Stop the movement -- I want to get off
By: Alyson Hill
Issue date: 2/25/08 Section: Opinions
http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2008/02/25/Opinions/Stop-The.Movement.I.Want.To.Get.Off-3231864.shtml"We're here, we're LGBTQQA, get used to it!" Somehow it doesn't quite roll off the tongue the way the original did - but that almost humorously complicated acronym is, perhaps, a better reflection of the queer movement today and some of the problems with it.
Within the past ten years, the acronym with which most are familiar - LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) - has ballooned to also include the categories "queer" (a vague term sometimes used interchangeably with the LGBT acronym, but which can also refer anyone whose lifestyle falls outside the mainstream); "questioning" (anyone who is unsure of his or her orientation); and "allies" (people who don't consider themselves queer but are supportive of those who do). In other words, pretty much anyone who isn't repulsed by same-sex affection now has a letter with which to associate him- or herself.
