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Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by Dylan16807 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:59PM (#30619866)
The term has been LGBT basically from the start, hasn't it? Being iffy on new optional extensions is one thing, trying to act like the T is new gets a much less charitable view from me.
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Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by kerneloftruth on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @04:42PM (#30620402)
It was added in the '90s.

https://www.salon.com/2007/10/08/lgbt/

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Re:The new silent majority: People who don't tweet by Dylan16807 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:02PM (#30622432)
According to wikipedia "LGBT" was from 1988 and "LGB" itself was spreading in the "mid to late 80s".

If you have a stronger source I'm open to being convinced, but otherwise I don't find one anecdotal account very convincing. I can't easily get to the cited books to get any more clarity they might have.

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