Courtney Act sat down for a revealing interview with Buzzfeed this week, chatting about her struggles with gender identity and how she was introduced to the term “genderqueer,” an expression she says she identified with long before she learned about it.“The gay community has got these sorts of unspoken guidelines about masculinity, like muscles, tans, and all of these sorts of things,” she said.Lack said she not only gave consent, but was the one initiating and that he was unaware she was intoxicated.The charges were subsequently dropped, but Lack received academic discipline as a result.
That undefined zone whereby you’re not sure where you two stand.
I try to define the nature of every friendship, every emotion, every aspect of & in my life.
In doing this, I can more simply weed out the things (people, mindsets, interests) that do not have a purpose in my life, the things that cannot be categorized. I see this happening more prominently in the way I categorize my relationships (romantic or platonic), though it does manage to seep its way into other areas of my life.
For journalists, it may be, but for those of us who had worked in advocacy or law enforcement, this description of something being in a gray area has been around all the time.” The term gray rape was used to describe the 1996 Brown University rape allegation involving students Adam Lack and Sara Klein.
According to Lack he had consensual sex with Klein.