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Miss Magenta · Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 1451 Location: Ohio

LGBTQA, I believe?

The Q would stand for queer, and A either being asexual or ally. But, yeah. They're there.

I don't know about an I being there, though.
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 3053

ehhhhh

LGBTQA?

usually "queer" is used as a catch-all
or an insult, but it's being reclaimed

I think the Q might be for for "questioning"
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Leohan · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 706

Checked internet. Miss M. had it right. A is for Allies and Q is for Questioning. It does become more involving, but honestly LGBT is far more catchy...

lol · Joined: 16 Nov 2012 Posts: 135

I've seen LGBTQIQ and LGBTQIA around my campus. Looked them up, and apparently both are used but largely in academia. It's an attempt to be more inclusive.

LGBT is by far the most common of course.

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Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 5319

I'd like to think the A stands for asexual.
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Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 9328 Location: Bellingham, WA

Two As! Really I'm not sure you need an A for allies. If you're talking about the rights of the individuals, then once you've got all of the non-straight, transgendered, curious, and non-heteronormative people defined by their own letter then allies are people who already have the right to live how they want to live (straight, cissexual, etc).

I guess if you're not talking about for whom you're fighting for rights, but using it in some other context, it might make sense to include allies... but my anecdotal experience has always been that we just call ourselves allies of the LGBT community.
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Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 5319

Even outside the context of the acronym it seems like the ace community just gets overlooked by... nearly everybody.
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Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 9328 Location: Bellingham, WA

That's probably true. Our puritanical society is more concerned with judging your sex life than your lack of one. If you're putting things in other people's places, there's someone with an opinion about it. If you're not putting anything anywhere, what's to judge?
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Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 5319

The hardest part is to not roll your eyes or be rude when people consistently react in exactly the same way every time it's mentioned. Nobody knows anything about it, really, and it gets really tiring having to educate people every. single. time. It's not their fault, though. It just is.

I shudder to imagine trying to explain it to someone who actively wants to have sex with me. Hence chasing off all the hopefuls by being intimidating as hell.

So yeah, I get to avoid the worst of the judgment. I should just be grateful I don't have hate thrown at me. I think the hardest thing to be right now may be trans*. Not to say the rest is a cake walk, but damn, trans* people get a lot of shit.
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