#lgbpa

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Lavender Relationship Pride Flag

Lavender relationship (formerly lavender marriage): a duaric mixed relationship (between a man and a woman), undertaken as a relationship of convenience to conceal the socially stigmatized orientation of one or both partners; a duaric couple in which one or both members have marginalized orientation(s)/are attractionally or affectionally variant/non-conforming.

The relation is often amorous (romantic/queerplatonic) or gamous (marital). -Ap

[airagorncharda]

Ay I've never heard of LGBPA before, could I ask what it stands for?

Yup! It stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Pan, Ace/Aro.

Or, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual/Biromantic, Pansexual/Panromantic, Asexual/Aromantic 

NOTE: The use of the acronym “LGBPA” is for discussions that are specifically discussing about sexual and romantic attraction, in contexts that are NOT relevant to gender variance (thus omitting the T).

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Gay Woman Pride Flag

Similar to “gay man” concept, a lot of women describe themselves as gay, some because they are wlw but not sure if they are lesbians or not, some simply because they are not straight and other because they aren’t attracted to men while not essentially attracted to other women.

- Ap

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LGBPA+ Pride Flag

LGBQAP+: lesbian, gay, bi, questioning, aro/ace or poly/pan.

Q is sometimes used as queer too, but note this is for marginalized orientations (MO) equivalent of LGBTQIAPN+, see also BPQUA, ITNB, QTI & LBTQ+.

Note this is not the same as LGB since this one was co-opted by TERFs and #DroptheT supporters. Intersectional sub-divisions do not mean exclusion nor non-inclusion, this flag isn’t for T exclusionists.

Trans people can be LGBPA+ (unstraight) or straight, a lot of activists understand why we must separate orientation movements from gender/sex ones, this isn’t capping for anti-collectivism nor separatism.

- Ap

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Unstraight-passing Pride Flag

Unstraight-passability: being perceived (passable) as not straight; having a nonstraight characteristics/presentation; considering your appearance or expression as strain’t (straightn’t). Synonymy with queer-passing and gay-passing.

Passing/blending/assimilating has become controversial as “passing” can imply that one is not genuinely what they are passing as. But since many people are there using -presenting and -expressive terms, folks surely can use unstraight-passing to describe themselves.

This flag explicitly is in favor of self-determination, we won’t accept BERFs and other REG/monosexists using it to delegitimize ultrics and duaric queerics. Also this isn’t essentially the same as being gender nonconforming, since some can conform gender roles while not conforming orientation cues. -Ap

[airagorncharda]

LGBPA?

Lesbian, gay, bi, pan, ace

It’s an acronym for issues specifically about sexuality and NOT about gender, so the T isn’t present. 

I don’t remember what post I used this in, and it’s possible that I used it incorrectly (because it’s rare to have issues of sexuality that don’t have intersectional ties to gender, especially for trans people), but the intent behind using it is for the reason stated above.

[airagorncharda]

quick question, i saw something you wrote on a post and you used LGBPA, what does the p stand for?

The P stands for Pansexual / Panromantic, which refers to people who are attracted to others regardless of gender. Put a different way, it describes people for whom gender is not a factor in whether they are attracted to a person or not. 

NOTE: I don’t remember which post I used that in (If I did I would link it), but if I used the acronym “LGBPA” then I was specifically discussing issues of sexual and romantic attraction, in contexts that are NOT relevant to gender variance (thus omitting the T).

I hope this helps!