I want to make it clear, too, that I count nazi apologists as nazis for this, too.
Nazi ideology revolves around racial superiority to the point of genocide. Itâs a political ideology that should be shamed out of existence.Â
this user absolutely and unequivocally hates Nazis and Nazi apologists
Jews, I stand with you. I’ll do anything I can manage to help you. I’m gonna vote, I’m gonna spread love, I’m gonna give whatever I can manage. I’m with you.
I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, âWAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!â before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. Iâm sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadnât previously considered.
Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didnât know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said âOh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.âÂ
She stared at him for a long time and then said âHow do you know Iâm from Brooklyn?â
And he said âYou have a Brooklyn accent.â
She said âI do?â and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said âI had no idea! The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn. I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did. So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.â
You are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. Thatâs it. Aces arenât LGBT.
I mean for one your forgetting a bit of that. Like the Q+.
Mod Bethany
The full acronym is LGBT.
I love me some ahistorical bullshit
The âfullâ acronym at one point was âGLâ, after lesbians fought against male homosexuality being the âfaceâ of the movement (i.e., the Alliance for Gay Artists (AGA), founded in 1982, was renamed the Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists shortly thereafter; and the Gay Activists Alliance never included âLesbianâ in their title).
The âfullâ acronym at another point was âLGBâ, only after bisexual activists campaigned fiercely to be included, and is often still not even included in acronyms
The âfullâ acronym at yet another point was âLGBTâ, only after trans activists campaigned fiercely to be included
Queer was added to the acronym after it was reclaimed and re-politicized by ACT UP off-shoot Queer Nation in the early 1990s. LGBTQ has been a thing since the 90s.
ONE Archives, which is the largest repository of LGBTQIA+ materials in the world and was founded by some of the principle members of the early (1950s-60s) homophile movement, which led to the gay rights movement post-Stonewall, uses the full acronym LGBTQ on their website and also freely uses the word âQueerâ interchangeably.
As of 2014, NOW (National Organization for Women) agreed to switch to use of the full LGBTQIA acronym, and it likely isnât the only large social rights organization to have done so
Many LGBTQ+ magazines use LGBTQ, including One (which has existed in some form since the 1950s) and The Advocate, use LGBTQ or LGBTQIA as the full acronym and regularly use âqueerâ as a phrase (and, in fact, some articles have welcomed asexual people and their narratives as part of the queer experience).
The acronym is constantly evolving. Itâs not static. To claim otherwise is blatant ignorance. The modern-day LGBTQ+ community is a result of decades of political activism, social inclusion, and community outreach. Itâs not a rigid structure that operates by a strict set of rules about who can and cannot join.
The full acronym is LGBT. Cishets donât belong in the community. Aces arenât inherently lgbt. We donât want our oppressors in our community.
âwe donât want our oppressors in our communityâÂ
as if trans people donât already have to deal with their oppressors (cis people) being in their community
as if LGBTQIA+ people of color donât have to deal with LGBTQIA+ white people in the community
as if LBTQIA+ women donât have to deal with GBTQIA+ men in the community
as if disabled LGBTQIA+ people donât have to deal with able-bodied LGBTQIA+ people in the community
the LGBTQIA+ community is huge and consists of people with multiply-overlapping identities and privileges. we all (unless youâre a cis, able-bodied, wealthy, white gay man) have to deal with a member of our oppressing class in the LGBTQIA+ community
ETA: âStraightnessâ is a position of power. Ace people, even if they are in heterosexual relationships, do not necessarily perform âstraightnessâ in ways that are acceptable to the Straight class.Â
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