QUILTBAG

quiltbag English Alternative forms quiltbag Etymology Contrived acronym from en quilt and en bag, en Sadie Lee 1 as an inclusive self-designation for minority sexual and gender identities.2006 October Sadie Lee Final Call: Kate Bornstein Diva Magazine 125 114 Adjective - en Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transsexual), Bisexual, Asexual, and/or Gay/Genderqueer. from 2006 en 2010-09-17 Separate but equal is still unequal S. E. Smith This Ain’t Livin’ http://meloukhia.net/2010/09/separate_but_equal_is_still_unequal.html 2012-05-22 There’s a reason that people supporting marriage and fighting hardest for it are primarily middle class white gays and lesbians, because, for them, marriage may be the ‘final frontier,’ while other members of the QUILTBAG community are fighting with issues like ‘how to stay alive when your parents have kicked you out of the house for being gay’ and ‘how to get hormone treatments when you are an undocumented immigrant making less than minimum wage.’ https://web.archive.org/web/20100923203804/http://meloukhia.net/2010/09/separate_but_equal_is_still_unequal.html 23 September 2010 en 2011-02-15 Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction Wendy Gay Pearson Hollinger, Veronica; Gordon, Joan Liverpool University Press 9781846315015 25320322M 47 http://books.google.com/books?id=7ZRBIT3Yl5IC&pg=PA47&dq=QUILTBAG And so not all queer writing is quiltbag, and neither is all quiltbag writing queer. en 2011-03-28 The Games We Play: The Straight Male Gamer's Privilege Ouyang Dan Bitch Magazine http://bitchmagazine.org/post/the-games-we-play-the-straight-male-gamers-privilege 2012-05-22 I doubt that there's a lack of QUILTBAG gamers who want an inclusive experience, and who are still feeling the sting of other oversights BioWare has made to their personhood. https://web.archive.org/web/20120418215125/http://bitchmagazine.org/post/the-games-we-play-the-straight-male-gamers-privilege 18 April 2012 en 2012-03-06 Reaching into the QUILTBAG: the Evolving World of Queer Speculative Fiction Julia Rios Apex Magazine http://apex-magazine.com/2012/03/06/reaching-into-the-quiltbag-the-evolving-world-of-queer-speculative-fiction/ 2012-05-22 Over the past few decades, stories have slowly changed from being the kind where the author first explains how QUILTBAG people might come to exist and be acceptable (see Joanna Russ’s The Female Man, in which a group of women become lesbians because they’re stuck for centuries on a planet without men) to the kinds where we take it for granted that QUILTBAG people need no speculative explanation (see Elizabeth Bear’s Carnival, in which there’s a planet run by lesbians because some radical lesbian separatists—people who already exist in present day Earth culture—decided to start their own colony). https://web.archive.org/web/20120517001316/http://apex-magazine.com/2012/03/06/reaching-into-the-quiltbag-the-evolving-world-of-queer-speculative-fiction/ 17 May 2012 Usage notes See the usage notes about LGBT. Coordinate terms see the list at LGBT Translations Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans, Bisexual, Asexual, or Gay/Genderqueer Polish: pl QUILTBAG n See also References en Intersex LGBTQ