With a name like GLBT but a community more like GLBTQQCPAR.... should the acronym change to something more broader but shorter to include more people of other gender, sex and sexual orientation or should we tea party* groups out and let them have their own community? At my uni they just use EQUAL as the broad name after other groups felt they were bing shut out. Any comments, no right or wrong answer just a discussion.:smilewave *(reference to disappointed GLBT groups who tried to join in with the Tea party movement but were shut out to instead strengthen the Log Cabin Republicans)
The club at my school that I affectionately call "the gay club" is actually named LGBTQS Pride Alliance. I honestly don't know about adding a ton of letters to the original acronym, but perhaps it could be changed to more general terms and be more inclusive? That may not have made any sense, sorry lol
Haha. Nice solution. I personally think LGBTQA is the most it should be stretched out. It encompasses basically everyone. I mean, it already includes any "Allies," who aren't really a part of the actual community of being gay/trans/etc. The only acronym that I might have the slightest problem with still is "Questioning," because then it churns up the question "How 'questioning' do you have to be?" Almost anyone could claim to be questioning their sexuality.
It doesn't even have to be an acronym I mean look at the human rights campaign, They are heavily involved in GLBT issues but they also support a wide variety of human rights around the world. Largely a feministic organization. Guess this is more of a hypothetical question than it is factually based. I was just always curious about how lazy (don't take it the wrong way) it came to the idea of just acronym. It became famous at least but ...everybody's doing it lol (I'm not a hipster)
I know that the girls may want to kill me for this, but I just don't understand why it can't be GBTISQ2. No offense girls, but lesbian is the same as gay. I've heard plenty of gay women call themselves gay, and frankly using gay and lesbian to separate basically to me is saying "oh let's segregate women from men, have them have their own word". I mean how is "gay" more a male term anyway?
Do we really have to change everything? I grew up with the term "LGBT." It's easy and all-encompassing.
Personally, I dont like the term "queer". Since it officially means weird, I dont like using it as an equivalent to "homosexual" as that would be saying we are all weird (which while many people think we are, I still dont like it)
I do think its kind of ridiculous that we keep on adding letters. Its almost impossible to include EVERYONE. That being said, we changed the name of our GSA at my college because some people were feeling left out. Its now called Unity GSA. Luckily, no one has complained about it so far. I also know that most GSAs around here have names like spectrum, equal and things like that.
