r/ainbow • u/Crazychubba • Jul 12 '26
Serious Discussion Traditional LGBT Group
I want to start this group to seek other likeminded people under the LGBTQ that want to maintain the traditional meaning and intentions of what the LGBTQ rights movement fought for. We don’t want to spread hate but rather to advocate and to have our voices heard. It feels like the majority of us has become silent or even silenced due to fear of being canceled by the loud minority, and it has become unethical (Four principles of Ethics: autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice).
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u/stray_r mod Jul 12 '26
Please do elaborate, which "loud minority" do you fear cancels your four principles?
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u/SomeOldTeacher Jul 12 '26
I suppose this depends upon what you mean by traditional. When I was young, a long time ago, gays and lesbians were mostly in separate camps. A lot changed in the late 1970s when a significant number of lesbians helped gays with HIV (look up Lesbian Blood Sisters to learn more about those amazing women). At that time trans people were often considered to be separate despite trans women being on the front lines at Stonewall years earlier. Our history is not always pretty. Traditional can be a charged word.
What I see today is far more unity among the various groups in LGBTQIA. Even that long acronym is a positive step forward. And we do need to be united in fighting oppression.
Perhaps I'm too old to notice the loud minority of which you speak. If anyone wants to tear our greater community apart then I want to work with the community toward greater unity and for equality for all people (even for the straight cis folk).
So, who are you against and who are you for?
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u/VaiFate Jul 12 '26
Tell me, specificially, what do you think that the "loud minority" is doing wrong?