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K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« on: February 02, 2018, 12:15:37 am »
K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
One prominent British gay journal calls for official acronym to be LGBTQQICAPF2K+
Washington Times, Feb 1, 2018, Bradford Richardson

The official acronym is now LGBTQQICAPF2K+ according to the magazine The Gay UK.   That stands for “Lesbian,” “Gay,” “Bisexual,” “Transgender,” “Queer,” “Questioning,” “Intersex,” “Curious,” “Asexual,” “Agender,” “Ally,” “Pansexual,” “Polysexual,” “Friends and family,” “Two-spirit” and “Kink.”

The Gay UK said the acronym has been growing since the 90s “out of a need to move away from the limiting ‘gay community’” and to “encompass any community that defines itself as anything but heterosexual or cisgender.”

But other members of the community aren’t on board with “kink.” Claire Heuchan, a self-described black radical feminist who blogs under the name Sister Outrider, said people with kinks can’t be in the club because they don’t face “any structural or systemic discrimination as a result of those proclivities.”


More: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/1/k-kink-new-letter-added-gay-rights-activists-lgbtq/
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2018, 12:17:27 am »
I'm a little afraid to google what half these terms mean.   :smokin:



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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2018, 12:18:25 am »
K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym

Awesome! I'll finally have a special interest group to belong to.
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2018, 12:34:47 am »
Polysexual


Does this involve parrots and crackers?
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2018, 12:47:59 am »
I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.  But I'll watch.
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2018, 12:59:37 am »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on February 02, 2018, 12:15:37 am
K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
One prominent British gay journal calls for official acronym to be LGBTQQICAPF2K+
Washington Times, Feb 1, 2018, Bradford Richardson

The official acronym is now LGBTQQICAPF2K+ according to the magazine The Gay UK.   That stands for “Lesbian,” “Gay,” “Bisexual,” “Transgender,” “Queer,” “Questioning,” “Intersex,” “Curious,” “Asexual,” “Agender,” “Ally,” “Pansexual,” “Polysexual,” “Friends and family,” “Two-spirit” and “Kink.”

The Gay UK said the acronym has been growing since the 90s “out of a need to move away from the limiting ‘gay community’” and to “encompass any community that defines itself as anything but heterosexual or cisgender.”

But other members of the community aren’t on board with “kink.” Claire Heuchan, a self-described black radical feminist who blogs under the name Sister Outrider, said people with kinks can’t be in the club because they don’t face “any structural or systemic discrimination as a result of those proclivities.”


More: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/1/k-kink-new-letter-added-gay-rights-activists-lgbtq/

I think that “K” casts too wide of a net to belong to that group.  There are few people that don’t have a kink or two.  Unless they are brain dead of course.
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2018, 01:02:03 am »
Why not just say what letters they don't want to use at this point?
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2018, 01:20:24 am »
At least one person I know isn't wound up and PC about this alphabet madness.  A lesbian acquaintance was talking about purchasing either a QLED or 4KHD TV.  I asked if that made her 'buy curious' and she thought it was funny.
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2018, 02:17:23 am »
What the hell is "intersex?" Wait, I don't want to know.
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2018, 02:19:25 am »
Quote from: austingirl on February 02, 2018, 02:17:23 am
What the hell is "intersex?" Wait, I don't want to know.
Okay, I looked it up. It means characteristics of both sexes- I guess the word hermaphrodite is too hard to spell.
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2018, 02:24:34 am »
Why stop at leather?  There's always crushed velour,  or even itchy corduroy.   
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2018, 02:32:08 am »
Quote from: austingirl on February 02, 2018, 02:19:25 am
Okay, I looked it up. It means characteristics of both sexes- I guess the word hermaphrodite is too hard to spell.


Yes and they're feverishly trying to ban the bigoted, hateful phrase 'go f yourself.'
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #13 on: February 02, 2018, 03:32:04 am »
How about LGBTQQWERTY, with QWERTY standing for people who are sexually attracted to computer keyboards or typewriters?
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #14 on: February 02, 2018, 03:40:33 am »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on February 02, 2018, 01:02:03 am
Why not just say what letters they don't want to use at this point?

Except for "A," the vowels seem to be getting a pass....
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2018, 04:28:24 am »
I propose our own letter for TBR...

The letter "J" for Jazz.

Category by itself.
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #16 on: February 02, 2018, 04:40:30 am »
Quote from: Sighlass on February 02, 2018, 04:28:24 am
I propose our own letter for TBR...

The letter "J" for Jazzhead.

Category by itself.

I thought that was the letter G?
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2018, 01:37:52 pm »
Quote from: austingirl on February 02, 2018, 02:17:23 am
What the hell is "intersex?" Wait, I don't want to know.
Those are people who are actually biologically neither male nor female (Kleinfelter syndrome, for example, where a person has three sex chromosomes, XXY). Either through DNA or documented hormonal disorders, they are the rare examples of people who don't conform to the male/female dichotomy.
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2018, 01:38:55 pm »
I will continue to stick to the phrase "alphabet soup lobby."
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #19 on: February 02, 2018, 01:40:33 pm »
Quote from: Sighlass on February 02, 2018, 04:28:24 am
I propose our own letter for TBR...

The letter "J" for Jazz.

Category by itself.

Well,  "J" does stands for Jesus, whose message of compassion is ignored by too damn many Christians. 
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #20 on: February 02, 2018, 01:44:40 pm »
Quote from: Jazzhead on February 02, 2018, 01:40:33 pm
Well,  "J" does stands for Jesus, whose message of compassion is ignored by too damn many Christians.

Because he no help with curveball.
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #21 on: February 02, 2018, 01:45:14 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on February 02, 2018, 01:38:55 pm
I will continue to stick to the phrase "alphabet soup lobby."

Yeah... I'll just stick with the word 'pervert'.
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« Reply #22 on: February 02, 2018, 01:46:21 pm »
Kewl!  Jazz compares himself with Jesus.  Today's lecture is gonna be great!
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #23 on: February 02, 2018, 01:54:21 pm »
I have been lobbying for years to have a B added to the acronym, for BALD.  Every day I wake up shamed by my baldness, and I suffer terrible humiliation from a society that glorifies hair.  But so far, nothing but crickets from the gay rights community.  They don't want me to play in their reindeer games.

So, how about it, LGBTQ people?  Why can't "bald" be a thing?  It, at least, is proven to be 100 percent genetic.  Where is the evidence that transgender is genetic?  Hmmm?  I demand my color in the rainbow.
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Re: K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym
« Reply #24 on: February 02, 2018, 02:04:27 pm »
Quote from: massadvj on February 02, 2018, 01:54:21 pm
I have been lobbying for years to have a B added to the acronym, for BALD.  Every day I wake up shamed by my baldness, and I suffer terrible humiliation from a society that glorifies hair.  But so far, nothing but crickets from the gay rights community.  They don't want me to play in their reindeer games.

So, how about it, LGBTQ people?  Why can't "bald" be a thing?  It, at least, is proven to be 100 percent genetic.  Where is the evidence that transgender is genetic?  Hmmm?  I demand my color in the rainbow.

I think that crowd would spell bald differently.
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