Homolexicology
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Back when wording shifted from gay women and men to lesbians and gays it through me.
“When, in the queer world, you say `the gay community,’ the majority of the time that conjures up San Francisco’s largely male Castro District, or West Hollywood or Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, so interjecting the word lesbian into the mix is a necessary reminder that we — gay women — are not simply a subset of that larger male world but rather our own distinct community of individuals,” she said.
The editor freely uses “queer,” formerly a slur, to include not only lesbians but “bisexual women and lesbian-identified transgender women.” This leads to the initialese LGBT, standing for “Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender,” as well as its gay-first GLBT.
Homolexicology: Should lesbians be called gays?