The LGBTQIA-community

[mojotastic]

There's some people saying we should add a k to lgbtiq. K for kink

https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/...mpression=true

I don't know honestly. I mean being kinky is hardly oppressed, just some people do it and some people don't. It's not like we need to add a J for Jigsaw puzzles or something.

If we had to add more letters I would consider s for sex workers. After all, the first two people who did the most at stonewall were sex workers and like us they have to deal with a lot of the stigma we have had to (being seen as dirty, breaking up families, spreading disease etc). Plus lgbtiqs sounds better. More pluralistic.

What would you add?

BDSM for **** n giggles

[Vegan Daddy]

Wouldn't kink include most of the human population? Everybody has a kink.

"I'm lgbtiaqk because I like to suck on toes and get bull whipped!"

[numberthirty]

Wouldn't kink include most of the human population? Everybody has a kink.

"I'm lgbtiaqk because I like to suck on toes and get bull whipped!"

Confused, indeed.

I can't really see how if you took an "Us"(LGBT) and "Them"(Straight Folks) approach, you would decide where the folks in question would fit.

[PaulBullion]

Like queer? I think queer is a good umbrella term.

Works for me.

It's settled, then.

[PaulBullion]

Wouldn't kink include most of the human population? Everybody has a kink.

"I'm lgbtiaqk because I like to suck on toes and get bull whipped!"

Would be easier to just say "everybody except Mike Pence."

[MasterOfMagnetism]

I've said before that I don't really feel any kinship with the word "queer", although it doesn't offend me. I know some people have said in the past that they explicitly don't like the word, but lately I've increasingly felt like we should start using that word again as a catch-all term for everyone who isn't a heterosexual cisgender person.

[mojotastic]

I've said before that I don't really feel any kinship with the word "queer", although it doesn't offend me. I know some people have said in the past that they explicitly don't like the word, but lately I've increasingly felt like we should start using that word again as a catch-all term for everyone who isn't a heterosexual cisgender person.

Is going to be hard to normalize the word queer, i dont think the B will bother, i can see some resistance from the G and L,the T is more controversial and i dont know how they would react.

[Star_Jammer]

Some vowels.

Lagibetiqs? Ligebatiqs? Ligobitiqs? Legobatiqs (with blocks)...makes it easier to pronounce.

Haha.

The "acronym" is getting crowded.

What about "F" for the Furries out there? B or P for Bronies? What about people really into waifu's/loli's? Traps? Or are all of these considered K's?

[Charmed]

I say "the queer community" around my friend who is comfortable with the word. I also say "the community" or LGBT+. The plus encompasses the other parts of the acronym and anything else.

[Starter Set]

LGBT+

Hmm, "LGBT Plus", doesn't sound too bad actually.

[NewMutant]

When I was younger I think I was a bit fearful of what queer meant/was, but it was really just a lack of education on gay culture in general. Now I tend to identity as queer individually and queer community (instead of the alphabet). My father was shocked that I used the word, for his generation it was similar to saying the "f" word used to describe (typically negatively) gays. I think its a great word and should be embraced warmly and used positively to take away the power/hate that was once associated with it.

[Rob Allen]

I thought QUILTBAG might catch on but it hasn't. (Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transsexual), Bisexual, Asexual, and/or Gay/Genderqueer)

And, people have lost their jobs and/or custody of their children because of their kinks.

[Silvermoth]

Anyone watching the Winter Olympics? The opening ceremony was incredible and I am glad to see Adam Rippon and Gus Kenworthy are enjoying themselves

[Silvermoth]

Drag race spoilers

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well milk had to go. She had the worst attitude, no idea where that came from.

Can't wait for the next episode. I hope chichi doesn't go yet. I feel so sorry for her

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[legion_quest]

Haven't posted in this thread for a while, but on seeing it being discussed again, I DETEST the Q word and if anyone called me it, they'd be likely to get a punch.

It's not reclaimed in the UK, at least not where I am. It's an insult, and a reaffirming that LGBT isnt 'normal' by very definition of the word.