Gay men also use it, which can be confusing. Used to be a derogatory term now taken back and an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual and/or not cisgender. T: Transgender: People who have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex. G: Gay: Men who are romantically or sexually attracted to men.ī: Bisexual: A person is romantically or sexually attracted to either sex. Women who are romantically or sexually attracted to women. Before they knew it, the LGBT term became LGBTQQIP2SAA and is continuing to grow. The brain children that decided to add extra letters to the acronym never anticipated how many more letters would be needed.
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Strangely enough trying to include everyone wasn’t solved by this, and what was intended as a great solution became the cause of many more problems. So, the “Elder Council” held a board meeting and came up with the idea to simply add more letters to the LGBT term in order to keep everyone smiling.
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An increasing number of people said that they were having trouble defining themselves on the rainbow of sexualities represented by the LGBT acronym. Once upon a time, in a glittery land, not so long ago, there was a tribe of people who named themselves the LGBT community, and they were all relatively happy.Īs acronyms go it was a very effective one, receiving widespread acceptance, easy to remember and succinctly covering the spectrum of sexual orientations (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender)Īs helpful people started to weigh in on the term, it started to take heat for not being inclusive enough.