I get the criticism, but most countries are not in the term “The United Nations” either. It feels possible to make a grouped, organized label that supports minority sexuality groups and opposes bigotry.
Also why I throw the whole thing out and just call us all something else.
true equality would either be just ‘+’, without any letters, or including every letter, which seems impossible.
or like you said, something completely else. I personally like - hear me out - ‘alphabet people’. I understand that rightoids use this term as an insult so it isn’t usable, which is a shame, because apart from its negative connotation it has a few nice upsides:
sexualities/genders are being abbreviated by single letters already and since the alphabet contains all letters, everyone is included
‘people’ is completely neutral towards everyone as well
Because L+ is the only streaming service I’d pay for
Seriously though the history of lgbt as an acronym comes down to the fact that it began with gay men and lesbians organizing separately and bi and trans people being part of those organizations, but bisexual and trans groups began differentiating and separately organizing while we all began realizing we needed to work together more in order to actually change things.
if the ‘+’ includes every not mentioned gender/sexuality anyways, why can’t we just say ‘L+’?
IT folks solved this ages ago.
{A-Z}+
The second I have to use regular expressions I’m turning straight.
I think being fluent in regular expressions probably makes you involuntarily celebrate so orientation won’t matter.
wouldn’t that match STRAIGHT ? 🤔
“The Gays™” generally gets the point across.
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Naw, we just need to come up with words for different types of people that all start with L. Then we’ll be covered.
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That’s Jordan Peterson fans
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I get the criticism, but most countries are not in the term “The United Nations” either. It feels possible to make a grouped, organized label that supports minority sexuality groups and opposes bigotry.
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true equality would either be just ‘+’, without any letters, or including every letter, which seems impossible.
or like you said, something completely else. I personally like - hear me out - ‘alphabet people’. I understand that rightoids use this term as an insult so it isn’t usable, which is a shame, because apart from its negative connotation it has a few nice upsides:
sexualities/genders are being abbreviated by single letters already and since the alphabet contains all letters, everyone is included
‘people’ is completely neutral towards everyone as well
Wouldn’t be the first time a term of abuse got appropriated by its target group
Because L+ is the only streaming service I’d pay for
Seriously though the history of lgbt as an acronym comes down to the fact that it began with gay men and lesbians organizing separately and bi and trans people being part of those organizations, but bisexual and trans groups began differentiating and separately organizing while we all began realizing we needed to work together more in order to actually change things.