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The A-Z of LGBT: the ever expanding queer acronym

It's quite a moutful, and it keeps getting longer and harder.

The A-Z of LGBT - The Feed

Identifying as other than cishet has become somewhat of a mouthful - how to be PC?

It's that time of year, when 10,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans* and every other sexual identity and orientation under the sun comes out to play for Sydney Mardi Gras.

And every year at gay Christmas, the conversation comes up again: what's the most inclusive way to address people outside the cisgender heterosexual norm?

Patrick Abboud talks to Tom Ballard about how to be PC about the LGBT acronym.

 


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