im a lesbian lol but i prefer no lables

LGBT

I'm torn between queer/trans and alphabet soup. I like to try to stay as inclusive as possible. I always feel bad when I leave people out without realizing it, so I try to stick to blanket terms.

lgbtq or queer community casually

gsm only if i'm referring to other sexual minorities as well

At this point, I just prefer to headdesk until just before permanent brain damage XP. I am terrible with acronyms, to the point where I keep forgetting which one is the NAACP and which is the NCAA. There is almost no difference! D:

So when it comes to this particular acronym, I go with the most popular one that doesn't have too many letters. It's for the best.

i put lgbtq, but personally i think itd be better to not include the T. Being trans is not a sexuality and does not belong in there

I like LGBT or maybe LGBTQ. I'm personally very uncomfortable with a lot of id'd "queer" politics and the ways class and education are communicated socially within radical queer communities, especially since people with upper/middle class, bicoastal roots will appropriate cultural symbols carelessly. and there's a line between reclaiming slurs and then throwing them around without any self-awareness, and queer IS a slur. like queer people who live in semi-progressive communities throw the word around, while I come from a rural place where the word is dangerous to LGBT people themselves at the hands of straight people. long story short--I think anyone who wants to reclaim a slur as an identity needs to be very aware of its social power AND the position they occupy in being able to inhabit that identity comfortably.
The long alphabet soup-type acronyms aren't my fav precisely because they try to include everyone. If you are both cis and het, you're not systematically oppressed for your sexual orientation or gender presentation. allies and cishet asexuals are neither attracted to the same gender nor identify outside of their birth-assigned sex. that is also, I believe, the qualification for id'ing as queer.
GSM includes all sexual minorities, including kinks, ones that are not queer, and ones that are actively harmful to people. so no.
so I like LGBT.

I like gender queer

I see LGBT so much that I just use that.

I like GSM the best.

Queer/trans* can be problematic because queer has specific political connotations that not everyone in the GSM community embraces.

I like the alphabet soup

I like the term LGBT. Using twenty thousand letters turns the acronym into alphabet soup. No matter how many letters we add, someone will still be excluded. I still haven't seen a single LGBT-related acronym that has included pansexuals or genderqueer people, and I've met many more people who were pansexual or genderqueer than people who are asexual or intersex.

LGBTQA is the one I hear most often. I feel that "queer" includes everyone who isn't already caught under LGBTA. I also understand that "queer" can have negative connotations, even though I personally like it, and that might make some people uncomfortable. I also once heard that the Q stood for "questioning", but it's been a while since I've heard anyone say that.

I think queer is pretty inclusive of everything, and though it's a reclaimed slur, is classic and timeless no matter how the definitions of what is included in the community changes. And openness is important. When the very terminology is acessable to more people, we have less reasons to divide over issues and have a more cohesive community.

LGBTQA.

I once heard a suggestion that we change the acronym to "Outside the Relationship, Gender, And Sexuality Mainstream..." or ORGASM. I could just imagine the heyday in academic papers and news articles, "The ORGASM community..." But all jokes aside, it sounds a little too hipster for me.

Anyway, I like Queer/Trans* except that... I don't consider all monosexual gay/lesbian people to be Queer, with a capital Q. Queer in that sense comes with an package of political ideology and a devotion to equality and social justice along multiple, intersecting oppressions... It's a stance against the White Gay Movement, White Feminism, Transphobic Radical Feminism, Classist Gay Capitalism and Gay Assimilationism. It puts Trans* people of color and queer homeless youth first.

And I don't like any of the "alphabet soup," or "LGBTQIAAPPjkdsahfkbah flbgdhvblargh" because 1. Allies are NOT queer and do not share the same struggles. You don't get fucking cookies for being the most basic level of decent human being. 2. heteroromantic asexuals are NOT queer and do not share the same struggles. (homoromantic, biromantic, or panromantic aces/grey-a's, and demisexuals WOULD be queer, because their romantic orientation is queer). 3. Straight polyamorous people are NOT queer and do not share the same struggles. No. Fuck that shit.

LGBT

Not sure why we need to be referred to as any acronym... I feel like it just further separates us from those who don't identify as one of the "sexual minorities".

LGBT Is The Most Recognizable.

don't have a strong opinion on the matter

I have to say, I usually go with LGBTQ. But those are some pretty good ones.

I'm surprised QUILTBAGPIPE was an actual thing! I like the E: Everyone! But, yes, alphabet soup. spill it out, see what you get, it'll include enough people.