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You're using the wrong search engine, I get loads of examples: https://queerevents.ca/events/toronto/social/2020-02-08/lgbtqiaa2s-youth-gaymer-event https://qu

You're using the wrong search engine, I get loads of examples: https://queerevents.ca/events/toronto/social/2020-02-08/lgbtqiaa2s-youth-gaymer-event https://queerevents.ca/events/toronto/social/2020-02-08/lgbt... http://internationalstudentconnect.org/lgbtqiaa2s http://internationalstudentconnect.org/lgbtqiaa2s https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-46418045 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-46418045 etc. I've seen longer versions of the same in use like LGGBDTTTIQQAAP, this is used for some 'inclusiveness training' by the Canadian Elementary Teachers Federation (ETFO) of Ontario, it supposedly stands for Lesbian, Gay, Genderqueer, Bisexual, Demisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Twospirit, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, Asexual, Allies, Pansexual and Polyamorous.

emteycz 6y ago
Wouldn't it be better to have a word that describes the person as 'other than majority' rather than a really long acronym? Similarly as we use the word foreigner instead of listing every possible nationality.
- Yetanfou 6y ago
  Of course it would, the way these terms are being made up and expanded is self-defeating. From hispanic to latino to latinx, from homosexual to gay and lesbian to lesbian and gay to (too many words, let's use an acronym) LGB to LGBT to LGBTQ to half the alphabet plus some interpunction - I've heard the term 'alphabet people' being bandied around. This is a natural outcome of intersectionality, everyone will want to see his group represented in the terminology. It resembles the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian where the PFJ (People's Front of Judea) confess their hatred of the JPF, the other JPF, the JPPF and then some.