It definitely throws people off, especially the cisgendered queers. Saying queer instead of lgbt or gay helps people who are not in the gender binary and if I'm being completely honest a word like bisexual is trans-exclusionary, just from my personal experience bisexuals do not want to have sex with trans people, the ones that do are called pansexuals. Don't even get me started on how much of the lesbian community is terf reactionary because they don't want to associate with trans people. The gay community same deal. And why does the l at the start of the acronym? Why not TPGNBL or something else? The whole acronym order is the main reason why I'm using queer. How can we be equal if we put specific sexual groups in front of each other? Queer is all encompassing and we should use that instead. If we could change the pride flag we could phase out lgbt.
I've been considering identifying as either bi or pan lately, having been friends with queer people for over a decade and having discussed the nuances of each, and as far as I can tell it's Cross-Gender-Spectrum Attraction Purple and Cross-Gender-Spectrum Attraction Yellow. It's basically "pick which NB flag color goes with the pink and blue".
(yes I'm leaning bi simply because I like those colors together)