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pt_tangles) wrote2012-02-23 12:39 pm
pt_tangles) wrote2012-02-23 12:39 pm
New Terms
While trying to catch up on my PBP writing, I came across the whole PantheaCon kerfuffle, and I have been reading everyone's opinion on what happened and who's right and what should be done and who gets to decide, etc etc etc. I have discovered along the way that the language seems to have changed quite a bit since I was last very active in online discussion.
Specifically the cis- prefix (which I did manage to figure out on my own) and the fact that LGBT got longer. I get the 'I' for Intersexed, but Q? I am assuming this standing for Queer. This one I don't really understand. Queer is different from LGBTI? I'm not a part of this community, so I'm kind of confused.
I'm hoping that someone can explain it to me.
Thanks in advance :)
Specifically the cis- prefix (which I did manage to figure out on my own) and the fact that LGBT got longer. I get the 'I' for Intersexed, but Q? I am assuming this standing for Queer. This one I don't really understand. Queer is different from LGBTI? I'm not a part of this community, so I'm kind of confused.
I'm hoping that someone can explain it to me.
Thanks in advance :)