LGBTT2IQQA

[Scot LaFaive]

I'm all for the spirit of letting others live as they feel they must,
but wow, this seems an unnecessary mouthful. Or is it the wave of the
future, a future full acronyms and coded initialisms? WMFGWWTSMDIHHO??

Scot

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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> It's the English that seemed pretty recent to me, but maybe it was the
> concept as you say. BB
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> On May 21, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> I've seen two-spirit in connection with Native Americans in the US. I
>>> don't know if it's used outside that context. Wikipedia has it as
>>> well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_spirit, which says it
>>> originated in 1990. That seems pretty recent to me. BB
>>
>> To be precise, the Wikipedia article asserts 1990 origin of the
>> English "two-spirit", not of its etymon:
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>> "Two-spirit" originated in Winnipeg, Canada in 1990 during the third
>> annual intertribal Native American/First Nations gay and lesbian
>> conference. It is a calque of the Ojibwa phrase niizh manidoowag (two
>> spirits). It was chosen to distance Native/First Nations people from
>> non-natives as well as from the words "berdache" and "gay."[6]
>>
>> <<<<
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>> --
>> Mark Mandel
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