A report by NGO Amnesty International: It provides an overview of the increasingly dire situation for LGBT+ people in various African countries.

  • Gormadt
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    86 months ago

    It’s sounds pretty stupid but this is (partially) why I prefer the term “queer community”

    I don’t know all the letters, I don’t expect anyone else to know all the letters, and we should be taking back the term “queer”

    I’m bi and it’s just easier to stick with “I’m a member of the Queer community” than “I’m a member of the LGBTQA2SI+ community”

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      26 months ago

      Yeah I think LGBT is valuable as a specific cultural coalition in America that’s become mostly outdated and replaced with queer. Like personally I find it more relevant to just say “yeah I’m a lesbian” or “yeah I’m trans” or occasionally “actually I’m mildly intersex”. The rest of y’all being family is implied.

      I do like LGBT for its history and for the fact that it acknowledges we have our own cultures, but it’s not like people get that when they hear it.