The alphabet soup gets thicker

A Canadian politician has just coined ‘MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+’. Run for the hills.

Apr 10, 2026

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Around fifteen years ago, I had a stand-up routine in which I would bemoan the ever-expanding initialism for sexual minorities. First it was LGB, then LGBT, then LGBTQI. I ended up increasing it gradually until every letter of the alphabet was represented and had its own assigned meaning. It was more a memory trick than a joke, but it always landed well.

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