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comment by aidrocsid
aidrocsid  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why L, G, B, and T together?

The sexuality side of things and the gender identity side of things might not be the same sort of phenomena themselves, but they're treated the same way. Both gay people and trans people come under fire for gender-related taboos. Sometimes bigoted individuals don't even distinguish between the two or even consider a trans person to basically be a more extreme gay person. When you take camp and drag into consideration you can see how things might look blurry from even a well meaning outside perspective.

When you're being attacked for more or less the same reasons by more or less the same people who don't even bother to distinguish between you, you might as well band together.