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The New “Faggots” Are Trans

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Source Summary

Bayard Rustin is a civil rights icon of the African-American and gay civil rights movements. In 1986, Rustin gave a controversial speech entitled “The New ‘Niggers’ Are Gay,” and that speech is included as an essay in the book Time On Two Crosses: The Collected Writings Of Bayard Rustin. I believe it’s time to revisit Rustin’s concept of defining what the current litmus paper and barometer of social change is in 2014. In 1986, Rustin believed that African-Americans are no longer the litmus paper and barometer of social change. His conclusion was that gays were. In 2014, I believe trans people have become the litmus paper and barometer of social change. If you want to know whether people believe in democracy and ordinary equality today, if you want to know whether they are true democrats in the small “d” sense of the term — if you want to know whether

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“The New “Faggots” Are Trans” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning law and civil rights. Published in 2014 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is civil rights and anti-discrimination. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
81%
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
34%
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Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
8%
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History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
6%
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Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
6%

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Historical analysis
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Civil rights and anti-discrimination
100%

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How “Law and civil rights” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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13 2005

6 2006

43 2007

38 2008

23 2009

6 2010

106 2011

45 2012

125 2013

61 2014

21 2015

13 2016

15 2017

22 2018

6 2019

1 2021

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Autumn Sandeen

57 publications · 89 inbound sources/citations