Há quem reclame que a sigla LGBTQ+ (lésbis, gays, bissexuais, transexuais e queers), adotada há alguns anos para substuir a "LGBT" tem muas letras. Mas alguns ativistas querem ixar a legenda ada mar (e mais
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- GAY HISTORY: WHY BE LGBT WHEN YOU CAN BE LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA? THE STORY OF AN LATG ACRONYM
- K IS FOR ‘KK’: SOME GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PH TO ADD LETTER TO EXPANDG LGBTQ ACRONYM
GAY HISTORY: WHY BE LGBT WHEN YOU CAN BE LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA? THE STORY OF AN LATG ACRONYM
Some members of the gay-rights muny are addg the letter 'K,' for "kk," to the ever-expandg acronym of inti. * lgbtqqicapf2k *
The acronym which has grown sce the 90s, out of a need to move away om the limg "gay muny" adds letters to enpass any muny that f self as anythg but heterosexual or cisgenr. G – gay. Gay lobby.
And to wonr whether some people the gay rights movement haven’t veered off urse. A ltle light googlg reveals that stands for ‘Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, tersex, asexual and genr-non-nformg’. A more sensible suggtn is ‘Glow’ — ‘gay, lbian or whatever’.
K IS FOR ‘KK’: SOME GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PH TO ADD LETTER TO EXPANDG LGBTQ ACRONYM
Peter Tatchell, who has done more for gay rights than almost anyone, is bewilred by the proliferatn of prehensible acronyms. Personally, I wonr if the trans movement isn’t now at the begng of an arc that gay rights and anti-racist mpaigns were at a generatn ago.