Editing LGBT (section)

== History of the term ==
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[[File:Stonewall Inn 5 pride weekend 2016.jpg|thumb|left|The [[wikipedia:Stonewall Inn|Stonewall Inn]] in the [[wikipedia:Gay village|gay village]] of [[wikipedia:Greenwich Village|Greenwich Village]], [[wikipedia:LGBT culture in New York City|Manhattan]], site of the June 1969 [[wikipedia:Stonewall riots|Stonewall riots]], the cradle of the modern [[wikipedia:LGBT rights|LGBT rights]] movement and an icon of [[wikipedia:LGBT culture|LGBT culture]], is adorned with [[wikipedia:Rainbow flag (LGBT)|rainbow pride flags]].<ref name="goicichea">{{Cite web|last=Goicichea|first=Julia|date=2017-08-16|title=Why New York City Is a Major Destination for LGBT Travelers|url=https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/why-new-york-city-is-a-major-destination-for-lgbt-travelers/|website=The Culture Trip|access-date=2019-02-02|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="rosenberg">{{Cite news|last=Rosenberg|first=Eli|date=2016-06-24|title=Stonewall Inn Named National Monument, a First for the Gay Rights Movement|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/nyregion/stonewall-inn-named-national-monument-a-first-for-gay-rights-movement.html|newspaper=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]]|url-access=subscription|url-status=live|access-date=2016-06-25|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="landmark">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/diversity/stonewall.htm|title=Workforce Diversity The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562|website=National Park Service|publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior|access-date=2016-04-21|df=mdy-all}}</ref>]]
[[File:Palco BolognaPride08.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|LGBT publications, [[wikipedia:Pride parade|pride parades]] and related events, such as this stage at [[wikipedia:Bologna|Bologna]] Pride 2008 in Italy, increasingly drop the ''LGBT'' initialism instead of regularly adding new letters, and dealing with issues of placement of those letters within the new title.<ref name="cahill">{{Cite document|last1=Cahill|first1=Sean|last2=Kim-Butler|first2=Bryan|year=2006|title=Policy priorities for the LGBT community: Pride Survey 2006|publisher=National Gay and Lesbian Task Force|location=[[wikipedia:New York City|New York City]]}}</ref>]]
The first widely used term, ''[[wikipedia:Homosexual|homosexual]]'', now carries negative connotations in the United States.<ref name="glaad">{{Cite web|url=https://www.glaad.org/reference/style|title=Media Reference Guide|website=[[wikipedia:GLAAD|GLAAD]]|postscript=. (Citing [[wikipedia:Associated Press|A.P.]] and [[wikipedia:The Washington Post|Washington Post]] style guides).|access-date=2019-12-23|df=mdy-all}}</ref> It was replaced by ''[[wikipedia:Gay|gay]]'' in the 1970s, adopted first by the homosexual community itself.<ref name="ross">{{Cite book|last=Ross|first=E. Wayne|year=2006|title=The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4qFMqjxte9IC|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-6909-5}}</ref>

As lesbians forged more public identities, the phrase "gay and lesbian" became more common.<ref name="swain">{{Cite news|last=Swain|first=Keith W.|date=2007-06-21|title=Gay Pride Needs New Direction|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2007/06/21/gay-pride-needs-new-direction/|newspaper=[[wikipedia:The Denver Post|The Denver Post]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818103703if_/https://www.denverpost.com/2007/06/21/gay-pride-needs-new-direction/|archive-date=2018-08-18|publication-place=[[wikipedia:Denver, Colorado|Denver, Colorado]]|access-date=2008-07-05|df=mdy-all}}</ref> A dispute as to whether the primary focus of their political aims should be [[wikipedia:Feminism|feminism]] or [[wikipedia:Gay rights|gay rights]] led to the dissolution of some lesbian organizations, including the [[wikipedia:Daughters of Bilitis|Daughters of Bilitis]], which disbanded in 1970 following disputes over which goal should take precedence.<ref name="esterberg">{{Cite journal|last=Esterberg|first=Kristen|year=1994|title=From Accommodation to Liberation: A Social Movement Analysis of Lesbians in the Homophile Movement|journal=Gender and Society|volume=8|issue=3|pages=424–443|doi=10.1177/089124394008003008|s2cid=144795512}}</ref> As equality was a priority for [[wikipedia:Lesbian feminism|lesbian feminists]], disparity of roles between men and women or [[wikipedia:Butch and femme|butch and femme]] were viewed as [[wikipedia:Patriarchy|patriarchal]]. Lesbian feminists eschewed [[wikipedia:Gender role|gender role]] play that had been pervasive in bars as well as the perceived [[wikipedia:Chauvinism|chauvinism]] of [[wikipedia:Gay men|gay men]]; many lesbian feminists refused to work with gay men, or take up their causes.<ref name="faderman">{{Cite book|last=Faderman|first=Lillian|year=1991|title=Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=0-14-017122-3|pages=210–211}}</ref>

