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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.
Two-spirit (also two spirit or twospirit) refers to Native Americans who fulfill one of many mixed gender roles found traditionally among many North American indigenous groups. Traditionally the roles included wearing the clothing and performing the work of both male and female genders.
Gender nonconformity or gender variance is behavior or gender expression by an individual ... The term two-spirit was created in 1990 at the Indigenous lesbian and ...
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 ...
Two-Spirit refers to a traditional role in Native American society, but not all indigenous queer people identify with the term.
The nádleehi social and ceremonial role differs from other two-spirit roles in that it is specific to Diné culture and communities; other Nations that have roles for two-spirits – if they have them at all [4] – have names in their own languages, and roles and other details tend to be specific to those particular cultures. [1]
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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] "