Editing LGBT (section)

=== Queer ===
{{Main|Queer}}
Many people have looked for a generic term to replace the numerous existing initialisms.<ref name="Sexual Identities, Queer Politi">{{cite book | last=Atkins | first=Dawn | title=Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities | publisher=Haworth Press | year=1998 | isbn=978-0-7890-0463-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rd31TPHaxdEC | access-date=2 July 2015 | archive-date=6 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906162509/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rd31TPHaxdEC | url-status=live }}</ref> Words such as ''[[queer]]'' (an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual, or cisgender) and ''[[rainbow flag (LGBT movement)|rainbow]]'' have been tried, but most have not been widely adopted.<ref name="Sexual Identities, Queer Politi" /><ref name="Forging Gay Identities">{{cite book | last=Armstrong | first=Elizabeth A. | title=Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950–1994 | publisher=University of Chicago Press | year=2002 | isbn=978-0-226-02694-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jnYy6hSdocAC | access-date=5 July 2008 | archive-date=22 November 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122141703/http://books.google.com/books?id=jnYy6hSdocAC | url-status=live }}</ref> ''Queer'' has many negative connotations to older people who remember the word as a taunt and insult and such (negative) usage of the term continues.<ref name="Sexual Identities, Queer Politi" /><ref name="Forging Gay Identities" /> Many younger people also understand ''queer'' to be more politically charged than ''LGBT''.<ref name="Forging Gay Identities" /><ref name="It's Your World">{{cite book | last=Halpin | first=Mikki | title=It's Your World—If You Don't Like It, Change It: Activism for Teenagers | publisher=Simon and Schuster | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-689-87448-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ud3Zzo2-VMsC | access-date=2 July 2015 | archive-date=6 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906152241/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ud3Zzo2-VMsC | url-status=live }}</ref>