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Discussion: Is the "LGBT+ community" actually a community?
Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Is the "LGBT+ community" actually a community?
No shade but it seems like just lumping all the non-straights together for the sake of it. Even within the so called community there is so much discrimination and judgment. Thoughts?
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Member Since: 1/4/2014
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the only community im apart of is the taiwanese community at my school
i dont even have any gay friends outside of ATRL 
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Member Since: 10/10/2009
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Not in the "warm fuzzy" definition of community.
Most "communities" (black, LGBT, Hispanic, etc) are just a demographic.
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Member Since: 4/3/2014
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I think it's strange that we all get lumped together. For example, homosexuality and transsexuality are not the same thing (who u fall in love with vs gender identity) so, although I do believe in the rights of transsexual people, I can't really relate to them or their struggle.
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Member Since: 9/16/2011
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it is but for only white male gays
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Member Since: 2/20/2012
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Transgenders should be separate. Maybe even bisexuals. 
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by .aR
it is but for only white male gays
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It seems that way.
xox
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by chilicheese01
Transgenders should be separate. Maybe even bisexuals. |
I kind of agree tbh.
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Member Since: 11/27/2008
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It really doesn't feel like it from my experience. Literally most of the bullying I received as a teen was online through the gay community.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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It never was.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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The LGBT community is a coalition of same-sex attracted or gender non-conforming people that linked through the AIDS crisis and the systematic discrimination/genocide caused by the negligence of our governments up until straight people began to get AIDS too, which is when straight people began to give a ****.
We are a community because we faced this problem together and we're intrinsically linked because of it and we're not "just together for the sake of it", we're together because if we never came together no one would've cared about an entire generation of (mostly) gay men and transgender women being wiped off the ****ing face of the earth.
We're linked because impoverished gay men and trans women, especially those of color, were considered undesirable and their deaths were laughed about by government officials while lesbians came together to take care of our sick and make sure they died with some dignity.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by BYoncé
The LGBT community is a coalition of same-sex attracted or gender non-conforming people that linked through the AIDS crisis and the systematic discrimination/genocide caused by the negligence of our governments up until straight people began to get AIDS too, which is when straight people began to give a ****.
We are a community because we faced this problem together and we're intrinsically linked because of it and we're not "just together for the sake of it", we're together because if we never came together no one would've cared about an entire generation of (mostly) gay men and transgender women being wiped off the ****ing face of the earth.
We're linked because impoverished gay men and trans women, especially those of color, were considered undesirable and their deaths were laughed about by government officials while lesbians came together to take care of our sick and make sure they died with some dignity.
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Educate the children! When gay men and transgender people were dying en masse from AIDS, lesbian women really stepped up and provided care and support for them when nobody else would. It is a shame so many of us forget our shared history.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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It can serve to bring people together who suffer from homophobia and/or transphobia, and help battle the overall presence of homophobia and transphobia in society, but that's it.
There's an argument that such a focus on an acronym erases the nuanced realities between the different groups, especially when you try to expand it to things like LGBTQIAP.
I think something straight cis folks and especially cis straight asexuals who want to be considered "LGBT" or "queer" don't get is that there's far more connected communities (based on their unique needs) within the "acronym" like: men who love men (since they date and have sex with each other), women who love women (since they date and have sex with each other), bisexuals/pansexuals, transgender folks, the unique needs of lesbians, etc. And then most of these communities have further divisions amongst things like race, wealth, etc. because a white wealthy transgender woman is going to have different needs/privileges than a poor black transgender woman.
People who aren't LGBT seem to think it's some club where every member knows one another and has similar "LGBT needs" or whatever, but it does serve to tackle some common goals against homophobia & transphobia.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by chilicheese01
Transgenders should be separate. Maybe even bisexuals. |
Transgender women were among the first to throw bricks and fight back at Stonewall, which is why we have the concept of Pride Parades, they were always on the frontlines, and bisexual people still got ****ed over for liking the same sex so why should they be separate?
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ATRL Contributor
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LGBT came together to fight for equality. Since then only two of the letters have made any progress in society. For those two groups to wish to split the community that has empowered an entire generation of people for us now to be able to say we are able to get married legally is frankly rude and deeply offensive.
Trans in particular are discriminated against the most and I personally feel that we as a community are obliged to help one another as we once did several decades ago. Without the aforementioned trans people who marched alongside side us, we may not be as privileged as we are.
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Member Since: 8/24/2008
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It's really interesting the disconnect the LGBT community of today has in comparison to the past. It's sad how the media has swept under the rug how they allowed LGBT members to literally die out on the streets not that many years, but now that the new LGBT don't remember in that they all seem to believe they're to good for anything LGBT related.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Quote:
Originally posted by BYoncé
The LGBT community is a coalition of same-sex attracted or gender non-conforming people that linked through the AIDS crisis and the systematic discrimination/genocide caused by the negligence of our governments up until straight people began to get AIDS too, which is when straight people began to give a ****.
We are a community because we faced this problem together and we're intrinsically linked because of it and we're not "just together for the sake of it", we're together because if we never came together no one would've cared about an entire generation of (mostly) gay men and transgender women being wiped off the ****ing face of the earth.
We're linked because impoverished gay men and trans women, especially those of color, were considered undesirable and their deaths were laughed about by government officials while lesbians came together to take care of our sick and make sure they died with some dignity.
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While it might seem like "lumping", LGBT+ people face similar struggles, and can overcome barriers more effectively together.
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Member Since: 4/30/2012
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Quote:
noun, plural communities.
1.
a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.
2.
a locality inhabited by such a group.
3.
a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists (usually preceded by the):
the business community; the community of scholars.
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so yes.
being a community doesn't mean always have to hold hands, what even? we share a common element.
also yikes @ the low key transphobia in this post saying they don't belong in the lgbt community. not everyone has to be identical to be apart of the group. the lgbt community is about diversity in sexuality and gender.
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Member Since: 4/30/2012
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Quote:
Originally posted by BYoncé
The LGBT community is a coalition of same-sex attracted or gender non-conforming people that linked through the AIDS crisis and the systematic discrimination/genocide caused by the negligence of our governments up until straight people began to get AIDS too, which is when straight people began to give a ****.
We are a community because we faced this problem together and we're intrinsically linked because of it and we're not "just together for the sake of it", we're together because if we never came together no one would've cared about an entire generation of (mostly) gay men and transgender women being wiped off the ****ing face of the earth.
We're linked because impoverished gay men and trans women, especially those of color, were considered undesirable and their deaths were laughed about by government officials while lesbians came together to take care of our sick and make sure they died with some dignity.
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very mature and thought out reply!!!!
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Member Since: 4/14/2011
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We should strive for it to be one cause united we're more powerful against bigots
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