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.
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. 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.