How the school’s early-nineteenth-century Methodist founders would have rejoiced to see this day!
This is what other church-related colleges and universities may someday aspire to become.
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You may well have seen the acronym LGBT, which stands for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered — in expressions such as the LGBT community.
(I confess to some reservations about the use of the term community in such language, but I’ll let that pass for now.)
However, the odds are that you’re behind the times. And substantially so.
I’ve actually met people — and I promise that I’m not making this up! — who were unfamiliar with the expressions LGBTQIA and LGBTQIAA (that is, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Queer Intersex Asexual and Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Queer Intersex Asexual Ally).
If you’re one of those — no need to raise hands! — you urgently need to familiarize yourself with the term. Here’s a resource to help you:
http://tahoesafealliance.org/for-lgbqtia/what-does-lgbtqia-mean/
You can study it in the privacy of your home. You don’t even need to receive it in a plain brown wrapper.
And such pathetically out-of-date folks had better bring themselves up to speed and get themselves on The Right Side of History, because a new and expanded expression — LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM (parental advisory: this link, which comes from the official website of Connecticut’s Wesleyan University, contains at least one word not suitable, yet!, for children) — has now appeared, and those who don’t get with the rhetorical program are very likely to find themselves outed as haters, reactionaries, and bigots.
(By the way, I think the address given in the link, 154 Church Street, is symbolically wonderful.)
For commentary on the new term and its arrival on a respected American university campus, see this.
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