A younger
generation of activists who view gender and sexuality as too fluid and
imprecise to be captured by just four letters representing lesbians,
gays, bisexuals and transgender individuals are adding to the familiar LGBT acronym.
"When you see terms like
L.G.B.T.Q.I.A., it’s because people are seeing all the things that fall
out of the binary, and demanding that a name come into being," said Jack
Halberstam, a transgender professor at the University of Southern
California, speaking about the increasingly popular acronym.
