Not sure where to post this - anyway, the Cincinnati GLBTQ center has ceased bricks & mortar operations and is going all online.

Hopefully, they will eventually become inclusive enough to include all the letters of the alphabet.

 

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/gay-lesbian-community-center-in-northside-closes-becomes-online-only-resource-for-glbtq-community

Am I hopelessly out of the gender identity/sexual orientation loop if I admit I have no idea what the Q stands for or even could stand for?

Queer.

pretty sure it's Quimbobites

I thought it was questioning?

Just so everyone is aware, there is now a longer version: LGBTQIAAP

I thought it was questioning?

 

It's both really.

Queer.

 

Wouldn't that just be redundant? Or are there now Queer people who aren't Gay, and vice versa?

 

I thought it was questioning?

 

That's an orientation now?  Maybe we could just cap it off with an "M" for "Miscellaneous".

Etc

I thought it was questioning?

 

It's both really.

 

Yes, this.

 

Identifying as Queer is an assertion that one rejects the categories associated with straight/LG/B, I believe. Including Questioning infers support for people who don't know where they fit; usually a transitional state rather than an "orientation," per se.

 

Makes sense to me that the brick&mortar would be closing. It's part of the societal acceptance and normalization process. Sort of like how all the explicitly gay bars (except the Serpent) outside of Downtown/OTR have closed. It got to the point that (e.g.) Bronz (a gay bar) was no more or less gay than (e.g.) Mayday (a "straight" bar). Now there are gay-owned bars, e.g. C&D, which don't bother identifying as gay bars, because there's no real distinction.

 

Still, it's sad Golden Lions closed. Since that was the city's oldest (first?) gay bar from the '60s. Clifton seems to be a lot less gay than when I was a kid living there. The gay scene has been diluted around the city, and the concentrations have moved to Northside and OTR. Clifton was pretty much the gayborhood in the '80s/'90s. Though the Northside scene was picking up, even then, with the Crazy Ladies' Bookstore (closed in the early aughties, I think) and then the GLBTQ Center...which of course just closed. From what I could tell, it was a bunch of lesbians that really started gentrifying Northside.