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🤔 Have you heard of #LGBTQQIP2SAA?

🔤 Far from being just a string of letters, this abbreviation can tell us the story of the modern #LGBTQ+ rights movement.

🌈 From 'homosexual' to 'GLB' and beyond, here's a brief history of queer initialism. 🧵 A fist painted in the color...
🌍 While LGBTQ+ people have always existed, the concepts of sexual and gender identities we are familiar with today are relatively new.

✒️ It was not until 1869 that the term 'homosexual' was created by Károly Mária Kertbeny – the first neutral word for same-sex desire. Photograph of Károly Mária ...
🤫 'Gay' – a 12th-century word meaning 'carefree' – became an underground word for being homosexual in the early 20th century, and picked up pace in the 1950s and ‘60s.

✊ The all-encompassing term was embraced by the community and used by the gay rights movement. Protesters on the street ho...
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