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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJanuary 25th, 2008
That’s the rule. No more than four letters.
It may be an unwritten rule, but the rule goes that acronyms can have no more than four letters. I know some people push five. But for all practical purposes, if you can’t fit an acronym into four letters, then you need to re-think your acronym.
GLBTTQQI? We need to nip this one in the bud. The English language hangs in the balance.
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Andrea D
January 25th, 2008
I’m all for trimming the alphabet soup to fewer letters I’m all for QUEER.
If you don’t like that one then find something you like better but until we stop being letters and start being a community then we’re never going to be able to stand up against the ones that are against us.
Besides if we were all letters then I’m a TLhClPSiSbGC (Transsexual, Left handed, Center left, Pagan, Straight identified, Soft-butch, Girl, Culinarian) this is just a sample I can go on until I use most of the english alphabet to describe myself a few times over.
Emily K
January 25th, 2008
Don’t forget “A”! That stands for “Ally” or “Asexual.”
Samantha Davis
January 25th, 2008
I totally agree with you, Jim.
I’m all for being part of the “A-Z” community, though.
In all seriousness, though. Why don’t we just start calling ourselves the GSA community? Gay to Straight Alliance.
Samantha Davis
January 25th, 2008
Oh, I just realized, maybe the whole “LGBTTQQI” thing is an attempt to keep being gay from being a “four letter word?”
William
January 28th, 2008
No more than four letters allowed? Perhaps that’s something that NARTH needs to think about.
Samantha Davis
January 29th, 2008
At least “NARTH” can be pronounced, unlike LGBT.
“Ellgeebeetee” or “Ellgeebeeteeteecewceweye”
werdna
January 29th, 2008
I like to pronounce it “ligbut.”
Ephilei
January 29th, 2008
Personally, I like “queer” more than even just LGBT. It’s simple and more personal. And Queer is infinitely flexible to include or stop including any sexual minority imaginable. Ten years ago, I don’t think we anticipated asexuals being added and ten years from now I predict another group will come for support and inclusion that are currently unknown, unorganized, or have no need of the queer community.
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