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The two-spirit contingent marches at San Francisco Pride in 2013. Two-spirit (also known as two spirit or occasionally twospirited) [a] is a contemporary pan-Indian umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities.
As they fight to reclaim their history, some in Montana’s Two-Spirit community are challenging a state law that defines sex as binary because it ‘infringes’ on their spiritual and cultural ...
In 1997, LaFortune continued his two spirit activism by writing a chapter in the book Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality which was acclaimed by scholars for its personal accounts and effort to change the anthropological narrative around two spirit people.
Two-Spirit is a modern umbrella term created at an Indigenous lesbian and gay conference in 1990 with the primary intent of replacing the offensive term "berdache", which had been, and in some quarters still is, the term used for gay and gender-variant Indigenous people by non-Native anthropologists. [37] "
Two-Spirit refers to a traditional role in Native American society, but not all indigenous queer people identify with the term.
The term has been culturally appropriated by non-Indigenous people.
Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. [1] [2] ... two-spirit fill a special niche in their communities. For example, ...
Same-sex sexual activity is legal, but same-sex unions are not recognized, and marriage has been banned by the tribal constitution since 2005. In 2022, a bill was introduced to repeal the ban and recognize same-sex marriage, [1] but has faced challenges on the reservation. [2] [3] In 2023 a second bill was introduced, and passed its initial ...