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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2009-11-16

[Because of what's coming up on Friday, I'm going to lean on a theme this week.]

"Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersex are natural persons irrespective of their masculine and feminine gender and they have the right to exercise their rights and live an independent life in society." -- the Supreme Court of Nepal, ordering that country's government to enact laws to guarantee the rights of gay LBGT people, 2007-12-21

[And yes, I'll permit myself the obvious editorial comment here. That's the entire 'agenda' right there in a nutshell: that we're people and deserve to enjoy the same protections of our human rights as other people do, and to not have governments or societies sanction discrimination against us merely for being or appearing G, B, L, T, I, or Q.]

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posted by [identity profile] stori-lundi.livejournal.com at 11:02am on 2009-11-16
The I and Q are new to me. I don't know what I stands for but I assume Q is for queer. How is queer different than L/G? I've always thought that queer referred to L/G.
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posted by [identity profile] selki.livejournal.com at 12:16pm on 2009-11-16
I'm pretty sure i=intersex, as in the Nepali Supreme Court statement. Biological characteristics of more than one gender.

I think queer is often being used more broadly these days.
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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 06:48pm on 2009-11-16
I = intersex, yes. I've seen Q expanded as both "queer" and "questioning", and occasionally see two Qs in the alphabet soup, which I presume means both.

I'm not entirely certain what all the nuances of "queer" are when stuck on the end of TLBGetc.; I think of it as meaning B, G, L, and/or T, in which case the Q would make the other four letters redundant, but it may be that others use the word a little differently than I do.
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posted by [personal profile] sunflowerp at 05:55am on 2009-11-17
I use "queer" in three (related) ways: a) as a synonym/alternative for the alphabet soup (which becomes more unwieldy the more it explicitly includes - but which privileges the explicitly-included at the expense of the implicit), b) as an umbrella term that emphasizes solidarity ("your flavor of queer may not be my flavor of queer, but we are both queer" kind of thing), and, c) because I'm several sorts of queer (for some of which, the alphabet-soup terms are more convenient than descriptive; for others, inclusion in the soup is controversial) and prefer using a single term that includes 'em all, to having to list them.

When it's included in a "long" alphabet soup, I see it as an inclusion of (or concession to, depending how it's done/context) those who prefer to identify as queer, just as "SSL" in a "long soup" recognizes those who prefer to identify as "same-sex-loving" rather than as G/L. In either instance, there's a technical redundancy, but I don't think it's necessary that each letter refer to something wholly discrete from the other letters.

And, in re the post itself: The Nepalese Supreme Court gets it. Yay!

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