Citations:alphabet

English citations of alphabet

• 2008 winter, Robyn Epstein, quoting Catherine Crouch, “Canary in a Coal Mine”, in Sinister Wisdom‎^[1], number 75, →ISSN, page 14:

  We are in the middle of massive change in our alphabet community (of LGBT) and that is threatening to many of our comfort zones.

• 2010, Tracy Baim, Obama and the Gays, Chicago: Prairie Avenue Productions, →ISBN, page xiv:

  “Gay” is used in this book to stand in for the entire alphabet community: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, and allies.

• 2019, Mary Pipher, Sara Gilliam, Reviving Ophelia 25th Anniversary Edition, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 101:

  “Our generation accepts all ‘alphabet people” (LGBTQA), Aspen agreed. “We have a gender-fluid senior prom. Girls wear tuxedos if they want and boys can wear dresses. My friends believe in total equality and support gay marriage.”

• 2019, Sticks & Stones‎^[2], spoken by Dave Chappelle, Netflix:

  The rule is that no matter what you do in your artistic expression, you are never, ever, allowed to upset… the alphabet people. You know who I mean. Those people that took 20% of the alphabet for themselves. I’d say the letters, but I don’t want to conjure their anger. Ah, it’s too late now. I’m talking about them L’s and them B’s and them G’s and the T’s.

• 2022, Dana Brantley-Sieders, Talking to My Tatas, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 133:

  I learned that I am obliged, as a straight White woman of privilege, to be an active ally and work for justice and equality for my gay brothers and sisters in the alphabet mafia.