Generation LGBTQIA
By MICHAEL SCHULMAN
Published: January 9, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/fashion/generation-lgbtqia.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/fashion/generation-lgbtqia.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)
Armed with the millennial generation's defining traits — Web savvy, boundless confidence and social networks that extend online and off — Stephen and his peers are forging a political identity all their own, often at odds with mainstream gay culture.
If the gay-rights movement today seems to revolve around same-sex marriage, this generation is seeking something more radical: an upending of gender roles beyond the binary of male/female. The core question isn't whom they love, but who they are — that is, identity as distinct from sexual orientation.
But what to call this movement? Whereas "gay and lesbian" was once used to lump together various sexual minorities — and more recently "L.G.B.T." to include bisexual and transgender — the new vanguard wants a broader, more inclusive abbreviation. "Youth today do not define themselves on the spectrum of L.G.B.T.," said Shane Windmeyer, a founder of Campus Pride, a national student advocacy group based in Charlotte, N.C.
I quite like the idea. I mean why just have it restricted to the L.G.B.T? We're all searching for happines in life no matter what out orentation or gender. And I'm sure those who are there to support would love the recongiztion too! ^_^