I love the queers

[Kai]

I think "queer" works just fine, but some people are bothered by the word, so I usually just say "weird", sometimes with "gender-" as a suffix.

A lexicon can be useful but sometimes words just get in the way of communicate and overgeneralize our very individual experiences. I'd rather have someone tell me they're queer, and just get to know them over a period of time, than hear a description like "pansexual polyam genderqueer" pegging them into a box.

[Doktor Howl]

I think "queer" works just fine, but some people are bothered by the word, so I usually just say "weird", sometimes with "gender-" as a suffix.

A lexicon can be useful but sometimes words just get in the way of communicate and overgeneralize our very individual experiences. I'd rather have someone tell me they're queer, and just get to know them over a period of time, than hear a description like "pansexual polyam genderqueer" pegging them into a box.

Yep.  Endless divisions are just that:  divisions.

[Doktor Howl]

WHAT DID I DO TO YOUR FAMILY?

[Kai]

I think "queer" works just fine, but some people are bothered by the word, so I usually just say "weird", sometimes with "gender-" as a suffix.

A lexicon can be useful but sometimes words just get in the way of communicate and overgeneralize our very individual experiences. I'd rather have someone tell me they're queer, and just get to know them over a period of time, than hear a description like "pansexual polyam genderqueer" pegging them into a box.

Yep.  Endless divisions are just that:  divisions.

Funny how the wide range of sexuality going on in humans should be breaking down barriers but instead it just makes more boxes. Same with gender.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

People usually find out more about my sexuality as they get to know me, rather than first thing. I have never once had anyone introduced to me as, for instance, "Stacy the Lesbian" or "Harold the Heterosexual", and I return the favor by not introducing myself as "Nigel the Polyamorous Bisexual Buttfucker".

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

WHAT DID I DO TO YOUR FAMILY?

I'll think of something.

[NotPublished]

Thats why I just say I'm not gay I just like guys... Seems like a majority of people start treating you differently when they hear your 'different', makes me want to kill a motherfucker.  

What is with this gender/sexuality treatment?

eta: What is it with all of these seperate classifications also? Whats so important in having a label!

I also get annoyed when I'm introduced as Gay... I shot down the last person who did that.

[BabylonHoruv]

that's fabulous!

wait.  LGBT.....Q?

when did 'Q' get added?  and whats the technical distinction?

I kinda thought Q, as in Queer, stood for all four of those.

[BabylonHoruv]

I'm not sure about the intersex part. 

Questioning, if I understand correctly, is bisexual with a question mark.  But I may be crudely oversimplifying that. 

The only reason I even know the acronym is because I've partnered with LGBTQQIA serving organizations in my work.

I guess that makes me an A.   

I have a friend who is intersex.  It's like T, but T means you are the wrong gender, and generally switch, intersex means you are in between, not male or female.

[BabylonHoruv]

I think "queer" works just fine, but some people are bothered by the word, so I usually just say "weird", sometimes with "gender-" as a suffix.

A lexicon can be useful but sometimes words just get in the way of communicate and overgeneralize our very individual experiences. I'd rather have someone tell me they're queer, and just get to know them over a period of time, than hear a description like "pansexual polyam genderqueer" pegging them into a box.

If I want to sleep with them I'd like to know what box they're in.  Otherwise I figure it's gonna be more fun to get to know them as a person rather than a series of descriptors.

[Faust]

Personally it changes for me from hour to hour depending on who I see and the mood I'm in. Its confusing, not really a productive use of my time to think about it too much, besides the chase if far more fun if you don't get bogged down in the little details.

[Doktor Howl]

People usually find out more about my sexuality as they get to know me, rather than first thing. I have never once had anyone introduced to me as, for instance, "Stacy the Lesbian" or "Harold the Heterosexual", and I return the favor by not introducing myself as "Nigel the Polyamorous Bisexual Buttfucker".

I, on the other hand, proudly introduce myself as "Roger the crazed javelina-fucker."

Not my fault, they provoke me, sashaying around, you know how they do.

[Nast]

Personally it changes for me from hour to hour depending on who I see and the mood I'm in. Its confusing, not really a productive use of my time to think about it too much, besides the chase if far more fun if you don't get bogged down in the little details.

Mostly I think that people's self-perceptions of gender and sexuality are a great big snooze.

[Doktor Howl]

I also get annoyed when I'm introduced as Gay... I shot down the last person who did that.

?

Goddamn Aussies.

[NotPublished]

That damn Baron! Better not mess with me again....