This “alphabet soup” allows younger people to self-identify their sexual orientation, gender performance, and body. It stands for the original lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ). At this point, older people might stop, but young, college-age people continue with intersex and allies (LGBTQIA), and with a second Q for questioning and A for asexual (LGBTQQIAA).
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