Comments on: An LGBT by any other acronym, etc

By: CanuckJacq

CanuckJacq — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:10:55 +0000

Oh! I like that one!

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By: CanuckJacq

CanuckJacq — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:09:45 +0000

Lettuce, gays, bacon, tomato, WIN

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:43:47 +0000

At a table quiz once that I organised we asked people to come up with alternatives to what LGBT stood for – funniest would win
We got
Lovely Girls Bum Touching
Lesbians Give Better Tongue
Lettuce, gays, bacon, tomato

By: CanuckJacq

CanuckJacq — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:32:47 +0000

Etc. lol
We could go with miscellaneous.

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:38:03 +0000

I remember when my uni wanted to rename the LGB society, they asked members for suggestions. Mine was BILGE standing for bis, lesbians, gays etc.
I am gutted to this day that it gained no traction.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:08:51 +0000

eh “person” is too vague and includes heterosexuals and men and women who define themselves within the binary definitions of men and women
found the article I was looking for and the term she advocated is “sex and gender diverse people”
http://www.thescavenger.net/glbsgdq/dont-call-me-transgender.html
The New Zealand Labour Party have a section called “rainbow labour” – I did read some of their literature referrring to Fa’aafafine so I wondered at the time if they decided they didn’t want to be LGBTF and decided rainbow was a better option

By: imaluce

imaluce — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:26:19 +0000

“Perhaps we need to just use one term?”
…How about “person”?
two-spirited???

By: Shikei

Shikei — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:23:48 +0000

When I was in UCD we used to call it the LGBTQXYZ society, cuz it seemed like every year there was something new being added on.

I like to just use gay, I don’t really see why lesbians need to be identified seperately from the male part of the community, generally. Queer is a nice umbrella term if you want to include everyone under the sun though

By: CanuckJacq

CanuckJacq — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:58:47 +0000

When I was reading up, I saw H show up, but it meant heterosexual. Interesting about HIV+ being included.
I don’t know if we’ll ever find a term everyone can agree on. As I said, I like “queer” but I’m aware plenty don’t. “Gay” is certainly used as a catch-all term, but many groups that are not homosexual men would feel excluded or unrepresented by that.
I vote for “Awesome”. Think of the news reports
“Today, 3 states approved measures legalising awesome marraige.”
or coming out
“Mom, I’m awesome.”

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:40:06 +0000

I’m not very fond of LGBTQ
I remember as well having debates about whether the USILGBTRO should USILGBTQRO and the UCDSULGBTRO should UCDSULGBTQRO
I came across LGBTH recently – H meaning HIV positive and I’ve seen also come accross LGBTTI and then some who want LGBTGID and then people who want to get rid of T and have a big long explanation of the term
Perhaps we need to just use one term?