I love that you use the term QUILTBAG! It’s so much easier to write and say, and it’s also just plain cool.

seananmcguire:

uglyamerica:

seananmcguire:

It’s also a little out-dated, I think, but it’s the umbrella term I’m most comfortable with, at least currently.  I’m fond of it.

lgbt is four letters….the extra letters people add makes it more confusing

LGBT excludes members of our community both visually and through implication, which can shut them (us) out of conversations where they have every right to be, and makes it easier to say that those same members of our community don’t belong in spaces where they also have every right to be.

We’re never going to have an acronym that covers every possible label.  The closest we’ve ever come is “queer.”  But that doesn’t work for everyone, and so we quest on, boats beat back ceaselessly by the tide, seeking something that works.