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[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (35 children)

we will keep including people until you choke on it, bigot

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (34 children)

Honestly, including people is why i prefer just saying queer over using acronyms. It's completely open-ended, it doesn't create a hierachy based on who gets named first and who ends up with one of the slots behind the LGBT that may or may not be included by a given speaker, it's easy to use, it doesn't shoehorn people into rigid categories and makes it easy to fit in for people who are questioning or have complex identities - and it pisses off the exact type of bourgousified, reactionary, assimilationist, racist, mysogynist, transphobic, biphobic cis gays that the farthead you're replying to refers to when they bring up how supposedly "gay people shit talk" all of this.

[–] DADDYCHILL@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (26 children)

disagree, queer is not all encompassing. if you dont identify as queer but you still want to identify with the community the acronym is still the best descriptor. as for the order, i do support updating it by putting trans first and pushing bisexuals down the list in favor of pansexuals.

[–] Tastysnack@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Why would you change the order? It implies some level of arbitary importance to certain unique struggles over others which I don't think is healthy while we all share the same acronym.

Also L should stay at the front because that relates more to gay history and the allyship shown by women during the AIDS epidemic to provide blood to sufferers and L comes first to honor that.

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