As the title states really. I need to refer to this diverse group of people, who somehow have gotten put in the same box labeled “sexual minorites”.
I’m a boring CISHET vanilla white male, so I don’t really know. I want to include as many as I can when I refer to “lgbtq+ people”. I’ve been studying various flags, trying to find the one flag I need. But I can’t really figure it out.
Is lgbtq+ the preferred term, or what should I use? Is a flag better? I don’t want to hurt someone by not including them.
Personally I would just refer to them as the LGBT community.
Most of the extra letters and terms are highly specific labels or nuances most people would struggle to understand.
For example someone has spent 20 minutes explaining why they are pansexual and not bisexual. I still can’t see a difference but if that is the label they want, then they are pansexual.
The key thing to remember is the LGBT community isn’t a monolith. The group exists because they are/were being opressed for their sexual identity.
You will also get people who have made the group focus their core identity. They will often be loudest but not always representative of the group.