The gay liberation movement, originally designed to "liberate" gays from oppression and discrimination by [[heterosexual]]s, quickly devolved into controversy when [[bisexual]]s sought to be included. Additionally, gay libbers were charged with [[sexism]] because it excluded [[lesbian]]s. Some debate erupted if lesbians were in fact gay, and it was eventually decided to allow females to retain their own [[identity politics|identity]] as lesbians, although many women consider themselves gay. Then, the most "oppressed" group of all, [[transgender]]s, also sought inclusion. Over many years and decades the issues were incrementally resolved by establishing, first, the LGB movement, with the traditional cultural deference to the female of the species by putting "lesbian" before "gay, and eventually, because of charges of [[bigotry]] within the movement, [[transexual]]s were also included into the modern [[LGBT]] movement. However, the debate over the difference between transsexuals and transgenders is far from over.
With the establishment of the Lesbian-Gay alliance, the issues psychological disturbances of [[misanthropymisandry]] and [[misogyny]], which is the cause or practice of many within the combined homosexual community, where largely papered over.
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