Quote from: SydneyTinker on October 26, 2010, 07:53:04 PM
My impression has been that we are all part of this big, colorful queer continuum and do indeed lump well enough together.

My thoughts exactly In fact, I just want to belong to the NASMA (Not a small minded arsehole) community, who's with me? We can have a parade!!

This is interesting. The T community is much more scattered on the sexual orientation field as the straight one. I've personally met  6 transgenders; 2 are straight, 2 are gay and two feel the same way as me: right now, I consider sex only with a woman (no penetration for me, thanks) but after transitioning, I could also be with men. I guess this happens because we think about our options more due to our queerness. Cis-straights admit less wishes because they're more frustrated with what others would say.

Quote from: MillieB on October 26, 2010, 08:05:38 PM
My thoughts exactly In fact, I just want to belong to the NASMA (Not a small minded arsehole) community, who's with me? We can have a parade!!

With you one-hundred percent on that!   

GBLT makes me think of this song:


We definitely seem to be tucked in as an afterthought, but I do appreciate the fact that their efforts have helped our recognition and rights as well.

I identify as straight, personally I'm fine with the association.

The way I see it, we are all connected in the sense that we are all persecuted because we don't conform to the expectations of the gender other people have assigned us.

In that sense, we are similar.

I find I can get along with LGBT people pretty well because even if we have very different problems, at the core it still boils down to the same thing, which is that we are not like the majority and are often ridiculed or persecuted for it.

Doesn't mean we all have to agree with eachother all of the time.

I am amazingly gay. I was "that ->-bleeped-<-got" when I was a kid.

Technically, I'm bisexual, but that leaves me safely in LGB territory regardless of my transition state or presentation.

When labels come up, I tell people I'm queer.

LGBT makes great sense to me as a category. It just contains a lot of diversity within the set.