Comments on: Tennesse Schools Unblock LGBTQ Websites

By: Dusty Matthews

Dusty Matthews — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:14:02 +0000

The Leesburg Public Library staff members have proposed a compromise. It has been approved by the Library Advisory Board and will be presented to the Leesburg City Commissioners at the meeting on Monday, September 28th.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:09:22 +0000

I often find myself defaulting to “GLBT” for the sake of communication — its an acronym that a lot of people recognize and is inclusive of many people who are not traditionally heteronormative. “LGBT” is also recognizable, so why not switch it up? Sadly, BLTG looks more like the name of a sandwich than a social group!

Thanks to the NCAC commenter over at the ICPL blog, I was reminded that I can add “Q” to the longer acronym. In fact, I do prefer the term “queer” as all-encompassing and I try to use it on its own as often as possible. But like “cunt” and many similar terms of endearment, I think the word itself has a taboo-ish derogatory quality for those who aren’t “in-the-know.” It’s a dilemma! (Whether to be pro, or con…)

By: amms

amms — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:15:54 +0000

i want to see a blog post about GLBT vs. LGBT and how everyone should be ashamed for completely ignoring the last two letters, then even more ashamed for being pedantic enough to use the letter ordering of an acronym to indicate priority. and whats up with the Q cribbed from from your ICPL blog commenter?

someone needs to invent a quantum alphabet, and then all the letters can exist at the same point in superposition. OR YOU KNOW STOP BEING DICKS ABOUT IT AND USE A GENERIC TERM AND NOT AN ACRONYM THAT ENUMERATES ONLY SPECIFIC GROUPS!