Editing LGBTQ (term) (section)

== Alternatives ==

=== Queer ===
{{Main|Queer}}

Many have expressed desire for an [[umbrella term]] to replace existing initialisms.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Sexual Identities, Queer Politi">{{cite book | last=Atkins | first=Dawn | title=Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities | publisher=Haworth Press | year=1998 | isbn=978-0-7890-0463-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rd31TPHaxdEC | access-date=2 July 2015 | archive-date=6 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906162509/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rd31TPHaxdEC | url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Glossary of Terms |url=https://www.hrc.org/resources/glossary-of-terms |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=HRC |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Queer]]'' gained popularity as an umbrella-term for sexual and gender minorities in the 21st century.<ref name="Worthen-2023">{{Cite journal |last=Worthen |first=Meredith G. F. |date=1 February 2023 |title=Queer identities in the 21st century: Reclamation and stigma |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X22002330 |journal=Current Opinion in Psychology |volume=49 |pages=101512 |doi=10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101512 |pmid=36463589 |s2cid=253377540 |issn=2352-250X}}</ref> The term remains controversial, particularly among older LGBT people, who perceive it as offensive due to its historical usage as a [[Pejorative|slur]],<ref name="Worthen-2023" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=McHanon |first=Mary |date=23 May 2024 |title=Is "Queer" a Derogatory Word? |url=https://www.languagehumanities.org/is-queer-a-derogatory-word.htm |access-date=7 September 2024 |website=Language & Humanities}}</ref> as well as those who wish to dissociate themselves from [[queer radicalism]],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gamson |first=Joshua |date=1995 |title=Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3096854 |journal=Social Problems |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=390–407 |doi=10.1525/sp.1995.42.3.03x0104z |jstor=3096854 |issn=0037-7791}}</ref> and those who see it as amorphous and trendy.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ayoub |first1=Phillip |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7hlHBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT137 |title=LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe: A Rainbow Europe? |last2=Paternotte |first2=David |date=20 October 2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-39176-6}}</ref> Some younger people feel ''queer'' is a more politically charged, more powerful term than ''LGBT''.<ref name="Forging Gay Identities">{{cite book |last=Armstrong |first=Elizabeth A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jnYy6hSdocAC |title=Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950–1994 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-226-02694-7 |access-date=5 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122141703/http://books.google.com/books?id=jnYy6hSdocAC |archive-date=22 November 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="It's Your World">{{cite book | last=Halpin | first=Mikki | title=It's Your World—If You Don't Like It, Change It: Activism for Teenagers | publisher=Simon and Schuster | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-689-87448-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ud3Zzo2-VMsC | access-date=2 July 2015 | archive-date=6 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906152241/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ud3Zzo2-VMsC | url-status=live}}</ref> In a 2018 U.S. study, about 1 in 5 LGBTQ people identified as "queer".<ref name="Worthen-2023" />

=== Sexual and gender minorities ===
{{main|Sexual and gender minorities}}
In academic and professional contexts, ''sexual and gender minorities'' (''SGM'') is sometimes used as an alternative to ''LGBTQ'' to include individuals who may not self-identify as LGBTQ (such as [[men who have sex with men]], [[women who have sex with women]], and some individuals with differences or [[disorders of sex development]]).<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.edi.nih.gov/sites/default/files/EDI_Public_files/sgm-strategic-plan.pdf | title=NIH FY 2016-2020 - Strategic Plan to Advance Research on the Health and Well-being of Sexual and Gender Minorities | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318075832/https://www.edi.nih.gov/sites/default/files/EDI_Public_files/sgm-strategic-plan.pdf | archive-date=2021-03-18 }}</ref> A UK government paper favors ''SGM'' because initials like ''LGBTQ'' stand for terms that, especially outside the [[Global North]], are "not necessarily inclusive of local understandings and terms used to describe sexual and gender minorities".<ref>{{Citation|title=Gender and Strategic Communications in Conflict and Stabilisation Contexts|date=January 2020|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/866351/How_to_Guide_on_Gender_and_Strategic_Communication_in_Conflict_and_Stabilisation_Contexts_-_January_2020_-_Stabilisation_Unit.pdf|publisher=HM Government|access-date=23 November 2020|archive-date=1 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101050719/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/866351/How_to_Guide_on_Gender_and_Strategic_Communication_in_Conflict_and_Stabilisation_Contexts_-_January_2020_-_Stabilisation_Unit.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Gender, sexual and romantic minorities'' (''GSRM'') includes individuals of a minority [[romantic orientation]] such as [[aromanticism]].<ref>{{Citation|last1=Choudhuri|first1=Devika Dibya|title=Multiplicity of LGBTQ+ Identities, Intersections, and Complexities|date=2019-09-20|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429447297-1|work=Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and Collegiate Contexts|pages=3–16|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-429-44729-7|access-date=2021-06-09|last2=Curley|first2=Kate|doi=10.4324/9780429447297-1|s2cid=210355997|archive-date=2023-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323053831/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429447297-1/multiplicity-lgbtq-identities-intersections-complexities-devika-dibya-choudhuri-kate-curley|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Lapointe|first=Alicia|title=Postgay|date=2016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YpTvDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA205|work=Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education: An International Guide for the Twenty-First Century|pages=205–218|editor-last=Rodriguez|editor-first=Nelson M.|series=Queer Studies and Education|place=New York|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|language=en|doi=10.1057/978-1-137-55425-3_21|isbn=978-1-137-55425-3|access-date=2021-06-09|editor2-last=Martino|editor2-first=Wayne J.|editor3-last=Ingrey|editor3-first=Jennifer C.|editor4-last=Brockenbrough|editor4-first=Edward|archive-date=2023-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323053845/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-55425-3_21|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Further umbrella terms ===
Other rare umbrella terms are [[Gender and Sexual Diversity|Gender and Sexual Diversities]] (GSD),<ref>[http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/02/25/organisation-proposes-replacing-the-limiting-term-lgbt-with-more-inclusive-gsd/ Organisation proposes replacing the 'limiting' term LGBT with 'more inclusive' GSD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616231332/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/02/25/organisation-proposes-replacing-the-limiting-term-lgbt-with-more-inclusive-gsd/ |date=16 June 2018}}, 25 February 2013.</ref> MOGII (Marginalized Orientations, Gender Identities, and Intersex) and MOGAI (Marginalized Orientations, Gender Alignments and Intersex).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/gender-and-sexual-diversities-gsd-lgbt-label-_n_2758908.html|title='Gender And Sexual Diversities,' Or GSD, Should Replace 'LGBT,' Say London Therapists|date=25 February 2013|newspaper=The Huffington Post|access-date=6 October 2014|archive-date=12 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012080406/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/gender-and-sexual-diversities-gsd-lgbt-label-_n_2758908.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2014/08/01/pride-on-the-prowl.html|title=Pride on the prowl|work=Dalhousie News|access-date=6 October 2014|archive-date=9 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009094232/http://www.dal.ca/news/2014/08/01/pride-on-the-prowl.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

