I love the queers

[Doktor Howl]

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

Of course, the Canadians also claim to have shot him down.

You gonna take that shit?

[NotPublished]

Knowing that fucker, he would of shot himself instead of being thanked by a Canadian.

[Doktor Howl]

Knowing that fucker, he would of shot himself instead of being thanked by a Canadian.

Bullshit.  His biceps were so huge, he couldn't possibly aim the gun at himself.

169% fact.

[MMIX]

I already apologised to Ippy for my unfunny response but I kind of stick to it from the pov that - allowing that the whole LGBT etc etc etc etc IS kind of funny as the letters in the acronym apparently breed out of control and it seems to get longer every week. That said, it does represent a very significant definition for the various sexual/gender minorities who are represented and who feel the need to be so represented in a world where we are constantly reminded that Het is the NORM and all the rest of us are deviants. The "Letter Soup" is a way for minorities within the non-het population to claim identity with the other deviants. If you are a "Normal" it may actually never have occurred to you that there are huge differences between the sexual/gender minorities represented under the LGBT &tc aegis. The assumption that eg Lesbians and Gay men have similar political goals or that their sexual identities even have similar underlying causation is just wrong and many heterosexuals can quite reasonably claim queer credentials as an issue of sexual practice if not sexual politics. The initials are a constant reminder to LGBTQ&tc groups that they need to be aware of difference within their organisations and not replace the straight hegemony of the "normal" world for a gay male hegemony in the LGBTQ realm.
But in the final analysis its like all areas relating to sex, its fluid, messy, and probably not something you would really want to discuss with your neighbours . . .  

So catching up on the last 2 pages . . .  NB LGBT&tc refers to associations of people so most of the comments on how dumb/lame/gay   it is are at best irrelevant and at worst  . . . still irrelevant - nobody would try to introduce you as "Mervyn my LGBTTQ&tc neighbour" not even straight neighbours are that dumb/lame/gay are they??

I admit I am oversensitive and I should probably have stayed out of the thread but I am also probably the only parent around here who when the kids were younger and still at home had fire alarms in the the kitchen, in the stairwell and over the letterbox in the front door because of the risk of firebombing. Hysterical over-reaction, you say? No, it was just a reasonable precaution for our kids.


Now back on-topic I want to bang a huge drum for the flash mob - stunning work, wish I had seen it and just a great bit of support for others - not a self-involved "what about US" thing but a "what about the workers" moment.

[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".

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.

[Vene]

This thread made me more than I probably should.

[Kai]

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.

Can stand for Questioning as well. It's a total alphabet soup, no getting around it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

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.

Can stand for Questioning as well. It's a total alphabet soup, no getting around it.

It could even stand for Quetzalcoatl.



Yep. That's the one I'm going with.

[Vene]

I'm a Quetzsexual

[NotPublished]

I'm joining!

[Doktor Howl]

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.

Can stand for Questioning as well. It's a total alphabet soup, no getting around it.

It could even stand for Quetzalcoatl.



Yep. That's the one I'm going with.

Better.  Chef would have wanted it that way.

[Kai]

Damn! You keep including more and more groups in our soup, and we'll all just be people!


....

Wait...

[Doktor Howl]

Damn! You keep including more and more groups in our soup, and we'll all just be people!


....

Wait...

My point exactly.

[Kai]

It's like the end of the movie In and Out, where the whole auditorium full of students get up and declare they are gay.



When everyone is gay, there's no more people to be bitching about people being gay. 

[MMIX]

It's like the end of the movie In and Out, where the whole auditorium full of students get up and declare they are gay.



When everyone is gay, there's no more people to be bitching about people being gay. 

rainbow mittens for Kai!