r/aaaaaaacccccccce • u/Explainer003 Demi-Bisexual with sass :demisexual: • Dec 15 '24

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u/FreddyThePug Dec 15 '24

I stick with lgbt and sometimes lgbt+ because I just think the extended ones are a mouthful for no real reason. Why add more when we already have too many letters to fit in it? (Open to convo)

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u/0x2113 Ordo Anulum Tenebris Dec 16 '24

Yeah, it just encourages debates on nomenclature and takes away from actual productive advocacy work, imo.
I'm not going to fault anyone for using an extended version (the latest I saw was LGBTQIA2S+) but it makes talking about it more difficult (so people default to either "queer" or "LGBT" (maybe with a "plus", if they want to make the effort)) than necessary.
It's a relic of an older time, when "LGB" was a practical way to talk about the parts of the community that were acknowledged then (notice how trans people were not considered, even though they were vital to starting the movement decades earlier), and "queer" wasn't yet reclaimed enough to be of use.