Editing LGBT (section)

== Alternative terms ==

=== Queer ===
Many people have looked for a generic term to replace the numerous existing initialisms.<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}}</ref> Words such as ''[[queer]]'' (an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual, or gender-binary) and ''[[rainbow flag (LGBT movement)|rainbow]]'' have been tried, but most have not been widely adopted.<ref name="Sexual Identities, Queer Politi" /><ref name="Forging Gay Identities">{{cite book
 | last=Armstrong | first=Elizabeth A. | title=Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950–1994
 | publisher=University of Chicago Press | year=2002|isbn= 978-0-226-02694-7 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jnYy6hSdocAC
 | access-date=2008-07-05 }}</ref> ''Queer'' has many negative connotations to older people who remember the word as a taunt and insult and such (negative) usage of the term continues.<ref name="Sexual Identities, Queer Politi" /><ref name="Forging Gay Identities" /> Many younger people also understand ''queer'' to be more politically charged than ''LGBT''.<ref name="Forging Gay Identities" /><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}}</ref>

=== Rainbow ===
"Rainbow" has connotations that recall [[hippies]], [[New Age]] movements, and groups such as the [[Rainbow Family]] or [[Jesse Jackson]]'s [[Rainbow/PUSH|Rainbow/PUSH Coalition]]. ''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 }}</ref>

=== SGM/GSM ===
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SGM, or GSM,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Besanvalle|first=James|date=2018-07-20|title=Five alternative terms you can use instead of LGBT|url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/five-alternative-terms-instead-lgbt/|access-date=2021-01-20|website=Gay Star News|language=en-GB}}</ref> an abbreviation for Sexual and Gender Minorities, has gained particular currency in government, academia, and medicine. It has been adopted by the [[National Institutes of Health]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office|url=https://dpcpsi.nih.gov/sgmro|access-date=2020-11-23|website=National Institutes of Health}}</ref> the [[Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services]];<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sexual and Gender Minority Clearinghouse|url=https://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Agency-Information/OMH/resource-center/hcps-and-researchers/data-tools/sgm-clearinghouse|access-date=2020-11-23|website=Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services}}</ref> and the UCLA [[Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy|Williams Institute]], which studies SGM law and policy.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Park|first=Andrew|date=July 2016|title=A Development Agenda for Sexual and Gender Minorities|url=https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/development-agenda-sgm/|access-date=2020-11-23|website=Williams Institute|language=en-US}}</ref> An NIH paper recommends the term SGM because it is inclusive of "those who may not self-identify as LGBT … or those who have a specific medical condition affecting reproductive development,"<ref>{{Citation|title=Strategic Plan to Advance Research on the Health and Well-being of Sexual and Gender Minorities|date=<!-- c. 2015 -->|url=https://www.edi.nih.gov/sites/default/files/EDI_Public_files/sgm-strategic-plan.pdf|publisher=National Institutes of Health|access-date=2020-11-23}}</ref> while a UK government paper favors SGM because initials like LGBTIQ+ 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=2020-11-23}}</ref> An example of usage outside the Global North is the [[Constitution of Nepal]], which identifies "gender and sexual minorities" as a protected class.<ref>{{Citation|title=Constitution of Nepal|year=2015|url=http://www.lawcommission.gov.np/en/archives/981|publisher=Nepal Law Commission|access-date=2020-11-24}}</ref>

=== Further umbrella terms ===
Some people advocate the term "minority sexual and gender identities" (MSGI, coined in 2000), so as to explicitly include all people who are not [[cisgender]] and [[heterosexual]]; or ''gender, sexual, and romantic minorities'' (GSRM), which is more explicitly inclusive of [[Romantic orientation|minority romantic orientations]] and [[polyamory]]; but those have not been widely adopted either.<ref name="Bradford Uni">{{cite web | title=Welcome to the Bradford University Minority Sexual and Gender Identity Site! | publisher=Bradford Uni MSGI Society | year=2008 | url =http://lgbt.wikidot.com/ | access-date=2008-09-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acronymfinder.com/Gender,-Sexual,-and-Romantic-Minorities-%28GSRM%29.html|title=GSRM - Gender, Sexual, and Romantic Minorities|publisher=acronymfinder.com|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-suresha/diversities-may-enrich-lgbtqiap-alphabet-soup_b_3929870.html|title='Diversities' May Enrich 'LGBTQIAP' Alphabet Soup|date=19 September 2013|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=6 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=LGBT? LGBTQ? Queer? QUILTBAG? GSM? GSRM?|url=http://queerumich.com/post/25021141159/lgbt-lgbtq-queer-quiltbag-gsm-gsrm-whats|website=queerumich.com|publisher=[[University of Michigan]] (on [[Tumblr]])|access-date=12 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Gender and Sexual Minority Students (LGBTIQA)|url=http://www.derby.ac.uk/campus/support/gender-and-sexual-minority-students/|publisher=University of Derby|access-date=12 March 2015}}</ref> 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], February 25, 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}}</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}}</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>