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LGBTIQs challenge marriage rhetoric
by Zak Szymanski
Bay Area Reporter
March 4 2004

The LG community may soon realize that including the T, B, I, and Q in its movement should be more than symbolic, and in fact, may be critically necessary when it comes to the fight for marriage equality.

San Francisco made headlines last month when the city began issuing marriage licenses to "same-sex" couples, a term that has been used interchangeably with the words "gay" and "lesbian" to describe the thousands of weddings performed.

Yet many of the gay and lesbian couples married at City Hall in fact were not "same-sex," and likewise, some of the "same-sex" couples who received marriage licenses are not lesbian or gay.

Numerous transgenders ? including those who were actually born the "opposite" sex as their partners ? took part in the ceremonies, as did bisexuals and intersex people, all of whom for one reason or another do not fit neatly into the current political discourse.