Special foc on Gay/Lbian/Bisexual/Transgenr/Queer Issu
Contents:
- LGBTQIA+ — THIS GAY MAN DIDN’T ORR THIS BOWL OF ALPHABET SOUP
- IDAHOBIT … THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY … ALPHABET SOUP … “CONVERSN THERAPY” … HUGS
LGBTQIA+ — THIS GAY MAN DIDN’T ORR THIS BOWL OF ALPHABET SOUP
Gog over-board wh addg letters to the tradnal "GLBT (Gay/Lbian/Bi-sexual/Trans)" acronym to attempt to clu every non-homophobic possibily. GLBT alphabet soup n bee a very long, nonsensil acronym. It be nonsensil that is rndant. Queer, for example, is a rather broad term that has already been vered by the GLB part of the acronym. Trans-genr and transsexual are close enough to the same thg that 's safe to jt refer to those people as "trans". Qutng is ridiculo, bee don't take that long to figure out if you're gay or straight. Most people know their sexual orientatn at a very young age. Alli shouldn't be clud the acronym bee, as much as gays appreciate their support and openns, they simply aren't queer. The whole pot of the origal GLBT acronym is to have an all-clive term to scribe queer people, not their fan club. Intersex is too tailed for the acronym; as prevly stated, the very purpose of the GLBT acronym is to have a universal, simple term to refer to queer people. There n be more letters add, but the example of the GLBT alphabet soup is enough explanatn of the rndancy of this term." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * gay alphabet soup *
Once upon a time, Gay Pri Month was simple. The extra letters reprent people whose prence mak many gay men wonr, “When did they leap on our bandwagon? Plenty of other gay men repeatedly tell me that they, too, want to return their soup to the kchen.
Some appld this term, but I nsir the uglit homophobic slur — the N-word agast gays.
” Why would gay men embrace this self-huiatg label? There is no tersectn the Venn diagram of gay men who enjoy sex and people who do not.
IDAHOBIT … THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY … ALPHABET SOUP … “CONVERSN THERAPY” … HUGS
By: Allan Wallace What has been lled the Gay Alphabet Soup, LGBTQ pl any other letters that are sometim add, is the effort of an historilly margalized mory to be clive wh s own ranks. Those five letters have bee an umbrella term that veloped around the belief that cludg and anizg as many sexual… * gay alphabet soup *
Gay men never bated nor voted on this. Countls gay men are trated wh beg associated wh blogil mal who clare themselv transgenr, “intify” as femal and then trounce blogil femal at swimmg petns, track meets and other athletic ntts.
This disgts many gay men who also worry that when transgenrism generat to “We’re g for your kids” terrory, pats bullsey on our backs. We do not need the transgenr crowd to rerce among nervo parents the ugly stereotype that if you scratch a gay man, out pops a pedophile. Fortunately, only a small, rotten sliver of gay men ever abe ltle boys.
IDAHOBIT The Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) was created 2004 to draw attentn to the vlence and discrimatn experienced by lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex people and all other people wh diverse sexual orientatns, genr inti or exprsns, and sex characteristics. The date of 17 May was specifilly chosen to memorate… * gay alphabet soup *
But this fact blurs when normal gay men get shoehorned to the same “inty” wh the stars of Drag Queen Story Hour and the ant transgenr who crave immediate accs to 5- through 8-year-olds Florida classrooms. How long before some parent snaps, “They’re not gettg their nasty hands on my ltle Billy, ” storms to a gay bar wh a rifle and starts firg? But gay men should feel ee to part this giant, unregnizable, llective-inty vehicle.
This versn stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, qutng, tersex, asexual.
Gay: A man who is attracted to men, but often ed and embraced by women to scribe their same-sex sexual attractn as well. No homo: How ‘homosexual’ fad om e. Consir the word: “homosexual.
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” Its absence om the ialism LGBT is nspicuo, bee was the label most equently applied to gay men and lbians for several s durg the mid-20th century.
In 1869, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, an early advote of gay rights, ed the German word “homosexualät. ” Roughly two s later, English thor John Addgton Symonds clud a discsn of “homosexual stcts” his 1891 book, “A Problem Morn Ethics. ” Scholars ce this as the first e of the word “homosexual” English.
By the early s of the 20th century, “homosexual” had bee mon parlance among medil doctors and psychologists, but to no avail. As the historian John D’E not his book “Sexual Polics, Sexual Communi”: “Although the medil profsn strove om the 1880s onward to wrt power over the fate of homosexuals and lbians away om the crimal-jtice system, the attempt did not ially seem to benef gay dividuals. In effect, gay men and lbians went om beg sners or crimals to beg sick.