At THEGAYUK we’re passionate about visibility and the eradication of LGBTQI erasure.
We think it’s important to use the words, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender in our articles, in a positive and non-perjorative way, after all we are an organisation that reports (predominately) on LGBTQI news.
We feel that there’s enough LGBTQI erasure in the media as it is – and therefore if a celebrity, politician, VIP or person that the article is based around idenitfies as LGBTQI we will use gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender to ensure that our community gets visibility on site.
We also believe it adds important narrative to the story and it is of interest to our readers to know how a person identifies and that they may have shared experiences.