K is for ‘Kink’: Some gay-rights activists push to add letter to expanding LGBTQ acronym

[Teh One Who Knocks]

One prominent British gay journal calls for official acronym to be LGBTQQICAPF2K+
By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times


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Some members of the gay-rights community are adding the letter ‘K,’ for “kink,” to the ever-expanding acronym of identities.

The official acronym is now LGBTQQICAPF2K+ according to the magazine The Gay UK. That stands for “Lesbian,” “Gay,” “Bisexual,” “Transgender,” “Queer,” “Questioning,” “Intersex,” “Curious,” “Asexual,” “Agender,” “Ally,” “Pansexual,” “Polysexual,” “Friends and family,” “Two-spirit” and “Kink.”

The Gay UK said the acronym has been growing since the 90s “out of a need to move away from the limiting ‘gay community’” and to “encompass any community that defines itself as anything but heterosexual or cisgender.”

But other members of the community aren’t on board with “kink.”

Claire Heuchan, a self-described black radical feminist who blogs under the name Sister Outrider, said people with kinks can’t be in the club because they don’t face “any structural or systemic discrimination as a result of those proclivities.”
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She said several identities listed in the acronym are just “straight people wishing to exceptionalise their heterosexuality.”
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Other members and observers of the LGBT+ community also voiced their displeasure with the addition.
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[Teh One Who Knocks]

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:-s

It's getting to the point? It's been ridiculous for a long time. :shakehead:

[Goofy]

Oh ffs :shakehead: I dont even know or care what LGBTQ stands for......... Lesbian Gay something something something......... cant we all just get along and do away with all this bullshit?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Oh ffs :shakehead: I dont even know or care what LGBTQ stands for......... Lesbian Gay something something something......... cant we all just get along and do away with all this bullshit?

:hater:

[Goofy]

:hater:
Yes, i hate all idiots :tup:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Yes, i hate all idiots :tup:

:triggered:

[Goofy]

You idiots do get triggered quite easily right enough :-k

[Hal-9000]

Eventually...the Q will cover everything.


said hal-9000 years ago.........

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Eventually...the Q will cover everything.


said hal-9000 years ago.........

https://i.imgur.com/FIuKThV.jpg

:-k

[Hal-9000]

Not that Q! :x

[Teh One Who Knocks]

You weren't specific :hand:

[Hal-9000]

I've already said they could just envelop the world by calling the group NH....not hetero.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

...NH...

https://i.imgur.com/02jqpXZ.jpg

:-k

[Hal-9000]

:facepalm:

Yes, that's where all of the LGBQT people live. In that state.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I win! :D

[Hal-9000]

Yes and your prize is a helmet and a harness, in case you need to cross the street :face:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Yes and your prize is a helmet and a harness, in case you need to cross the street :face:

:x

[Hal-9000]

:x

You can be part of the rainbow group too. LGBQT and A!

*angry people


:dance:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

You can be part of the rainbow group too. LGBQT and A!

*angry people


:dance:

:beatdown:

[Hal-9000]

New stripe on the flag...blood red


:lol:

[Muddy]

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This.

[Godfather]

Eventually...the Q will cover everything.


said hal-9000 years ago.........

You're actually right.

I was listening to a podcast recently and someone in that community got asked "all these fucking letters are so confusing, why can't we just have one word for non-straight people?" And the authority on these matters said "We do... it's Queer. Queer just basically encompasses everyone who doesn't just want to identify as straight."

Back to just my opinion... unfortunately it's not good enough for a lot of people who seem to want the lexicon to be bigger and more confusing as a source of ammunition for those who don't conform.

[lost in melb.]

I bet once these groups get what they want (defeat the enemy), they will immediately start infighting and our poor abused acronym will splinter like the Catholic Church did.

[RBP]

I bet once these groups get what they want (defeat the enemy), they will immediately start infighting and our poor abused acronym will splinter like the Catholic Church did.

My theory is that social causes will inherently reach a level of absurdity once they venture past the point of achieving their goals. The infrastructure and people invested either have to (a)dismantle a massive apparatus, (b)continue to use old arguments, or (c)make up new shit to be pissed off about. As we know, (a) never happens.

True for gay rights, true for feminism, true for minority civil rights.

[Pony]

Yep. They will never "Defeat the enemy". They cannot "win" because they would no longer be "victims".

[Hal-9000]

You're actually right.

I was listening to a podcast recently and someone in that community got asked "all these fucking letters are so confusing, why can't we just have one word for non-straight people?" And the authority on these matters said "We do... it's Queer. Queer just basically encompasses everyone who doesn't just want to identify as straight."

Back to just my opinion... unfortunately it's not good enough for a lot of people who seem to want the lexicon to be bigger and more confusing as a source of ammunition for those who don't conform.

I'm right...actually?

gee thanks, it happens :lol:

[lost in melb.]

My theory is that social causes will inherently reach a level of absurdity once they venture past the point of achieving their goals. The infrastructure and people invested either have to (a)dismantle a massive apparatus, (b)continue to use old arguments, or (c)make up new shit to be pissed off about. As we know, (a) never happens.

True for gay rights, true for feminism, true for minority civil rights.

Old habits die hard!

[RBP]

I'm right...actually?

gee thanks, it happens :lol:

I was shocked as well. :dunno: