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What's the point of including Q for "Questioning" in LGBTQIA?
When LGBTQIA means Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, QUEER, Intersex, Asexual and/or Ally, it makes sense to me.
But what possible use is including "questioning", as I see the acronym expanded in more than one place? (And Wikipedia notes 'Other variants may add a "U" for "unsure" [and/or] a "C" for "curious"', which come to the same thing.)
So far as I can tell, society is not now, and hopefully never will be, in a thought-control situation where merely wondering what one is requires the kind of legal and social support that knowing what one is--and that our identity isn't the heterosexual norm!--requires.
If this attitude is insensitive and/or ignorant, that why I'm posting, in order to be enlightened.
Sorry, ClonesDont..., I utterly miss your point. I say again that I cannot see how to omit "questioning" is to miss anyone who NEEDS support.
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- The White QueenLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
I personally find any addition beyond the standard LGBT(A) (Asexual) acronym to be utterly unnecessary and beyond the intention of the acronym. But that's just me I guess.
- ?Lv 48 years ago
Lol...I'm in my 40s. I've watched it go from gay to gay & lesbian to LGB to LGBT to LGBTA to LGTBA to LGBTQ&F to LGBTQA&F and not to LGBTQIA??? hahahaha
Sorry, it's just ridiculous. We're not a club. As a gay man, I have about as much in common with a transexual or an asexual as I do with a toaster oven.
