In the feature article “ Genderbashing: Sexuality, Gender, and the Regulation of Public Space,” the author, Viviane K. Namaste, argues about violence against sexual minorities and that how these acts violence and crimes are affected through public and private spaces (Namaste 421). Differences between gender and sexuality leads to many consequences including violence and crime and not many people know that there is any difference. In order to address these issues and problems, Viviane K. Namaste considers gender transgressions, transsexual and transgendered people, their public space and antiviolence activism. According to this article sexuality is a biological status and a way one organizes its sexual life. Sexuality is classified into three
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We never had a closet. Let’s face it, when you put on a dress and hit the world, you’re declaring what you are. . . . These children that are supposedly straight looking, they’re the ones getting bashed, so now [in the 1990s] they’re protesting. The girls were always getting their asses kicked. Its just a thing of who you are and what you are. (Enigma 35-6)
Activists say that there should not be gaybashing; instead, people should use genderbashing, which shows the difference between gender and sexuality (Namaste 423). On top of that, aggression has affected transsexual and transgender public spaces which are the areas full of sexual minorities. Gay male public spaces has gay bars and businesses; whereas, transsexual public spaces has transsexual and transvestite sex workers (Namaste 423). According to Pat Califa about differences between gay ghettoes and sex worker areas:
Gay ghettos operate differently than other type of sex zones. They are more likely to be residential districts for gay men as well as places where they can find entertainment. Although johns still enter gay ghettos in quest of pleasurable activities not available within nuclear family, they have better luck scoring if they camouflage themselves as residents of the area.
We never had a closet. Let’s face it, when you put on a dress and hit the world, you’re declaring what you are. . . . These children that are supposedly straight looking, they’re the ones getting bashed, so now [in the 1990s] they’re protesting. The girls were always getting their asses kicked. Its just a thing of who you are and what you are. (Enigma 35-6)
Activists say that there should not be gaybashing; instead, people should use genderbashing, which shows the difference between gender and sexuality (Namaste 423). On top of that, aggression has affected transsexual and transgender public spaces which are the areas full of sexual minorities. Gay male public spaces has gay bars and businesses; whereas, transsexual public spaces has transsexual and transvestite sex workers (Namaste 423). According to Pat Califa about differences between gay ghettoes and sex worker areas:
Gay ghettos operate differently than other type of sex zones. They are more likely to be residential districts for gay men as well as places where they can find entertainment. Although johns still enter gay ghettos in quest of pleasurable activities not available within nuclear family, they have better luck scoring if they camouflage themselves as residents of the area.