Can we come up with a better term than "GLBT?"

[Pab Sungenis]

It always sounds like "Gay, Lesbian, Bacon, and Tomato" to me.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. How about LGBT? I've seen that other places.

[orestes]

2. Lesbian, Gay, Bacon, Tomato?

Don't think that solves the issue that the OP has ;)

[readmoreoften]

3. I take offense at your comment.

It's gay, lettuce, bacon, and tomato. Or maybe even: Grey Poupon, lettuce, bacon, and tomato.

[orestes]

4. How does one tell gay lettuce apart from straight lettuce?

That's a bit of a head scratcher.

[readmoreoften]

6. I meant: gay, lettuce, bacon, and tomato.

But really: it's lettuce, goat cheese, bacon, and tomato.

[readmoreoften]

7. Stop, I'm making me hungry.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. 5 Inch Pumps.

Gay Lettuce is always a bit flamboyant, and just doesn't seem to understand the concept of "sensible shoes". ;-)

[LostinVA]

29. Duh -- Iceberg is straight lettuce

[Jamastiene]

31. The gay lettuce just has more pizzazz.

Because when you got it, you got it.
:P

[Lyric]

38. At school, we use BiGLTQ

[davidinalameda]

46. I always loved Mountainqueers!

WVU Class of 93 here

[bluedawg12]

5. Oh Noes! The "G" stands for "Gay?" Isn't this a cooking forum?

Gravey, lettuce, bacon and tomato?

Eeep.

:rofl:

[RedLetterRev]

9. Gravy is my favorite vegetable!

I AM suthren, aftah awl!

[bluedawg12]

10. ....

:rofl:

[mondo joe]

11. Don't forget the avocado. (BLAT) nt

[KitchenWitch]

12. I am glad I am not the only one who thought of avocado!

:P

[mondo joe]

13. Oh, the BLAT is divine!

Seriously.

[KitchenWitch]

14. I wholeheartedly agree!

The BLAT is one of the things that makes life worth living IMHO!

[bluedawg12]

18. That looks really tasty.

You're killing me. :9

[mondo joe]

20. That was my father's day request this last year. I wanted the kids to wash my car

with me, and then have BLATS.

Best father's day ever.

[Jamastiene]

32. OMG, I am SO HUNGRY now.

:bounce: :loveya:

[pepperbear]

15. OMG! Wrote a post about this very thing a while ago......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1785853

[LeftCoast]

16. Personally, I like the word 'queer'

I know a lot of people don't care for it, but to me it's a word that encompasses all of the lgbt community that we can take back from the homophobes who use it as a weapon against us.

[Smarmie Doofus]

21. No. Here's how Wordsmyth.com defines Queer:

>>>>>>1. strange, unusual, or unexpected; eccentric; odd.
Example He has queer ideas about life.
Synonyms singular (3) , offbeat , strange (1) , weird (1) , odd (1) , funny (3) , peculiar (1) , eccentric (1)





We are *none* of these things; based on our * sexuality *, anyway.That's the whole *freaking* point: there's no reason to believe... and plenty of reason NOT to believe.... that homosexuality, bisexuality or transgenderism is " strange, unusuaual, unexpected, eccentric or odd."

On the contrary, the evidence indicates that the above orientations are commonplace, usual, expected, mainstream and ordinary.

"Queer" is therefore based on a lie.... created by a majority to stigmatize a minority.

[LeftCoast]

22. There are lots of definitions for the word

But, as I said...lots of people don't care for using it.

[readmoreoften]

41. Queer is used in academic settings because "Gay" has culturally specific meanings.

It's also trans exclusive. In other words, you can't really study call eunuchs in Byzantium "gay" and calling Native American "nadle" shaman and warriors "gay" is really problematic cultural appropriation.

Reducing us to "sexuality" is problematic in itself as well. Gilgamesh clearly loved Enkidu as a partner, but there is no evidence of "sexuality". Likewise focusing on "sexuality" undermines transgender history, which is way richer than "same-sex" history because the history of the body and sexuation itself is very complicated. Are hijras a part of 'gay' history? It's hard to say.

On the other hand, focusing on "love, eros, and coupling" desexualizes us as well. We might choose include asexual "romantic friendships" of women in 19th century England to lesbian history, but exclude 20th century pansexual orgies.

I agree that "queer" is a questionable term, but for me its because the word redefines heteronormativity as the norm even while celebrating our outsider status.

[Ioo]

17. "Gays and Friends"

[bluedawg12]

19. Galbians? Queetrangalbians?

Personally, I think "gay" for everyone. It's festive.

...and easy to spell.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

23. Works For Me, Bluedawg!

:)

[bluedawg12]

26. ...

:fistbump:

[Jamastiene]

33. Gay is best to me too.

[DarkTirade]

24. I prefer MLT myself.

Mutton lettuce and tomato. I'm not a big fan of bacon.

... wait, that's not what we're talking about, is it. :P

[madmadmad]

25. gruyere lettuce bacon tomato sammich is what i always think when i read it.

can't it just be the gays? i always thought gay was a word that encompassed woman, as well as men. i also quite like "homosexual" but most of the gays seem not to, so i know i'm alone on that one.

and i will never say queer, ever. hate it so much, i can't even put it into words. but i realize that others like the word, so i don't take offense when they use it, but it doesn't cross my lips.

[readmoreoften]

39. Gruyere! That's the food! Yes!

[LoveIsNow]

50. I prefer Gouda for the G myself

and of course, there is LGBTQ, which is a Lettuce, Gouda, Bacon, and Tomato Quesadilla.

[Maat]

27. You guys have made me SO hungry.

And, I just came back from an equality march (NO-ON-H8).

I'm starving; I'm going to go downstairs and make myself a BLAT (I always keep organic avocado on hand).

Did have to put all those pictures up? A Californian can never go for long without a BLAT.

[cboy4]

28. It should actually be "LGBT"

That's the standard usage.

[Jamastiene]

30. Actually, that sounds quite yummy to me.

I love a BLT. :evilgrin:

I usually force myself to go ahead and type GLBT because I want to include as many of our community as I can. "Gay" suits me just fine across the board. Even though I'm female, I usually just call myself gay. I don't know what would be best though. I'm just saying what comes the most natural, to me.

[Jamastiene]

34. There goes THAT diet.

I just read this whole entire thread. I'm famished. :P

[Eryemil]

35. I just use queer as an umbrella term

Some people don't like the word but I don't really care. They keep adding letters to the bleeding acronym and it is just getting ridiculous.

[IndianaGreen]

36. LGBTQQ is being used a lot lately

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning.

[beaglelover]

37. That's ridiculous! IMO.

.

[readmoreoften]

40. It's good for colleges. I think that's why it's used.

[readmoreoften]

42. I'd like to be a Stonewallite, but its unfair to international LGBTs.

I like it identifying our history. Maybe we need a new, international easily translatable name for ourselves and--heck--maybe we could attach it to a new movement.

[bluedawg12]

43. Yeah, "The People Who Are Sick of This Sh*t, Intl. Ltd., Formerly Known As

GLBTQQ people."

[readmoreoften]

44. WASOTSIs: "We are sick of this shit, International"

My Wasotsi ass is on board.

[bluedawg12]

45. ...

:fistbump:

[readmoreoften]

47. The WASOTSI logo

:fistbump:

[bluedawg12]

48. That ROCKS!

Well done!!! :fistbump:

[xchrom]

49. now i'm hungry. nt

[LeftHander]

51. "The Fabulous Ones"

Well we are....