LGBTQ+ and Esperanto
de punkmat, 20 august 2015
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rikforto (Arată profil) 21 august 2015, 00:35:47
Tempodivalse:I always understood that one "Q" stands for "queer", meaning any sexuality that is not heterosexual - kind of a catch-all. (Out of curiosity, would this also include asexuality?)I held various positions in a college advocacy group for LGBT (our preferred acronym) people. But early in the school year, we would do "alphabet soup". We would have people think of every letter they could that would fit under the LGBT umbrella. It got going good conversation about identities and the difficulties and benefits of labels---and just about everyone learned a new label that night. Point is, we stopped at 32 letters (repeats were allowed) the last time we did it. Needless to say, we did not proceed to use that when we spoke with the press.
When there are two Qs, I understand that the second means "questioning". (The extended acronym seems to be rarer nowadays, though.)
I would say that the canonical understanding of LGBTQA is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Ally. But the alternatives put forward on here are used by people and understood to fall under the umbrella, so yes, it includes asexuality. It's a large, complicated, diverse movement.
erinja (Arată profil) 21 august 2015, 00:47:56
punkmat (Arată profil) 21 august 2015, 01:23:14
VOllOV:Hi, it's pretty common for members of this community to define the "Q" as both Queer and Questioning. The reason "Queer" is important to the acronym is to include individuals who are non binary (neither male or female, under a spectrum of genders and pronouns. I can explain this in further detail if needed!), asexual/aromantic, pansexual, intersex, etc. The added "Q" is a good way to include people of a variety of genders and sexualities without referring to the community as just plainly "queer", since many members of this community do not like that term because of the bigotry behind it. If you need more information, feel free to ask me, I'd be happy to help!jagr2808:Q = Questioning.Vestitor:What does the 'Q' stand for in that acronym?its queer
punkmat (Arată profil) 21 august 2015, 01:27:23
erinja:Hi, Matt. Welcome! I don't know Kik. But there is an LGBTQ Esperanto group, Ligo de Samseksemaj Geesperantistoj. Sorry their website is so out of date but this is it: LSGThank you so much! I'll be sure to check out these links!
Our community here at lernu is pretty diverse, too, so perhaps someone else can share some good resources with you.
Sonja Kisa has a great dictionary that includes a lot of LGBT (the Esperanto acronym is GLAT) terms. Sonja's English-Esperanto Dictionary
Kik is a messaging app that is available for most smartphones and I believe there is also an extension for Chrome users (under a different name, though). I check mine often, and I thought it would be a great place for LGBTQ+ Esperantists to chat! There actually are a couple of Esperanto chat rooms there already (under several hashtags), I am a member of the #esperanto group, but the rooms are limited to 50 people and I believe that room is either full or almost full.
punkmat (Arată profil) 21 august 2015, 01:28:13
whysea:You should check out Egalecen: https://egalecen.wordpress.com/ (articles about equality)Thank you so much!!
and Aliuloj: http://aliuloj.alketo.info/ (place for art and story sharing among queer esperantists, for example: http://aliuloj.alketo.info/wp-content/uploads/2015...)
and the youtube of Rolando: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7rqQWo4cA
Also join in on the Tumblr #esperanto tag and you're likely to find more queer esperantists
Alkanadi (Arată profil) 23 august 2015, 09:50:21
rikforto:I would say that the canonical understanding of LGBTQA is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Ally.I think these long acronyms don't help. At first I thought that the Q was for Queer but Questioning seems better in my opinion. I thought the A was for Animal, but I guess it means Ally. I had to look up Ally on Google. So it is just a person who defends their rights?
Demian (Arată profil) 23 august 2015, 13:20:30
FractalBloom (Arată profil) 23 august 2015, 16:30:48
Tempodivalse:I always understood that one "Q" stands for "queer", meaning any sexuality that is not heterosexual - kind of a catch-all. (Out of curiosity, would this also include asexuality?)I'm asexual and I refer to myself as queer. Granted, I'm comfortable in a [romantic] relationship with someone of either gender, so...I don't know what a hetero-romantic asexual would call him/herself.
Sometimes I see the abbreviation written "LGBTQIA" to specifically include asexuals and intersex. I prefer to stick with "LGBT+" for the sake of simplicity.
jagr2808 (Arată profil) 23 august 2015, 18:21:19
FractalBloom:In Norwegian we differ between the terms hetro/homo/bi -fil and hetro/homo/bi -seksuell.
I'm asexual and I refer to myself as queer. Granted, I'm comfortable in a [romantic] relationship with someone of either gender, so...I don't know what a hetero-romantic asexual would call him/herself.
Where the first one mean you fall in love with opposite/same/both genders, and the latter means you can become sexually atracted to them.
Does any other languages have anything similar?
Rajzino (Arată profil) 23 august 2015, 19:42:55
jagr2808:Does any other languages have anything similar?Just slightly change the spelling (-fil to -fiel and -seksuell to -seksueel), and it's almost exactly the same for Dutch. Although -fiel words are old fashioned, a little rare (and I've never heard of bifiel before), and usually considered to be perfect synonyms to the -seksueel words.
English actually also has the words homophile (= homosexual) and homophilia (= homosexuality), but similar to Dutch they are old fashioned and very rare.