''SGL'' ([[same-gender loving]]) is sometimes favored among gay male [[African American]]s as a way of distinguishing themselves from what they regard as [[white people|white]]-dominated LGBT communities.<ref name="The Politics of Gay Rights">{{cite book | last1=Rimmerman | first1=Craig A. | first2=Kenneth D. | last2=Wald | first3=Clyde | last3=Wilcox | title=The Politics of Gay Rights | publisher=University of Chicago Press | year=2006 | isbn=978-1-4129-0988-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AlErV-3RpDEC | access-date=2 July 2015 | archive-date=6 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906163312/https://books.google.com/books?id=AlErV-3RpDEC | url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Clinical ===

In public health settings, ''MSM'' ("[[men who have sex with men]]") is clinically used to describe men who have sex with other men without referring to their sexual orientation, with ''WSW'' ("[[women who have sex with women]]") also used as an analogous term.<ref>Young, R M & Meyer, I H (2005) The Trouble with "MSM" and "WSW": Erasure of the Sexual-Minority Person in Public Health Discourse American Journal of Public Health July 2005 Vol. 95 No. 7.</ref><ref>Glick, M Muzyka, B C Salkin, L M Lurie, D (1994) Necrotizing [[Periodontitis|ulcerative periodontitis]]: a marker for immune deterioration and a predictor for the diagnosis of [[AIDS]] Journal of Periodontology 1994 65 p. 393–397.</ref>

=== MVPFAFF ===

MVPFAFF is an abbreviation for {{Lang|haw|[[Māhū]]}}, [[Vakasalewalewa|Vakasalewa]], {{lang|tpi|[[Palopa]]|italic=no}}, [[Fa'afafine]], {{Lang|rar|[[Akava'ine]]}}, [[Fakaleitī]] (Leiti), and [[Fakafifine]]. This term was developed by [[Phylesha Brown-Acton]] in 2010 at the Asia Pacific Games Human Rights Conference.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Brown-Acton|first=Phylesha|date=25 February 2020|title=Hands and feet: A reflection on Polynesian navigation—a Niue Fakafifine community practitioner perspective in Aotearoa-New Zealand|url=https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/298|journal=Te Kaharoa|volume=15|issue=1|doi=10.24135/tekaharoa.v15i1.298|s2cid=226134097|issn=1178-6035|access-date=2 October 2021|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205208/https://www.tekaharoa.com/index.php/tekaharoa/article/view/298|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}</ref> This refers to those in the rainbow [[Pacific Islander]] community, who may or may not identify with the LGBTQ initialism.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rainbow|url=https://www.leva.co.nz/our-work/suicide-prevention/finding-help/support-services/rainbow/|access-date=2 October 2021|website=Le Va|archive-date=2 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002023943/https://www.leva.co.nz/our-work/suicide-prevention/finding-help/support-services/rainbow/|url-status=live}}</ref>