Extended Orientation Dissemination     EOD        

figures this will blow up in her face ... cringes waiting to get smacked in the back of the head..

Dont worry about blow ups .. thus is a humorous thread about a touchy subject- lets keep it like a brainstorm... there are no wrong answers... just a right one waiting to pop out.

For example, we could coopt a word, like 'gay' used to mean bright and carefree.  How about we coopt 'awesome'.

"Support awesome rights!"

"Me?  I am awesome."

"We should think about how our company supports the awesome community."


Now I am off to watch beetlejuice.   Mmmmm   geena davis.

Extended is good though.  I like that.

Extended sexual orientation and/or gender community.  Esog?

Beyond binary community. .. bbc?  - gee this is hard.

Ooh.. what about 'outside the box' or outbox for short...

Didn't wont to use to word 'sex'-anything ...  some people's imagination, or utter lack of one, get the best of them when they hear that..  Like Transsexual...  you lose them at 'sex' and anything after that you say is ..bla blabla blaaaa  bla blabla in their ears... 

I like  ESOG   ...Extended Spectrum Orientation Group

Don't people sometimes use "gender or sexual minority"? I feel like that covers everyone in the acronym.

Ahh bingo Lorri Kat (cute pic btw)

I was trying to work out why I prefer the term transgendered to transexual.  Its indeed the sex bit that causes the shock.  Actually I like crossgendered a bit better or the more dynamic X-gendered.

The minority bit doesnt lend well to political weight... something that says 'we have lots of votes!' 

People of atypical gender and/or  orientatation  pago

Snickers...LOL  "dynamic X-gendered"   That would make me  an X-Gen Gen-X'er...   ...snorts...  O.O OMG!!!...  blushes ... LOLROTF...

Yea anything with 'non-binary', 'cross-', 'sex-anything' , atypical, minority, even 'trans' in the title(acronym) gives the conotation of being 'less then' to society in general to those that are not enlightened of the subject and will be equated, perhaps, as weakness

I find Transgendered is easier for people to take in a conversation even though it is a blanket term for the whole spectrum then using transsexual, which as I said before you tend to lose them at 'sex' unless they are already educated in the whole thing.  Using TG though can be worse if they are one of those people that are in the .. 'know enough to be dangerous' category.  Then you find it's ..pull out the whiteboard and laser pointer class is in session time.  Its hard to give a Readers Digest condensed version on the spot of.. I'm normal.  And, to quote myself,  "I would be more accepted if there wasen't such piss poor quality control in the womb!  I swear I was conceived on a friday before a long weekend and was slapped together in there with what ever parts were on hand irrespective of what it said on the invoice.  GerrrrrRRRRRRRRR!"   I'm living proof mother nature has a sadistic sense of humor at times.        I think she gave me some of her Snarky though!!!  lol

Yeah I got me a dose of snark instead of testosterone at the critical bit. 

Quote from: Lorri Kat on July 11, 2013, 08:27:29 PM
..."I would be more accepted if there wasen't such piss poor quality control in the womb!  I swear I was conceived on a friday before a long weekend and was slapped together in there with what ever parts were on hand irrespective of what it said on the invoice.  GerrrrrRRRRRRRRR!"   ...

Nailed It!
I love the way you think hon.

Came across an interesting one today.  QUILTBAG. "Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transexual), Bisexual, Asexual, Gay/Genderqueer"

We're all pieces of the quilt

I've heard of the Queer Alphabet soup but depending on one's perspective, they may find it it be as inclusive as intended, and perhaps even offending.

How about the non-conforming alphabet soup instead?

Quiltbag.



Supercalifragulistic?

How about 'spectrum community'.


Btw I love how the term lgbt community makes us sound like we all hang out in the same place and know each other... like sesame street.

Quote from: CaseyB on August 09, 2013, 08:10:50 PM
Came across an interesting one today.  QUILTBAG. "Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transexual), Bisexual, Asexual, Gay/Genderqueer"

We're all pieces of the quilt

I think I'm in love with this one

Quote from: prettypoly86 on August 11, 2013, 02:58:16 PM

Quote from: ! on August 09, 2013, 08:10:50 PM
Came across an interesting one today.  QUILTBAG. "Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transexual), Bisexual, Asexual, Gay/Genderqueer"

We're all pieces of the quilt

I think I'm in love with this one

Seconded.


If anyone's looking for something really simple, we could just add a + with the old acronym. LGBT+, LGBTQA+, etc. Not very precise and kind of lazy, but it still recognizes other parts of the community.

Wait but with QUILTBAG does that mean we're a bag of quilts or a bag made of a quilt???

A bag made of quilting that contains quilts.

That's it.   I am proudly  quilt bag.