The party of "Let's not put people in categories, is... Putting people in categories then they accuse US of putting people in categories..."
Posted on 01/10/2013 1:21:43 PM PST by Borges
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If the gay-rights movement today seems to revolve around same-sex marriage, this generation is seeking something more radical: an upending of gender roles beyond the binary of male/female. The core question isn’t whom they love, but who they are — that is, identity as distinct from sexual orientation.
But what to call this movement? Whereas “gay and lesbian” was once used to lump together various sexual minorities — and more recently “L.G.B.T.” to include bisexual and transgender — the new vanguard wants a broader, more inclusive abbreviation. “Youth today do not define themselves on the spectrum of L.G.B.T.,” said Shane Windmeyer, a founder of Campus Pride, a national student advocacy group based in Charlotte, N.C.
Part of the solution has been to add more letters, and in recent years the post-post-post-gay-rights banner has gotten significantly longer, some might say unwieldy. The emerging rubric is “L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.,” which stands for different things, depending on whom you ask.
“Q” can mean “questioning” or “queer,” an umbrella term itself, formerly derogatory before it was appropriated by gay activists in the 1990s. “I” is for “intersex,” someone whose anatomy is not exclusively male or female. And “A” stands for “ally” (a friend of the cause) or “asexual,” characterized by the absence of sexual attraction.
It may be a mouthful, but it’s catching on, especially on liberal-arts campuses.
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I wish all LBGTQIA’s would just go MIA
The acronym will only get longer and more ridiculous as they add other freakshow categories.
Intersexed? Good grief. A birth defect is not a sexual identity. Then again, neither is a mental disorder ... and “transexual” has been included for a while.
SnakeDoc
I don't think they grow beyond a self-absorbed 14 year old.
That's the reason they get on peoples' nerves.
The world is going seriously to hell in the proverbial hand basket—but not to worry—we haven’t started granting marriage licenses to Man/dog relationships yet..............
Tune in next week for a possible update.
LGBTFOS
Why don’t they just use these letters: IARFU
Not GTH?
Who would have thought they would become even more ridiculous.
‘Perv’ is so much easier to remember.
I’ll stick with the accurate term of perverts..............
“I have no interest in hearing about their recreational uses for their private parts and their demands that everyone else celebrate same”
Agreed. Anyone who’s universe revolves around their gonads is broken and unbalanced.
I’d be okay with them if they’d STFU.
Would make a great Scrabble word though.
I’ve got a more wieldly phrase that covers all the bases: perverts.
I prefer to use the acronym from She, He, It and Transvestite or S.H.I.T.
The party of "Let's not put people in categories, is... Putting people in categories then they accuse US of putting people in categories..."
I thought the B stood for bestiality. Maybe they should make that part B squared.
Just homeschool or religious-school your kids, ban Hollyweird indoctrination shows like Parenthood, New Normal and Glee from your home, teach conservative and founding principles....and wait. Your kids will be miles ahead of the soulless ghouls being forged by the depraved evil culture.
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