Honestly? Thanks for the disclaimer. Was really unsure how to feel about it at first. However… I agree. Want representation for everyone but the acronym does seem to change pretty frequently yet always leaves someone out somehow. I’ve honestly given up trying to keep track and just call everyone who isn’t straight and cis part of the “Rainbow Spectrum” or the “Rainbow Coalition”. I personally live on the corner of Magenta and Pink.
This is why I’ve always preferred the term GSRM: Gender, Sexual, and Romantic Minorities. It’s fully inclusive without ballooning out to an absurd size. I see no signs that it will see common use in the near future though.
Ironically I remember it being just GSM. I see where the R comes from though
if the ‘+’ includes every not mentioned gender/sexuality anyways, why can’t we just say ‘L+’?
Because then it doesn’t feel like equal representation for everyone. It feels like Lesbians are getting the most representation with everyone being an after thought. While lesbians are awesome, it does feel shitty for everyone else. That’s why so many additions have been made. It doesn’t feel representative of everyone or equal. Also why I throw the whole thing out and just call us all something else. No one gets specific representation but it goes back to the original meaning of the Pride flag. Every color in equal representation, showing the diversity of us all and how we all deserve to be seen and heard.
Good question though!
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:
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sexualities/genders are being abbreviated by single letters already and since the alphabet contains all letters, everyone is included
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‘people’ is completely neutral towards everyone as well
Wouldn’t be the first time a term of abuse got appropriated by its target group
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I tend to use “The Alphabet Mafia” when referring to everyone under the LGBT+ acronym
I’ll be honest that while I get that everybody wants representation, making the abbreviation so unwieldy is ruining the whole point of the abbreviation.
Personally I’m sticking with LGBT+, as it is easily memorable and effectively conveys the sentiment, even if it doesn’t catch everybody.
Doesn’t the + catch everybody?
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Two spirit and furry feel different from the rest tbh. I think they open queerness back up to views that it’s a choice or a learned behavior and not naturally human.
By the end of the century, it’ll be the full alphabet. I just say “queer” instead of going through the entire list. “They’re queer”, “It’s queer-friendly”, “that’s a show for queer folk”, “they’re a queer couple”, “so I swiped left on this queer woman yesterday…”, “that’s a queer-ally”, …
Just say queer.
Most people just use LGBTQ+. Give or take the Q and the +.
I do find mocking the acronym to be rather overdone considering it seems to be a non-issue within the community.
And I mean… LGBTQ+ folks can bicker about pointless stuff. Have you seen flag discourse? Bi lesbian discourse? The fact that we don’t argue about the acronym makes the cishets’ obsession with it kinda funny actually.
Fair enough! I just wanted to make a meme about queer culture that wasn’t too offensive. I figured poking fun at the acronym was harmless enough.
What if they just add “s” for straight just to fuck with people.
What if they just add “s” for straight just to fuck with people.
