nonamediscourse:

just so you know, “bi & trans people weren’t always part of the community” is actual TERF rhetoric.

bi & trans people were literally the first to fight back at stonewall. trans women of color kicked off the organized political resistance to homophobia and transphobia that created our community.

we were not “let in” later, we have always belonged here. “the acronym” didn’t exist until later. in the 60s & 70s, terminology was different. bi people were just considered gay or lesbian, or “h*mophiles”, instead of “h*mosexuals”. trans people were often considered gay, or “inverts”. but, slowly, our ideas about gender and attraction changed. and as how we thought of ourselves changed, how we presented ourselves did too. so we moved from gay, or gay and lesbian, to glbt, and then to lgbt.

it was not ever a push to “accept new members”, it was a change in how we presented ourselves.

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