I totally agree about LBGT. Economy of words people! Also very tired of hearing drag queens say that, "If it wasn't for us at Stonewall...blah, blah, blah." TJ could you also make me a LGBT? "Tanks!"

Oh Crap...you did it now. By slandering the righteously debated and and carefully wordsmithed beauty of the phrase Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (what the fuck do I have in common with a guy that wants to cut it off...I LOVE mine), you have unleased the fury of millions of humorless, politically correct folks...mostly with bad haircuts.

Run TJ, Run before it's too late!

Boomer462, what you have in common is you want to something nonstandard with it. They hate that.

Wasn't "queer" supposed to replace all that crap?
What happened to "queer"?
Did HRC lesbians and Andrew Sullivan bury it in a casket alongside the "n-word"?

I'm all about queer-it's the one that makes the most sense as applied to a group and in some ways, sounds much less denigrating as "gay" which has gained a banality to it from the exposure over the years. Case in point-how many "gay"- or "LGBT"-marketed films (other than porn) have you seen that were really good?

I myself sometimes prefer "precocious harlot". But you know whatever works for you.

Yea, but watch out for the L part of that sandwich, it might be soggy.

Huntington -

I do get it that they hate us for wanting something different and we're all in this together but I was going for a chuckle. My point is that SO many of the Uber PC folks could use some hot sweaty butt sex (or a good nasty scissoring or a vibrator so hot you need to use oven mitts or whatever) AND a good laugh.

We can all work together on the agenda...just keep it in perspective...life is too short. :)

Hope you enjoyed your sandwich. I tried one. But mine had too many pubic hairs in it. I hate when those things get caught in my teeth. Especially when they're smeared with mayonnaise. But the bun was fresh, though :P

I'm always getting in trouble here in SF (uber PC capital of the nation it seems) because I don't use PC terms that often.

Well, I can understand a different designation for transgendered as it really isn't about being gay at all. They are lumped in w/us as the fight for acceptance/equality is the same.

I never understood the whole distinction of being lessie or bi. Being a lesbian is still gay and being bi is just a shade of gay. I find it ironic that we fight the labels given to us by society at large but we turn around and create so many for ourselves.

For some reason this struck me as classic Durban Bud. Love it.

I call us GBLT's all the time. Classic. mmmm blt.

"Marcie is apparently a moderator."

OMFG, it didn't click in my brain until you said it. LOL!

aren't there more male gays than lesbians? shouldn't that put us at the front of the labeling like food?
so it would be GLTB, cause everyone knows that true Bi's are about as rare as hens teeth.

What's wrong with just gay? Blanket term. I'm not a gay. I'm a gay man. We are gay. "Gay" is descriptive.

Your commenters know no lesbians do they? I suppose we could stretch the argument: "People are people, why have these two terms men and women all the damn time!"

I would like my LGBT with extra mayo please.

Hey, if we didn't get continually caught up in stupid semantic arguments we might actually get something accomplished and then where would we be?

not sure where you're all from, but in rochester, ny some one had the fabulous idea of adding another T for transexual, a Q for queer, and and I for intersex. so now we're the LGBTTQI population. true story. sure makes picking out whom i'm going to have sex with more interesting.

I always insist on GLBT on the grounds that it can be pronounced "glibbet." Just try to make a nonsense word out of LGBT. You can get as far as "lugbutt," which, I freely admit, has the virtue of pissing off some of the described class, but which is ultimately unsatisfyingly ugly. "Glibbet" is so much nicer and rhymes with something Kermit might say, and if there's anything all we queer folk can agree on, it's that it's not easy being green.