There are advantages and disadvantages to such naming schemes.
I feel it is a disservice for the stated goals of equal civil rights, whichever disadvantaged group we are talking about, to willingly lower the visibility of the group. A group that has as its goal the acceptance of, say, TBLG people, should work to make it blatantly obvious that the said people are everywhere and act, look, sound, smell, and taste exactly the same as "normal" persons.
Circumspect human rights action sounds a bit doubtful to me.
However, if the goal of a campus LTGB group is to provide a safe social forum, then the circumspect name is quite appropriate. And this goal is not an unimportant one, either. A student coming to a university may well be encountering for the first time a possibility to explore non-heteronormative world. To cast such person right in the middle of a civil rights battle is very likely to be counterproductive. A soft easing into a self-identity is vital, and discretion is necessary in the early stages, at least.
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I feel it is a disservice for the stated goals of equal civil rights, whichever disadvantaged group we are talking about, to willingly lower the visibility of the group. A group that has as its goal the acceptance of, say, TBLG people, should work to make it blatantly obvious that the said people are everywhere and act, look, sound, smell, and taste exactly the same as "normal" persons.
Circumspect human rights action sounds a bit doubtful to me.
However, if the goal of a campus LTGB group is to provide a safe social forum, then the circumspect name is quite appropriate. And this goal is not an unimportant one, either. A student coming to a university may well be encountering for the first time a possibility to explore non-heteronormative world. To cast such person right in the middle of a civil rights battle is very likely to be counterproductive. A soft easing into a self-identity is vital, and discretion is necessary in the early stages, at least.