Stonewall was at a bar, not a boardroom.

"Really? So you put this down on your employee disclosure and happily share with your neighbours all and sundry that you are a paedophile? You use the words paedophile/paedophilia as self-identification in day to day life do you? Great, you explain that to Victoria Derbyshire or Stephen Nolan when half of Britain is shouting down a phone line at you and no-platforming you from every venue. Cloud-cuckoo-land. Toast."

LOL

Show me the euphemism presently available on the employment form which describes us?

And show me the employer who knows that they cannot discriminate on the basis of it?

If it presently exists, I will adopt it.

But here, outside of candyland, it doesn't. And here in RL, those I have outed myself to know my preferred term.

"The gay community went through an evolution which involved an important shift in language. It shook off the negative connotations of terms like sodomite homosexual and pouff. Now the term gay has universal affirmation and acceptance.. bland local authorities and corporations now fall over themselves to be all diversity, inclusive, and LGBT friendly... but it wasn't an easy battle, and we owe a lot to the likes of Harvey Milk, Peter Tatchell, April Ashley, and many many others."

Tell THAT to Westboro.

Those who hate them hate the Gays and Homosexuals.

Those who accept them accept self-described queers. AND those who are allies know that while str8 allies cannot use "faggot," it is perfectly permissible to be used inside. I would never tell my friends who have reclaimed "faggot" that they were wrong to do so.

Again, folks support the person or hate the person, not the label. And as all labels are turned into hate-speech in the mouths of the haters; acceptance comes under some label that has been around long enough to be both unambiguously employed AND--because it is in common use---has been tarnished by bigots. It has always been thus

We also have to keep in mind that the beginning of the Gay Rights movement didn't commence with the busting up of an academic conference of business suit wearing neutered gents who clearly weren't getting any, but at a gay bar described as "seedy" known for being a place to go to hook-up.

The polite and socially approved depend upon the unseemly to fight for the rights they are later able to claim.

Dante