Google launches online LGBTQ glossary but forgets to include “bisexual”

Bisexual people are so frequently left out of discussions around LGBTQ issues that it’s spawned the term “bisexual erasure.”

But Google may have put too fine of a point on it when they released an online glossary of LGBTQ terms that included anti-gay slurs and demisexuals, but left out bisexuals and pansexuals entirely.

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While users can look up “blaqueer” (Black queer people) and “Pup play” (BDSM play where people roleplay as dogs),  they’re on their own when it comes to figuring out two of the most basic terms in the community.

The LGBTQ+ Language and Media Literacy Program by VideoOut as part of its LGBTQ+ Learning Project. They partnered with the Google News Initiative and Men’s Health magazine to produce the list of terms.

The tool purports to “guide journalists through the complex world of LGBTQ+ vernacular,” but the entire exclusion of one of the letters in that term is being perceived as remarkably tone deaf and thoughtless. The team that put the list of 100 words and phrases was comprised of queer people.

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