Pose on fx and its effect – A mother’s point of view How knowledgeable were you about the gay/trans community growing up? I wasn’t, unfortunately...But you gave me knowledge and helped me understand. What have you learned now? There is so much to it. It is bigger than what I thought I knew. To the language, to the different groups within the community. [ the ballroom community?] No – to being gay. Growing up, gay was gay [men and women] but there are so many different orientations. Because I don’t understand fully, please don’t take my words wrong but knowing that there’s—hmm I don’t know the word. The group who just loves, they love whoever loves them.
Pansexual? There we go. And then there’s the group [and I don’t want to call them a group] – but the ones where you say they/them/theirs. Like different pronouns? things like that? Right, so knowing all this and wondering, “does it apply to everyone?” You never know, so it’s so much to learn. It’s like having a book. After watching Pose, I learned from that one episode [Episode 2] that it is different, when you are transgender, the gay guys don’t like you or you aren’t in the group. So, there are like little groups within the group. [more on page 10]
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