The ABCs and Ps and Qs of LGBTQ

Overview
- Promote diversity and inclusion
- Help foster an understanding of the diversity of the LGBTQ community
- Facilitate conversation
- Best Practices
- LGBTQ – what do all the letters mean?
- Other letters and words – U, A, MSM, WSW, Cis
- The Trans umbrella
- PBJ video
- Identity Politics 101 – Intersectionality and oppression
- The role of culture and social institutions in maintaining dominant norms
- Macro Aggressions – discrimination, lack of access, lack of rights, the Tolerance Trap of same sex marriage
- Micro Aggressions – language, forms, environment, “humor”
- The no-no words – tranny, fag, faggot, dyke, queer
- How can you be inclusive?
- Policies and Practices that promote diversity
- Resources for further information