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[Erik]

Is there an accepted order in which the letters GLBT (sometimes Q & A) should be? I've seen LGBT, LGTB, GLBT BGLT, and a host of other versions. Just for fun I once brought BLTG (Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, and Guacamole) sandwiches to a church pot-luck dinner.

[Jennifer5]

Personally, I have no idea. I got used to hearing GLBT, so that's how I say it, I don't know if there's a certain way it's supposed to be though.:confused:

[RedneckDyke]

I like to say "on the team" or "in the tribe". Maybe we could borrow mob language from Tony Soprano and say "this thing of ours". (-:

[Alecto]

I like GLBT, but that's cause sometimes I like to pronounce it "gilbert". Also, because of the whole alphabet soup thing (you didn't include Intersex, Asexual, Allies, Questioning, Queer etc etc), I'll sometimes just use queer (with a little "q"; big Q has a different definition for me).

[pnggrad79]

I always just say, "They're family". It comes from the fact that a lot of glbt people have been kicked out their families for being gay, and that those same people often seek and create families of choice who are often in the same boat they are. If a person is family, they understand where you've been, the struggles you have had because they have been there, done that, too.:rolleyes:

[antiochian]

This acronym is going to be five miles long eventually. I wish we could find a better label for our community. I've also seen an extra T added to stand for Native American "Two-Spirit."

[Alecto]

Some folks have found that better label and go with "queer". Ever-increasing in popularity. :)

Failing that, we'll have all sterile-sounding academia jarble like "nonheteronormative" or somesuch. ::sigh::

[HarmlessEccentric]

I like GBLT, because then I can pronounce it "giblet."

[BenL]

Failing that, we'll have all sterile-sounding academia jarble like "nonheteronormative" or somesuch. ::sigh::

Some in the transgender world have taken to using the term "cisgender" when talking about people who are not trans, in other words whose bodies and gender identity match. Previously, the terms used were bio-man or bio-woman or genetic male or genetic female. But we all have biology and genetics, trans or not, so that didn't make sense. Apparently "cis" is a scientific prefix for "same," although I may be mis-remembering. Sorry, I don't have time right now to research it.

And trans people often scramble the letters to put T first, as in TGLB etc.

All depends on your perspective.