Some members of the gay-rights muny are addg the letter 'K,' for "kk," to the ever-expandg acronym of inti.
Contents:
- 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
* 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.
K IS FOR ‘KK’: SOME GAY-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PH TO ADD LETTER TO EXPANDG LGBTQ ACRONYM
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’.
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. In the 1950s, we prosecuted Alan Turg for homosexual acts but now regnise this as such a terrible jtice that he has been given a posthumo royal pardon.