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LGBTQ+ activism doesn't just involve fighting for rights for people who fall within those labels.

It has evolved onto fighting for rights of EVERYONE who is currently being harrassed, targetted, and discriminate against. It's activism for human rights for everyone.

Not every LGBTQ+ activist agrees with this evolution, but a large group do. I'm personally in that group.

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So you are okay with this guy dishonestly connecting Google disciplining this workers for an unrelated issue to LGBT rights?

Would you be okay with a story from FoxNews saying Dems has a policy of targeting black people because they happened to throw out a black activist disrupting their meeting in the name of gun rights?

Yeah that is pretty disgusting. By doing this, it steals a label with a 'fairly' clear meaning, agenda, and history to prop up any old complaint. This is beyond disingenuous and actually will end up causing more harm to LGBT issues in the future.

Meh. Tell that to the "cis gays" getting hate on Twitter. I had enough "it's for your own good" before I was old enough to stop going to church.

It has evolved onto fighting for rights of EVERYONE who is currently being harrassed, targetted, and discriminate against. It's activism for human rights for everyone.

How is that different from just saying former LGBT+ activists have decided they need to broaden their focus to more general human rights activism?

This is like saying "Vegetarianism doesn't just involve eating vegetables. A lot of vegetarians have started eating meat."

It's absurd to claim that LGBTQ+ activism is about fighting for the rights of everyone who is harrassed, targeted, and discriminated against. The set of groups has expanded, but there are still groups being left out.

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