LGBTQI. I’ve seen the acronym ordered differently, but bear with me, I’m something of a dinosaur and never even got used to LGBT or whatever it used to be. I’m one of those fuckwits who thinks ‘bacon, lettuce, tomato’ every single time.

Lesbian
Gay
Bisexual
Transgender
Queer
Intersex

What about asexual. pansexual. polysexual, pomosexual? LGBTQIAPPP! Who else did I miss out? And if we’re mixing sexualities and genders into the acronym, there are even more missing. What we need is another vowel or two so that we can construct a decent anagram.

My one hope is that labels, instead of becoming divisive in their number and complexity, actually make people realize ultimately that at last they’ve labelled everyone, used up the entire alphabet and wow look at that, we’re all just human after all.

Fat chance. While legal and illegal bigotry exist, we’ll need the labels and the minorities and ways to find each other and feel safe. It gets confusing though; of the LGBTQI acronym, I am L and G and also Q. Is anyone only one of them? We probably all need Venn diagrams.

I suppose everybody could simply eschew labels and call themselves pomosexual, but then we already have another handy, all-encompassing term for what we are i.e. human. If we as a species didn’t make such a big deal of sexuality, it wouldn’t need to be mentioned very much at all in public.

In the meantime we’re all fleeing in ever-decreasing circles. The “Us and Them” that starts with They, the allegedly straight heterosexuals and Us, the bent people. Once the bent people are all in a group, we turn on each other and build more ghettos, attach more labels. It’s OK, straight people do the same thing – just look at racism, religious conflict etc.

Today I’m a cisgendered female LGQ person. That probably won’t change, but the jargon will.

TTFN.