gay-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/22\/circular-gay-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Circular gay terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emo Phillips was standing before a judge…<\/p>\n

Judge, “Emo?”
\nEmo, “Yes.”
\nJudge, “Emo Phillips?”
\nEmo, “Yes.”
\nJudge, “You’re Emo Philips?”
\nEmo, “Well why don’t you just keep adding a word each time until your brain explodes!”<\/p>\n

I remember a day when there were were just “queers”. Then it was “lesbians and gays”. Then those crazy bisexuals had to jump on the bandwagon. Of course, if bisexuals were doing it, then the transsexu<\/s>genered folks were just steps behind. Now it’s those wile intersexed people! Pretty soon, it’ll go from being the “LGBTI community” to… queer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emo Phillips was standing before a judge… Judge, “Emo?” Emo, “Yes.” Judge, “Emo Phillips?” Emo, “Yes.” Judge, “You’re Emo Philips?” Emo, “Well why don’t you just keep adding a word each time until your brain explodes!” I remember a day when there were were just “queers”. Then it was “lesbians and gays”. Then those crazy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}