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susi
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Username: etsi

Post Number: 5910
Registered: 11-2009
Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 10:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-orgbon/twospirit-people-gays-acc_b_1677851 .html
sure you can trust the government....just ask an indian.
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Mark A. Foster
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Username: markfoster

Post Number: 63
Registered: 2-2013
Posted on Monday, March 18, 2013 - 3:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post
Originally, among the Lakota Sioux, two-spirited people did not exactly refer to someone who was Lesbian or Gay. Those terms are really Western constructs imposed on an indigenous culture.

A closer concept (thought still not exact) is genderqueer:

http://genderqueerid.com/what-is-gq

Mark

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