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Does anyone have any idea where to start organizing the morass of LGBT categories? One way that I don't think would work is to start with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender - there are too many cats, articles, etc that span all four. So what are some other taxonomies that might work? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 18:03, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

What is wrong with the way we already have, to begin with? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 18:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, it's quite a jumble. Take a look at the category list on the Portal page, for example - in my opinion, it's not very organized. And there are lots of articles that are in multiple categories where simplification would help. For instance, what's the difference between Category:Gay writers and Category:Queer writers?

And there have been several calls for re-organization, including one from you on the WP:LGBT talk page :)

But maybe you're right and the current overall structure is sufficient - I haven't studied it enough to form an opinion. Mostly I'm just looking for input from different people to see what their thoughts are as to what needs to be done.

As a side note, Google reports 98 categories when I searched for "site:en.wikipedia.org intitle:Category (intitle:Gay OR intitle:Lesbian OR intitle:Bisexual OR intitle:Transgender OR intitle:Transexual OR intitle:Transsexual OR intitle:Queer OR intitle:homosexual) -intitle:talk -intitle:wikipedians". -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 16:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm for reorganisation, after I discovered that no-one knew about List of transgendered sports people because NO-ONE had bothered to cat it appropriately. I'm just not really sure of how to go about it, I've been recategorising ti as I go along, but I don't know about the big picture. I've always imagined queer writer are those who either identify as queer or write about queer theory. Would you rather merge them? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 16:55, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

There does not appear to be such an article as List of transgendered sports people. - Jmabel | Talk 00:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered sportspeople -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)