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*'''QUILTBAG''' (queer/questioning, undecided, intersex, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, asexual, gay) was among the first proposed alternative acronyms. It was coined by Sadie Lee in 2005.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=QUILTBAG&oldid=59811453 |title=QUILTBAG |access-date=30 July 2021 |date=19 July 2020 |website=Wiktionary, The Free Dictionary}}</ref> Though QUILTBAG is relatively long compared to LGBT, having the acronym be a pronounceable word made it easy to talk about. However this also leads to confusion, as it is not a distinct word. The '''U''' is sometimes stated to stand for "[[List of uncommon nonbinary identities#Unisex|Unisex]]", a type of nonbinary identity.<ref name="medi_Lite">{{Cite web |title=Literary Canon Fodder {{!}} Cardyn Brooks Reviews |author= |work=Media Diversified |date=11 February 2018 |access-date=14 February 2021 |url= https://mediadiversified.org/2018/02/11/literary-canon-fodder-cardyn-brooks-reviews/ |quote=...the absence of any QUILTBAG (Queer, Questioning, Unisex, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Asexual, All, Gay) characters...}}</ref><ref name="yapr_Auth">{{Cite web |title=Author Guest Blog: Diversity in YA |author=Suzanne 'Xan' van Rooyen |work=YA Pride |date=22 April 2013 |access-date=14 February 2021 |url= http://www.yapride.org/2013/04/author-guest-blog-diversity-in-ya/ |quote=QUILTBAG stands for queer, unisex, intersex, lesbian, trans, bi, asexual and gay }}</ref>

* '''MOGAI''' (marginalized orientations, gender alignments, and intersex), or '''MOGII''' (marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex). These terms include intersex people, while excluding people who aren't LGBT+. MOGII is perhaps easier to say, while MOGAI is more accurate (cishet [[Sexes#Dyadic_sexes|perisex]] women have a marginalized gender ''identity'', but their gender aligns with their [[assigned gender at birth]] so they are not a marginalized gender ''alignment'').<ref name="bird" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://trigilis.tumblr.com/post/97895586212/why-ive-started-using-mogai|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226115818/https://trigilis.tumblr.com/post/97895586212/why-ive-started-using-mogai|title=why I’ve started using MOGAI|archive-date=26 December 2019|date=19 September 2014}}</ref> "MOGAI" is said to have been coined by Tumblr user cisphobeofficial circa 2015.<ref name="moga_moga">{{Cite web |title=mogai-archive, mogai, & xenogenders |author=ezgender |work= |date= |access-date=30 July 2021 |url= https://mogai-archive.carrd.co/ |quote=In (approximately) 2015, Tumblr user cisphobeofficial coined the term MOGAI. }}</ref> Though this term seeks to be the most inclusive, it has been criticized by some for the same reasons "GSM" has gained criticism. In some contexts, MOGAI is used to refer only to "newer" or more "niche" identities (such as [[xenogenders]] for example), so you will sometimes see people who are "pro-LGBT and anti-MOGAI" although the latter term technically includes the former. '''IMOGA''' (intersex, marginalized orientations or gender alignments) is a variation of MOGAI mostly used on Tumblr.

Beginning around the 1980s, the word "queer" began to become a political reclamation. Flyers like one circulated in the 1990 New York Pride Parade proclaimed queer as a word indicative of a rejection of heteronormative standards.<ref>["Published anonymously by Queers"]. 1990. QUEERS READ THIS: A leaflet distributed at pride march in NY. http://www.qrd.org/qrd/misc/text/queers.read.this</ref>   

In the early 1990s, the academic discipline of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_theory queer theory] developed. This comes from the use of "queer" as a political statement and a gender stance, which places queerness as against assimilation. The field of queer theory not only looks into LGBT history, but the ramifications of queer theory itself.<ref>https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PNYlUuvPOQ8C&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false {{dead link}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100358573|title=queer theory|website=Oxford Reference|language=en|doi=10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100358573|access-date=2021-07-04}}</ref>

For many people even today, "queer" represents a rejection of assimilation and respectability politics, whereas rejection of the word queer is associated with assimilationist politics. Queer is used by activists that seek broader societal changes that reach the most disenfranchised LGBT people.<ref>Ferry, Nicole C. (2012) [https://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct/article/view/368 Rethinking the Mainstream Gay and Lesbian Movement Beyond the Classroom Exclusionary Results from Inclusion-Based Assimilation Politics]. ''Journal of Curriculum Theorizing''. '''28''', (2): 104-117.</ref><ref name="Gamson1995">{{cite journal|last1=Gamson|first1=Joshua|title=Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma|journal=Social Problems|volume=42|issue=3|year=1995|pages=390–407|issn=00377791|doi=10.2307/3096854}}</ref>

Even so, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care V7 listed genderqueer as one of many specific terms used by people outside the gender binary in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|author=World Professional Association for Transgender Health|date=2012 |title= Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Conforming People [7^th Version] |page=96 |url= https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc}}</ref> In response, [[non-gendered]] activist [[Christie Elan-Cane]] spoke against queer being applied to per, calling the use of "[[genderqueer|gender queer]]" in the WPATH standards inappropriate, offensive, and a barrier to mainstream acceptance.<ref>Christie Elan-Cane. November 5, 2011. http://elancane.livejournal.com/9367.html</ref> Others, calling themselves genderqueer, praised the WPATH inclusion as validating their identities, calling Elan-Cane's complaints generational rather than universal.<ref name=":0">Mac. November 7, 2011. http://nonbinary.tumblr.com/post/12475693948/when-umbrella-terms-cause-offence-christie</ref>