more inclusive board name?

does anyone else think this board should have a more inclusive name than gay? i suggest "queer" or "lgbtq" so that we can have a title that recognizes every stripe on the rainbow and not just those of us who identify as gay. thoughts?

 

I agree and have discussed this with Skip myself, I believe he said that the term gay would be more widely picked up on a search engine, skip if your reading this and I'm wrong please correct me
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If the board name was LGBTQ and the intro blurb thing said 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and/or Queer/Questioning', wouldn't a search engine still pick up 'gay'? And it would also pull in the other search terms that could be fed into search engines.

 

Typing "gay forum" into Google was the way I found this place but I like Adamness' idea.

 

'Queer' wouldn't really work, but I really don't think it needs to be changed. It's quite obvious where to look, even if you are lesbian.

 

Are you implying that lesbians don't normally know where to look for things? THAT'S A RIDICULOUSLY SPECIFIC STEREOTYPE.

Whether we change it or not, let's not change it to "queer". Seriously, it's a horrible word.

 

^^i agree. i very much so dislike the word queer. Queer implies something odd, something out of the "normal", which I don't see myself as at all.

 

I never got why anyone wanted to reclaim that. It's not as bad as "fag", it sounds uglier but doesn't mean anything so ugly.

I dunno, I figure LGBT would work okay, but I've never got the need to add the Q. I gather it means "questioning" rather than "queer" (or, my favourite, "Q-rious"), but even so, I figure if someone's "questioning", they'd go to the LGBT just as readily as the LGBTQ. But what do I know?

 

Queer has been reowned of late, when I remember I'll start a thread about Queer Spirit, but I do agree with the above posters more people are comfortable with the term gay as an over all description of LGBT rather than Queer
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I can't help but think that inclusion can get tricky. I'd thought maybe rebranding it as "Sexuality" would be appropriate, since that covers anything that's likely to come up, rather than adding more to the LGB list of initials. (remember the "LGBTQIO" debate? ugh...)

 

even though transexual has 'sexual' in its name its not really about sexuality, so I don't think that would work.
also people would start argueing for putting the whole lot under love and sex, I don't know what people would think about that
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Hmmm, good point. Trans people aren't usually gay (in their new gender) either, are they. Maybe "alternative sexuality"? Or "Gay/Transgender"...

Nah, it's fine how it is.

 

not true ethier sorry
trans people are all ranges of sexuality just like people that aren't trans
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Totally true, actually. People who aren't trans aren't usually gay either. All I was trying to say was that including transgender people under the umbrella term "gay" ignores the fact that a lot of them (I believe the majority) aren't gay in their new gender. I didn't say none of them ever were.

I can't help but feel we're making this a more controversial subject than it has to be.

 

I feel like the 'Q' is on the end of 'LGBT' works as an 'etc.' It includes questioning people [who may know where to look, technically, but would be hesitant or nervous about identifying themselves as LGBT] and people who don't fully identify with 'lesbian', 'gay', 'bisexual' and/or 'transgender'- such as pansexual and intersexed people. I say, the more people who feel fully included and represented, the better.

 

See, I'd be surprised if someone who was intimidated by LGBT wouldn't be intimated by LGBTQ.

I do sometimes wonder about the inclusion of T, to be honest. Not because I have any problem with transgender people, but because I know that they have a completely different experience from gays, lesbians and bisexuals. That's not to say we should hang out, but I dunno, it's almost like we're still being lumped together as "sexual weirdos" and we're just letting it happen because the vocabulary used is less offensive.