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The author sometimes wonder the amount of intersection between esthetics and erotics of the people is populated by gender. There were even women who called themselves political lesbians, who slept only with men but identified as lesbians for political purposes. For some time now, men have been moving away from the old stereotype of gayness. And women have been rediscovering the joys of lipstick lesbianism. Certainly the idea isn't lost on transgendered teens, for whom passing is often not only a necessity but a litmus test of assimilation. Teenagers know that being gender-queer equals being weird and that being accepted means passing as 100boy or 100 4.9065e-305irl. For instance in October, 2002 Gwen Araujo, a transgendered 17-year-old, was found dead near Newark, California. Araujo had been sexually involved with a local man and, according to courtroom testimony, was later beaten, strangled, and left dead in a shallow grave after that man's friends forced her to reveal that she had male genitals.

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p72-72 1p; 1c