LGBTQIA2+: The Alphabet Soup of Sexuality (Back to Basics: Part Two)

Ben Papadopoulos
Nov 6 · 6 min read

Tack on all the letters you want, but there’s a better way to approximate what the acronym aims to describe.

Kim Petras, queen of my heart¹. © Kim Petras, 2019

As I learned by writing my own theory of gender, it seems that the most fundamental concepts can be some of the most complicated. But the concepts themselves are a lot less puzzling than the language we use to describe them, especially when…

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Ben Papadopoulos

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Linguist, Ph.D. Student at UC Berkeley

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