Identity explored during LGBT event

daily49er.com – By Amy Paradise –

Diversity Week’s final event, “Queer Transgender Identities”, shed light on the common misconceptions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities and gave Cal State Long Beach students a better understanding of what those terms mean.
According to Jennifer Reed, assistant professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the idea of what gender means is becoming more complex. Since new terms such as queer, transgender and bisexual have emerged in society over the last 20 years.