Activists Now Identify as LGBTQQICAPF2K+
Some members of the gay-rights community are adding the letter ‘K,’ for “kink,” to the ever-expanding acronym of identities.
The official acronym is now LGBTQQICAPF2K+ according to the magazine The Gay UK. That stands for “Lesbian,” “Gay,” “Bisexual,” “Transgender,” “Queer,” “Questioning,” “Intersex,” “Curious,” “Asexual,” “Agender,” “Ally,” “Pansexual,” “Polysexual,” “Friends and family,” “Two-spirit” and “Kink.”
The Gay UK said the acronym has been growing since the 90s “out of a need to move away from the limiting ‘gay community’” and to “encompass any community that defines itself as anything but heterosexual or cisgender.”
Just no. “Kink” is not a sexual orientation. People with sexual kinks do not face any structural or systematic discrimination as a result of those proclivities.https://t.co/o3pjtMDnMf
— Sister Outrider (@ClaireShrugged) January 28, 2018
If the rainbow umbrella covers absolutely everyone, it's meaningless. It's just an umbrella, as opposed to specific shelter designed to protect marginalised people.
— Sister Outrider (@ClaireShrugged) January 28, 2018
But other members of the community aren’t on board with “kink.”
Claire Heuchan, a self-described black radical feminist who blogs under the name Sister Outrider, said people with kinks can’t be in the club because they don’t face “any structural or systemic discrimination as a result of those proclivities.” (Read more from “Activists Now Identify as LGBTQQICAPF2K+” HERE)
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