LoHud.com – By Ben Rubin – The Journal News
Stony Point – “Friend of Dorothy,” “butch queen,” “femme,” “tranny.”
Avy Skolnik, from the New York City Anti-Violence Project, wrote the words on an easel pad as a group of about 20 educators called out the terms used by people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community to describe themselves.
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Each of those terms was used as slurs against members of the LGBT community, then later reappropriated by the community to describe itself, Skolnik said.