“Sometimes an abbreviation or acronym is more than the sum of its letters.
Take the well-known abbreviation LGBT and longer variants, like LGBTQQIAAP. Those letters represent our entire community, lesbians; gays; bisexuals; transgender people; and those identifying as queer, intersex, asexual, and more.
Did you notice the letter with which all those abbreviations start? That L represents a long history and a lot of controversy in the gay rights movement.
About 70 years ago, people sexually attracted to the same gender used to be called homosexuals. That word didn’t age well…”