Timeline for Was "L" placed at the beginning of the LGBT acronym because of the AIDS crisis?
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| Apr 21, 2023 at 13:11 | comment | added | OpenAI was the last straw | @Michael I wonder if part of the euphonic benefit of LGBT over GLBT is that the former is harder to misread or spoonerize as GBLT, which is absolutely a type of sandwich with guacamole, bacon, lettuce, and tomato. That said, I'm pretty sure I've also seen an LGBLT on a menu somewhere, but that was probably a deliberate reference. | |
| S Apr 21, 2023 at 7:46 | history | suggested | obataku | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 20, 2023 at 17:18 | comment | added | David Conrad | I remember when it used to alternate between the two. I think the reason it settled down to one form is because the terms started to appear more frequently in the press and news standards like the AP Stylesheet had to choose one form. That then drove adoption of that form in society. But I don't have a source for that. | |
| Apr 20, 2023 at 10:43 | comment | added | IMSoP | @ChrisMelville Wikipedia describes that as "a matter of some dispute", and includes citations from both the OED and Merriam-Webster demonstrating that "acronym" covering both types is common, and not universally considered "incorrect". Personally, I find the split unnecessary and confusing - how do you classify mixed pronunciations like "JPEG", or variable ones like "SQL"? | |
| Apr 20, 2023 at 9:18 | answer | added | West Is Best | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 20, 2023 at 8:11 | comment | added | Chris Melville | English technicality: LGBT is not an acronym, it’s an initialism. Initialisms have letters said individually. Acronyms have letters pronounced as a single word. AIDS is an acronym. | |
| Apr 20, 2023 at 0:23 | comment | added | Michael | There's also GBLT, but that sounds too much like a sandwich... | |
| Apr 19, 2023 at 21:09 | comment | added | gnasher729 | You say "Ladies and Gentlemen", not "Gentlemen and Ladies". | |
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| Apr 19, 2023 at 19:50 | comment | added | RonJohn | when well meaning white people struggled to learn to say “black” or “African American” And young blacks in that era called themselves "black" (like, you know, the Black Panther Party) or Afro-American. | |
| Apr 19, 2023 at 19:48 | comment | added | RonJohn | "Ell gee" just sounds smoother than "Gee ell". That's probably why the switch happened. | |
| Apr 19, 2023 at 16:40 | history | edited | Avery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2023 at 14:53 | comment | added | Obie 2.0 | Anything is possible, but this kind of sounds like the equivalent of a folk etymology. For instance: bisexual people did not show solidarity in the face of the AIDS crisis, so they were put near the back? Transgender people were the least supportive of all? | |
| Apr 19, 2023 at 14:23 | comment | added | Cristobol Polychronopolis | I think you meant "emphatically" rather then "empathetically" but I'm not allowed to make such a small edit. | |
| Apr 19, 2023 at 13:33 | comment | added | ScottishTapWater | A far more likely explanation is that LGBT is just easier to say than GLBT... | |
| Apr 19, 2023 at 13:31 | history | edited | Avery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2023 at 2:34 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 19, 2023 at 2:27 | vote | accept | Avery | ||
| Apr 19, 2023 at 1:31 | answer | added | Ray Butterworth | timeline score: 24 | |
| Apr 19, 2023 at 1:27 | answer | added | DavePhD | timeline score: 8 | |
| Apr 18, 2023 at 20:27 | comment | added | DavePhD | @benrg is this source more acceptable? daphealth.org/… | |
| Apr 18, 2023 at 19:03 | comment | added | benrg | Your first source is a corporate blog of a recruitment agency, and your second source is an unsigned op-ed in "The Student News Site of Taylor Allderdice High School". Are those notable sources? The earliest version of the claim I found in a brief search is a medium.com essay from 2016. The author of that one is an adjunct associate professor of religious studies with a PhD in Christian Spirituality. | |
| Apr 18, 2023 at 16:46 | history | asked | Avery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |