matzolesbian:

just my onion but the result of these wonderful discussions about the complexities of different lgbt experiences shouldn’t be a mess of increasingly meaningless and hyperspecific identifiers, but instead an understanding that The Gay Experience, The Lesbian Experience, The Bisexual Experience, and The Trans Experience include infinite multitudes and iterations. 

this way we can stop penalizing people for not living up to a single accepted version of said experience and learn to broaden our understandings of what these identifiers entail. 

there is no singular, Correct way to be lgbt, so long as you fit the basic definition of at least one of the letters. i am so much happier saying “i’m a lesbian and this what that looks like to me” and being able to connect with other lesbians, than i would be saying “i’m a [x]sexual [x]romantic and also maybe [here] on the ace spectrum because of these reasons and etc etc etc” where every new qualifier would only further isolate that experience, making it harder to find a community of people with shared realities.

i’ve also talked about before that these labels are invaluable when discussing sociopolitical power dynamics, and the more we diverge into hyperspecific labels, the less coherently we’re able to discuss these important issues that affect us all.