Which do you prefer: GLBT, LGBT, GLTB, BLTG, BGLT, or should we just chuck the alphabet soup, pick one collective word and be done with it? :)
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Chuck the soup. One word.. how about...hmmm..human
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just leave it glbt....I'm bi and we bi's always get looked down apon by the gays/lesbians (well most of them) so let those 2 precious groups fight out who gets the initials first ...lol
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I suppose I usually use LGBT, but there's not really a preference. I mean, does it really matter?
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I would like to G(et) a BLT... does that count? Also, I don't think just one word would cover it.
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I prefer the name my mother gave me on the day I was born. Classification leads to conflict. I am a member of the human race. Aside from the name I was given, and a few others like Son, brother, uncle or nephew, human being works just fine.
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I prefer the Groovy Folks. :) Honestly, I could not care less in which order the initials are placed.
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GLBT is the 'standard' format.
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I usually use LGBT. Ladies first, remember? :))
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My former housemates in Detroit referred to themselves and their "customers" as GLBTs, but it's so much more of a mouthful than "queer", which is the perfectly comfortable term used when I was growing up. "GLBT" is almost like work when it has to be repeated, like "African-American" instead of "black". I may just have to piss off a word Nazi every now and then by using a term they personally don't prefer but I like to keep it simple and not fall prey to people who would seek to choose my words for me. No offense intended to those who might fall under either category - they know what they are and how they feel. I tend to use actual first names with those with whom I am familiar, and that seems to work most of the time when I can figger out which first name to use. Jake, for instance, had to be "slave", "the maid" or "Desiree" when he was in French maid mode, although his real first name is Michael. Lauren's real first name is Carol, although she prefers to be called "goddess" but I have a problem with that. Simple works for me - queer. It's as good as the rest.
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The very first time I heard it, it was LGBT, so that's what I say now. Plus, my girlfriend is a lesbian, so she says it that way too. It rubs off. and while I agree that we should just do a way with the label, unfortunately, labels are a part of society. They are always going to be a part fo society, and it's our way of separating people into classifications. We seperate everything into classifications. Foods, animals, plants, and all other life forms (science, anyone?. So while the labels do indeed suck, I'd rather have this label than something truly horrendous.
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It is a bit stupdid just having "G" for gay men, because lesbians are gay women.
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Friends of Alice?
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I say "queer" myself, and cheerfully refer to myself as such. It covers everything, and no one has to get pissy over the LETTER ORDER. I mean, come ON! "It sounds like you think gay men are more important than lesbians!" "It looks like bi people are more important than the transgendered!" Get a life. Screw acronyms. We're here, we're queer, we don't need an acronym! ^_^
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I usually say GLBT because, for some reason, it is easier for me to type. I wish they would come up with something better than includes all lifestyles and was easier to type.
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GLBT....but who am i to say...i just found out what that meant a day ago and it was on this site...im none of them so....doesnt really matter.
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I've always heard it as GLBT. But to tell you the truth, I've never really liked the acronym. It lumps together a group of people so diverse that they aren't really a group at all. The lifestyles are so vastly different and the group is linked together not by a common orientation, only different than the mainstream. It's a lot like saying there are Americans and then there are the Native Americans, when in fact there are hundreds of seperate and unique tribes with sometimes nothing in common at all.
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Since none of the acronym parts apply to me, I do not care what method is used to refer to any or all of them ... They are just as human and as such, I will accept what ever "name" they choose for themselves, the same way I accept them for who & what they are.
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You forgot GLBTSA. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transexual, Straight Ally. I think a lot of folks already use gay as a sort of collective description, but it falls short of covering all of us.
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How about Galebit? Then it is pronouncable.
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I prefer BLT with fries
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