Why it’s time for LGB to divorce T and Q

A battle is brewing in the LGBTQ+ community about whether the needs of plain-old LGBs are fundamentally divergent from Queers and folks who are transgender.

A standup comic named Paul Elia joked to an audience in Los Angeles last month about the newfangled Pride flag, which has in recent years replaced the better-known “rainbow flag” at many LGBT events in America. 

“It has like six additional colors that represent the transgender and nonbinary community,” Elia enthused. “They had gay Pride outside my house,…