TIME Magazine Asia March 27, 2017 Zurück Ausgabe

BEYOND HE OR SHE
In Park City, Utah, students are lining up at a local high school to get their locker assignments for the semester. Extracurricular clubs have set up tables to attract new members. It’s only midday, but the Gay-Straight Alliance, a group with outposts at about a quarter of American secondary schools, already has forty seven names on its sign-up sheet. Sitting behind piles of rainbow-colored paper cranes a hot fundraising item the group leaders are counting the different identity labels they’ve encountered. Sure, there’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender. But there are more. Way more. “There are people who are pan,” says seventeen year-old club president Grace Mason,meaning pansexual. There’s also aromantic, asexual, genderqueer, two-spirit and on and on.