LGBTT2IQQA

[Benjamin Barrett]

It's the English that seemed pretty recent to me, but maybe it was the
concept as you say. BB

On May 21, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:

>
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com
> > wrote:
>>
>> I've seen two-spirit in connection with Native Americans in the US. I
>> don't know if it's used outside that context. Wikipedia has it as
>> well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_spirit, which says it
>> originated in 1990. That seems pretty recent to me. BB
>
> To be precise, the Wikipedia article asserts 1990 origin of the
> English "two-spirit", not of its etymon:
>
>>>>>
>
> "Two-spirit" originated in Winnipeg, Canada in 1990 during the third
> annual intertribal Native American/First Nations gay and lesbian
> conference. It is a calque of the Ojibwa phrase niizh manidoowag (two
> spirits). It was chosen to distance Native/First Nations people from
> non-natives as well as from the words "berdache" and "gay."[6]
>
> <<<<
>
> --
> Mark Mandel

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