Anarchocommunist, environmentalist, feminist, LGBT
I'm really not comfortable with the idea of 'LGBT' being an ideological label.
I'm curious, why not?
The implication of 'LGBT' being an ideological label is that LGBT people can be circumscribed as having a particular set of views that are universal enough for this to make sense, which leads to the marginalization at best and ostracism at worst of those who don't share those views. While it's probably fair to say that most LGBT people, at least in the United States, are 'socially liberal' broadly speaking, this isn't
definitionally true. LGBT people don't even agree on the politics of LGBT issues! We don't even agree on the usefulness of the term 'LGBT'!
I guess 'LGBT' could be used as a modifier for other ideological descriptors in the same way that one can be 'a black progressive' or 'a Western libertarian' and so forth. So if LGBT is being used as a modifier for anarchocommunist, environmentalist, and feminist I'm a lot less uncomfortable with that. But its placement at the end of the list implies that it's meant to be taken as a description of an ideology itself, which is what I object to.
