Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/927/

wtf is mogai. god help me, i didnt think i would lose touch in my early 30s

Sibling, i'm 22 and don't know what it is either don't worry

I think it's some kind of small furry creature from an '80s movie?

MOGAI: marginalized orientations, gender alignments and intersex

it's an alternative label to lgbtq+, that afaik aims to be more abstract and include all queer people from the get go. unlike lgbtq, which only lists specific identities and therefor has to be extended all the time to include everyone, to the point where you for example can get LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM.

mogai is also a (mainly online?) queer movement, from which the term originates and i think it lost a lot of popularity, if it ever had that much, which is probably why u didnt hear of it.

there are arguments for and against the use of mogai over lgbtq+. i dont really care and just say queer :3

thanks for the explanation! this is all very tumblr coded and i appreciate that, but personally will continue to call myself queer lol

It seems to me the kaleidoscoping of the unity that rainbow flag aimed for doesn't make the community stronger. I feel the drive to have some constantly evolving all inclusive name and define each and every subset of queer hurts the brand. Instead of a united community there's tiny little fifedoms that are cliquey and far from universally welcoming. By so rigorously defining the individual the community gets lost and the message gets drowned in a see of voices yelling their specific flavour of gay.

It brings this joke to mind:

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”
He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”
He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”
Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.”
I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.

This is just my observation as an old out of touch cis guy with a queer daughter.

GSM - Gender and Sexual Minorities?

Yep
I think I have it as mpreg4.
Just don't get him wet.

Genuinely thought of this XKCD earlier today after getting annoyed by different types of bicycle chain covers.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of queer people who are pretty bigoted against other groups under the queer label. The classic example being LGBdroptheT. The affirmations of specific groups are a reaction to that in-community bigotry, which sociologists call lateral violence. These all-encompasing terms like gsrm don't always fulfil the function of explicitly including groups that suffer lateral violence.

There's even trans people on Lemmy who claim that nounself pronouns are a transphobic trolling tactic.

Serious.

'Rainbow.'

The original flag, and it covers everyone.

Best of all, it will annoy the people who think that Noah's ark is authentic history.

Hear, hear!

I'm old enough to remember when terms like mullato and quadroon were common expressions.

People started using 'Black' to get away from that mind set.

If there's encoding issues in the future, we can come up with mpreg2.

For anyone that wants more information, visit the Friends Fighting for the Marginalized People of Romantic, Erotic and Gender website, it has a lot of really good info!

https://ffmpreg.org/

Yeah it's very dated to the mid 10s and never gained widespread use even on tumblr

That is some effort put in. Kudos for your hard work!

Wanna make sure people get the joke about mpreg. 🫃

At least some people are still doing the good work

c/GatesOpenComeOnIn 😌

You're not, I am too and also very queer, never once heard of this lol

You can't expect people that live outside of niche internet circle jerks to know every acronym.

Completely agree, the community feels more fragmented than ever. I likely correspond to at least three different pride flags from my orientation at this point and I still mix up the colors. Can we just go back to being "gay" as a broad term? I'll save the semantics for my pronouns and sexual partners lol

Mainly online gay artificial intelligence?

I think this went away with the switch to GPT5.

It’s a video format?

It's the kid from the jungle book

Yeah, if you're not a candidate for getting in my pants, and happily married thank you, all anyone really needs to know is nonbinary. The charts and graphs with colors and times of day and moods and scratch and sniff areas (it's a very well designed chart, I've put a lot of thought into it) those I have saved over the years for my lovers, my glue salespersons, and the lady who owns and runs my favorite restaurant (we know each other a little too well).

I was about to say grievous bodily harm but those don't match. Probably easy to guess what I been reading lately.

Is it? The Moving Picture (rule) Experts Group? Perhaps? 😏