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A similar version is POSSSLQ meaning Persons Of Same Sex Sharing Living Quarters. This has been an acronym used by insurance companies to describe same-sex living arrangements.
I've occasionally seen people suggest "PASSLQ" (where the A stands for "appropriate") as a gender-blind version of this acronym. Compared to other suggestions, "PASSLQ" causes the fewest difficulties:
-- Ingeborg S. Nordén 15:51, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
The version that I have always been familiar with has been 'Person Of Significance Sharing Living Quarters', which is also nicely gender-blind, but I'm not sure when or where it originated. Ghoti ( talk) 17:08, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Are these two sentences about the same term, as their juxtaposition suggests?
Was "unmarried partner" a short-lived term, or has it supplanted POSSLQ? -- 82.46.155.15 ( talk) 06:28, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Does the term specifically mean an unmarried partner? Or is a spouse a POSSLQ just as well? The article doesn't make it clear. Of the sources, only Dictionary.com comments on the matter; not sure if we can count on this. Furthermore, from that definition, it would seem that a simple housemate (such as in a group of students or friends living together) who happens to be of the other gender is a POSSLQ, which is contradictory with the implication here. — Smjg ( talk) 22:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
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A similar version is POSSSLQ meaning Persons Of Same Sex Sharing Living Quarters. This has been an acronym used by insurance companies to describe same-sex living arrangements.
I've occasionally seen people suggest "PASSLQ" (where the A stands for "appropriate") as a gender-blind version of this acronym. Compared to other suggestions, "PASSLQ" causes the fewest difficulties:
-- Ingeborg S. Nordén 15:51, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
The version that I have always been familiar with has been 'Person Of Significance Sharing Living Quarters', which is also nicely gender-blind, but I'm not sure when or where it originated. Ghoti ( talk) 17:08, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Are these two sentences about the same term, as their juxtaposition suggests?
Was "unmarried partner" a short-lived term, or has it supplanted POSSLQ? -- 82.46.155.15 ( talk) 06:28, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Does the term specifically mean an unmarried partner? Or is a spouse a POSSLQ just as well? The article doesn't make it clear. Of the sources, only Dictionary.com comments on the matter; not sure if we can count on this. Furthermore, from that definition, it would seem that a simple housemate (such as in a group of students or friends living together) who happens to be of the other gender is a POSSLQ, which is contradictory with the implication here. — Smjg ( talk) 22:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)