I am actually a bit leery about including "kinky, fetishists, BDSM practitioners" in a listing of decidedly queer sexualities. I see kink, fetish and BDSM as very distinct from sexual orientation/sexuality. Though, I understand those categories are seen as "non traditional" and often discriminated against in culture, it is is not the same in my mind.
I don't think I'd want to see kink etc excluded though, because including it does further challenge and expand the definition of gen. But I think separating it from "sexual minorities" might be an idea. Because lumping kink etc with LGB almost implies that queer = kinky. Which is not necessarily so. Queer and straight people are into kink et al. Kink et al is part of their identity to many, as sexual orientation is, but I think it's an additional or distinct one from queer sexualities and identities. They sometimes overlap, but not necessarily (as in the case of straight folks who are into kink etc). Lumping the two maybe simplifies things, but I don't necessarily think it makes sense, either.
Maybe just listing "homosexual, gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, questioning" as a group of sexual minorities and then "kinky, poly, fetishists, BDSM practitioners" as a second group, and explain that while some of these overlap, they are different categories of sexual minority. The first group excludes strictly straight sexuality. The second group does not and may include people of any orientation and/or gender identity.
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I don't think I'd want to see kink etc excluded though, because including it does further challenge and expand the definition of gen. But I think separating it from "sexual minorities" might be an idea. Because lumping kink etc with LGB almost implies that queer = kinky. Which is not necessarily so. Queer and straight people are into kink et al. Kink et al is part of their identity to many, as sexual orientation is, but I think it's an additional or distinct one from queer sexualities and identities. They sometimes overlap, but not necessarily (as in the case of straight folks who are into kink etc). Lumping the two maybe simplifies things, but I don't necessarily think it makes sense, either.
Maybe just listing "homosexual, gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, questioning" as a group of sexual minorities and then "kinky, poly, fetishists, BDSM practitioners" as a second group, and explain that while some of these overlap, they are different categories of sexual minority. The first group excludes strictly straight sexuality. The second group does not and may include people of any orientation and/or gender identity.