Lesbians who held the [[wikipedia:Essentialism|essentialist]] view, that they had been born homosexual and used the descriptor "lesbian" to define sexual attraction, often considered the separatist opinions of lesbian-feminists to be detrimental to the cause of gay rights.{{R|faderman|pages=217–218}} Bisexual and transgender people also sought recognition as legitimate categories within the larger minority community.<ref name="swain" />

After the elation of change following group action in the 1969 [[wikipedia:Stonewall riots|Stonewall riots]] in New York City, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, some gays and lesbians became less accepting of [[wikipedia:Bisexual|bisexual]] or [[wikipedia:Transgender|transgender]] people.<ref name="leli">{{Cite book|last1=Leli|first1=Ubaldo|last2=Drescher|first2=Jack|year=2005|title=Transgender Subjectivities: A Clinician's Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QiJryCzrZmYC|publisher=Haworth Press|isbn=978-0-7890-2576-0}}</ref><ref name="alexander">{{Cite book|last1=Alexander|first1=Jonathan|first2=Karen|last2=Yescavage|year=2004|title=Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of The Others|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2SOe4igsrbgC|publisher=Haworth Press|isbn=978-1-56023-287-2}}</ref> Critics{{Like whom|date=September 2018}} said that transgender people were acting out [[wikipedia:Stereotypes|stereotypes]] and bisexuals were simply gay men or lesbian women who were afraid to [[wikipedia:Coming out|come out]] and be honest about their identity.<ref name="leli" /> Each community has struggled to develop its own identity, including whether and how to align with other [[wikipedia:Gender|gender]] and [[wikipedia:Sexuality|sexuality]]-based communities, at times excluding other subgroups; these conflicts continue to this day.<ref name="alexander" /> LGBTQ activists and artists have created posters to raise consciousness about the issue since the movement began.<ref name="exhibition">{{Cite web|year=2016|title=Out of The Closet and Into The Streets! Posters on LGBTQ Struggles and Celebrations – Exhibition Guide|url=https://www.politicalgraphics.org/out-of-the-closet|website=[[wikipedia:Center for the Study of Political Graphics|Center for the Study of Political Graphics]]|access-date=2016-10-01|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

From about 1988, activists began to use the initialism ''LGBT'' in the United States.<ref name="aera">{{Cite book|year=1988|title=Research, policy and practice: Annual meeting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PiglAQAAIAAJ|author=American Educational Research Association|publisher=Verlag AERA}}</ref> Not until the 1990s within the movement did gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people gain equal respect.<ref name="alexander" /> This spurred some organizations to adopt new names, as the [[wikipedia:GLBT Historical Society|GLBT Historical Society]] did in 1999. Although the LGBT community has seen much controversy regarding universal acceptance of different member groups (bisexual and transgender individuals, in particular, have sometimes been marginalized by the larger LGBT community), the term ''LGBT'' has been a positive symbol of inclusion.<ref name="shankle" /><ref name="alexander" />

Despite the fact that ''LGBT'' does not nominally encompass all individuals in smaller communities (see [[#Variants|§ Variants]] below), the term is generally accepted to include those not specifically identified in the four-letter initialism.<ref name="shankle" /><ref name="alexander" /> Overall, the use of the term ''LGBT'' has, over time, largely aided in bringing otherwise marginalized individuals into the general community.<ref name="shankle" /><ref name="alexander" /> Transgender actress [[wikipedia:Candis Cayne|Candis Cayne]] in 2009 described the LGBT community as "the last great minority," noting that "We can still be harassed openly" and be "called out on television."<ref name="advocate">{{Cite magazine|date=March 2009|title=I Advocate…|magazine=[[wikipedia:The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|issue=1024|page=80}}</ref>

In 2016, [[wikipedia:GLAAD|GLAAD]]'s Media Reference Guide states that ''LGBTQ'' is the preferred initialism, being more inclusive of younger members of the communities who embrace ''[[wikipedia:Queer|queer]]'' as a self-descriptor.<ref name="ring">{{Cite mgazine|last=Ring|first=Trudy|date=2016-10-26|title=Expanding the Acronym: GLAAD Adds the Q to LGBT|url=http://www.advocate.com/media/2016/10/26/expanding-acronym-glaad-adds-q-lgbt|magazine=[[wikipedia:The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|access-date=2016-10-30|df=mdy-all}}</ref> However, some people consider ''queer'' to be a derogatory term originating in hate speech and reject it, especially among older members of the community.<ref name="nadal">{{Cite book|last=Nadal|first=Kevin|date=2017-04-15|title=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lVYoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1384|page=1384|publisher=SAGE Publications|location=[[wikipedia:Thousand Oaks, California|Thousand Oaks, California]]|isbn=978-1-4833-8427-6|oclc=994139871|access-date=2019-01-03|df=mdy-all}}</ref>