LGBTAQI&F: No my keyboard isn't broken

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered, LGBT, its short, its simple and I'd say most of North America understands the meaning of the words that make up that acronym. After time there was even a lonely "Q" added to encompass the wider range and diversity of the LGBTQ community, but it seems lately that more letters of the alphabet are being thrown on board as well.


So what are all these emerging forms of sexuality? We're still working on getting conservatives to admit plain old dick in ass, clitoral mashing, vanilla, homosexual sex isn't the by-product of some mental illness, let alone indoctrinating the masses to a whole new series of delightful human physicality.


A lot of them aren't new, but run through the list just this once.


Earlier today I heard someone talking about the asexual community. Which would logically expand the title to LGBTQA. This is the best group to start with due to their increasing visibility. They fly the fiery flag of plain dark blue, and now march in most major gay parades. From a scientific standpoint the word asexual would mean a creature that reproduces without the aid of a mate, but when applied to the only people wearing pants at the pride parade, it implies a total lack of lust, attraction, or want of sex toward anyone, or anything.


The main group spearheading their movement seems to be the AVEN, or the Asexual Visibility and Education Network.


It does seem though that there is a key difference to the plight of the asexual. With the exception of the members of the queer community who don't feel that the "A" belongs alongside them, no one is discriminating against them. Its more of a movement of acknowledgment.


Well here at THE DIRTY WORD, we believe in you, way more then Peter Pan, and believe that if the definition of queer is anything outside of the heteronormal, then you my unaroused friends get an "A+."


The next word floating around this boggle match is "I" for intersex. According to the ISNA (dear god we're in acronym hell right now), or the Intersex Society of North America anywhere from 1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 people are born and classified medically as intersexual, or some simply, a person that possesses mixed sex anatomy. Sometimes its internal, other times its not. Its a complicated classification mainly due to the fact that there are so many things that could technically cause a person to fall in this category.


The Intersex Initiative says it the best, "There is no single "intersex body"; it encompasses a wide variety of conditions that do not have anything in common except that they are deemed "abnormal" by the society. What makes intersex people similar is their experiences of medicalization, not biology."


It also brings is up to LGBTQAI.


It might look like a bad draw in scrabble, but we're not done yet. There's one more left, and this one goes out to all those boring heterosexuals out there. The last letter is "F." Standing only for friends. The queer community, and all its extensions, have blown up in recent years. Television, radio, film, music and all forms of media now showcase a barrage of gay images, good and bad.


Its refreshing to some who lived with literally nothing openly and positively reflective of themselves in popular culture for so long, and its insulting and deviant to those who would have things remain the way they once were.


The North American LGBTAQI civil rights movement has evolved from of a riot outside of a hotel called "Stonewall" into a massive political force, but do not forget strait people, that this movement, larger then ever, is still a minority and needs its friends. It needs them voting, supporting, and even marching alongside it.