Editing LGBTQ community (section)

==Terminology==
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[[File:Stonewall_Inn_5_pride_weekend_2016.jpg|thumb|262px|[[Greenwich Village]], a [[Gay village|gay neighborhood]] in [[LGBT culture in New York City|Manhattan]], is home to the [[Stonewall Inn]], shown here adorned with [[Rainbow flag (LGBT)|rainbow pride flags]].<ref name="Gay Greenwich Village 1">{{cite web|url=https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/why-new-york-city-is-a-major-destination-for-lgbt-travelers/|title=Why New York City Is a Major Destination for LGBT Travelers|author=Julia Goicochea|publisher=The Culture Trip|date=August 16, 2017|access-date=February 2, 2019|archive-date=January 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200102084000/https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/why-new-york-city-is-a-major-destination-for-lgbt-travelers/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Gay Greenwich Village 2">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/nyregion/stonewall-inn-named-national-monument-a-first-for-gay-rights-movement.html|title=Stonewall Inn Named National Monument, a First for the Gay Rights Movement|author=Eli Rosenberg|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 24, 2016|access-date=June 25, 2016|archive-date=May 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200506010607/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/nyregion/stonewall-inn-named-national-monument-a-first-for-gay-rights-movement.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Gay Greenwich Village 3">{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/diversity/stonewall.htm |title=Workforce Diversity The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562 |publisher=National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior |access-date=April 21, 2016 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306222059/http://www.nps.gov/diversity/stonewall.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>]]

''LGBT'', or ''GLBT'', is an [[initialism]] that stands for [[lesbian]], [[gay]], [[bisexual]], and [[transgender]]. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism ''LGB'', which was used to replace the term ''gay'' – when referring to the community as a whole – beginning in various forms largely in the early 1990s.<ref>''Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary,'' Volume 1, Part 1. Gale Research Co., 1985,  {{ISBN|978-0-8103-0683-7}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=JDtUAAAAMAAJ Factsheet five, Issues 32–36, Mike Gunderloy, 1989] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906161715/https://books.google.com/books?id=JDtUAAAAMAAJ |date=2015-09-06 }}{{full citation needed|reason=not clear how to find this in FF5; this is incorrect|date=February 2023}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=June 2023|reason=This paragraph is a target of historical revisionism and needs a source that's more authoritative about the usage of the term.}}

While the movement had always included all LGBT people, the one-word unifying term in the 1950s through the early 1980s was ''gay'' (see [[Gay liberation]]). Throughout the 1970s and '80s, a number of groups with lesbian members, and [[pro-feminist]] politics, preferred the more representative, ''lesbian and gay''.<ref name=HoffmanTerms>{{Cite book|last=Hoffman|first=Amy|title=An Army of Ex-Lovers: My life at the Gay Community News|date=2007|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|isbn=978-1558496217|pages=79–81}}</ref> By the early nineties, as more groups shifted to names based on ''lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender'' (LGBT), ''[[queer]]'' was also increasingly reclaimed as a one-word alternative to the ever-lengthening string of initials, especially when used by radical political groups, some of which had been using "queer" since the '80s.<ref name=HoffmanTerms/>

The initialism, as well as common variants such as ''LGBTQ'', have been adopted into the mainstream in the 1990s<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ferentinos|first=Susan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UzgHBgAAQBAJ&q=lgbt+history&pg=PR8|title=Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites|date=2014-12-16|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7591-2374-8|language=ar|access-date=2020-10-02|archive-date=2022-03-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309200704/https://books.google.com/books?id=UzgHBgAAQBAJ&q=lgbt+history&pg=PR8|url-status=live}}</ref> as an [[umbrella term]] for use when labeling topics about [[sexuality and gender identity-based cultures|sexuality and gender identity]]. For example, the LGBT Movement Advancement Project termed community centers, which have services specific to those members of the LGBT community, as "LGBT community centers" in comprehensive studies of such centers around the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Centerlink|title=2008 Community Center Survey Report|url=http://www.lgbtmap.org/file/2008-lgbt-community-center-survey-report.pdf|website=LGBT Movement Advancement Project|access-date=August 29, 2008|archive-date=March 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200323181926/https://www.lgbtmap.org/file/2008-lgbt-community-center-survey-report.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

The initialism ''LGBT'' is intended to emphasize a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. It may refer to anyone who is [[non-heterosexual]] or non-[[cisgender]], instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.<ref name="Shankle-2006">{{cite book |last=Shankle |first=Michael D. |title=The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health: A Practitioner's Guide To Service |publisher=Haworth Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-56023-496-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pUUyLSKD5voC |access-date=2020-05-08 |archive-date=2015-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906170653/https://books.google.com/books?id=pUUyLSKD5voC |url-status=live }}</ref> Recognize this inclusion as a popular variant that adds the letter Q for those who identify as [[queer]] or are [[Questioning (sexuality and gender)|questioning]] their sexual identity; ''LGBTQ'' has been recorded since 1996.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rkUEAQAAIAAJ |title=The Santa Cruz County in-queery, Volume 9, Santa Cruz Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Community Center, 1996 |date=2008-11-01 |access-date=2011-10-23 |archive-date=2013-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510043329/http://books.google.com/books?id=rkUEAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }} page 690</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/05/23/civilities-what-does-the-acronym-lgbtq-stand-for/|access-date=February 19, 2018|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|title=Civilities, What does the acronym LGBTQ stand for?|archive-date=January 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103082543/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/05/23/civilities-what-does-the-acronym-lgbtq-stand-for/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Disagreement between what precise wording is best is still present in 2023. Some propose adding more letters to make the participation of those groups explicit.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heidi |date=2022-08-22 |title=The Guide to LGBTQ Acronyms: Is it LGBT or LGBTQ+ or LGBTQIA+? |url=https://thecentercv.org/blog/the-guide-to-lgbtq-acronyms-is-it-lgbt-or-lgbtq-or-lgbtqia/ |access-date=2023-07-07 |website=The Center |language=en-US}}</ref> Detractors of this approach argue that adding letters implicitly excludes others or makes for worse branding.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}