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I was thinking along the same lines as ludosti, except I got lost around the letter i. Also, instead of transvestite I would have said transgender.
At college there was the LGBTTAA, so any acronym starting with the LGB makes me think of that.
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Same here, Enigmatic. I saw LGB, some Ts and some Qs, and immediately thought "Lesbian, gay, bisexual..."
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Yea, I'm with Shigosei and Enigmatic on this one, though with Metrosexual at the end. And questioning for one of the Q's. And Transgender for one of the T's. I'm lost on the U though.
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quote:Originally posted by johnsonweed: LGBTTHIQQUM
do you know what it stands for?
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Transvestite Hermaphrodite Intergender Queer Questioning is probably the first part of it. But the UM? umm...
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Maybe not "quality", but "questioning" or "quorum"?
And since jw's from Chicago, UM can be the University of Michigan?
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Transvestite, Hermaphrodite, Intrasexual, and Queer Quorum at the University of Michigan?
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I missed this stuff the first time I scanned through A) There is no thing as intrasexual. It's intersexed. B) I really hope there's nothing called Hermaphrodite anymore because that's not really a PC term.
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quote:Originally posted by kojabu: I missed this stuff the first time I scanned through A) There is no thing as intrasexual. It's intersexed. B) I really hope there's nothing called Hermaphrodite anymore because that's not really a PC term.
Sorry. I have a hard time keeping my politically correct terms in order. I keep calling my wheelchair-bound husband a "cripple". And the correct term of the moment is something like "Person with a disability who just happens to use a wheelchair, not that there's anything wrong with that".
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I'm pretty sure sndrake just heard a noise like a million voices crying out in pain and anguish.
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Well, I've heard the PC term for folks who are not "differently abled" is not, as you might suppose, "similarly abled", but "TAB" -- "temporarily able bodied".
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I think queer is one of those words that completely depends on the context and the speaker. I know I've heard my (gay) friends use it in a positive manner.
Edit: It's official - I think too slowly.
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quote:Originally posted by kojabu: Yay for you Tante. You get 2 points!
Two points! Whoo Hoo! (It'd have been three points if I tried it from outside of the three point arc)
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The use of the word queer is debatable within the LGBT community itself, which makes it kind of annoying to use when you want to identify as it.
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The first time I heard that it was chanted by a drag queen on a stage at a gay club that I was at with my gay twin brother. Never forget that experience; you haven't lived until you've seen a 300 pound man dressed in drag singing "redneck woman" at you. Posts: 40 | Registered: Sep 2005
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Yes. Gay people are interesting. Straight people are boring. That's why you fell asleep halfway through reading this pos-zzzzzzzzzzzzz... Posts: 2532 | Registered: Jul 2001
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Okey. Sorry, I get defensive about stuff like this because I'm not straight so it's not like I find gay people to be interesting merely because they're gay people.
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I had a whole joke about a gay display in a museum being the big draw and a straight display being dusty and lonely all typed up, but after re-reading it I realized it sounded way dirtier than I meant any of it, so I let the whole thing die a quick painless death...though not entirely silent.
"'Oh, you speak english?'
'No, just that first speech and this one explaining it.'
'You're kidding, right?'
'Que?'" -Family Guy, The Road to Rhode Island
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Of course we're a lot less boring than straight people. After all, we're simply fabulous.
And me and my gay friends use homo. Most of our straight friends won't, because they're afraid of offending us, but we really don't care.
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