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How shall we fix the Y!A LGBT section?

So I've been typing sample question with certain key words in them, just to see where Yahoo Answers puts them. All I typed was "Question [word]" to see where it would put those specific words.

Here are the words I typed that got put into the LGBT category:

"Incest"

"Pedophilia"

"Immoral"

"Fetish"

"Polygamy"*

Yahoo Answers is associating the LGBT community with incest, pedophilia, and immorality, and implying that it is a fetish (or that only we are kinky).

So what shall we do about this? Besides the fact that it's insulting, it's also tedious to constantly see non-LGBT questions put into this section.

Also: What categories would you suggest the above words be put into instead?

Update:

Yahoo, are you ever going to put this with the open questions?

Update 2:

I made a suggestion to Y!A that they fix this. Support the answer here: http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=answers&...

Hopefully if they have enough people supporting that, they'll change it.

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