What is gender? What is sexuality? How do culture, race, and identity affect perceptions of these ideas? The modern "queer" or LGBTQ movement largely ignores these questions, and makes cultural assumptions in its portrayal of how people of the world identify themselves, relate to their cultures, and love one another. In this session we'll be debunking much of the misinformation, and discussing how to move towards language and theory that recognizes the diversity of human existence.