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papers/keymaps: LGBTQ+ initialism as community-authored acronym
Adds a single corollary-table row treating LGBTQ+ as a community-
authored, versioned-without-governing-body initialism (LGB → LGBT →
LGBTQ → LGBTQIA → LGBTQIA2S+) — strictly the structural acronymic
parallel to NATO spelling, knitting abbreviations, and the rest of
the catalog's category-label cluster. Substantive treatment of
identity-terminology politics is explicitly out of scope; the citation
to the GLAAD Media Reference Guide is the standing community-style
reference.
Updates the "patterns emerge" paragraph to name initialisms as a
sub-pattern of the genus alongside input mappings, notational systems,
and category labels.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Hydra transform chains & Jack (2018) & Live-coded visuals & Browser + gists + \texttt{sketch.hydra.ojack.xyz}~\citep{jack2018hydra} \\
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IPA & IPA Association (1888) & Phonetics & Federation-standardized; revised at Kiel 1989 \\
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NATO spelling alphabet & ICAO (1956) & Aviation & Federation-standardized \\
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LGBTQ+ initialism & Community (1980s onward) & Identity terminology & Style guides (GLAAD); community-revised through use, no governing-body fiat~\citep{glaad_reference_guide} \\
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Controller buttons (A/B/X/Y, $\triangle$$\bigcirc$$\times$$\square$) & Nintendo (1990) / Goto (1994) & Games & Cross-platform ports must ship both labels \\
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CSS named colors & X11 \texttt{rgb.txt} (1987) $\rightarrow$ SVG 1.0 (2001) & Web & Inherited unchanged across browser implementations \\
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Knitting abbreviations & Craft Yarn Council / UK convention & Craft & Printed in every pattern \\
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Several patterns emerge. First, the genus spans input mappings (QWERTY, Vim), notational systems (Singmaster, Nashville, IPA), and category labels (controller buttons, CSS colors). What unifies them is not the medium but the \emph{role}: each is a small declarative table consulted at a boundary between human and machine, between communities of practice, or between competing implementations. Second, the named-inventor pattern is highly variable. Some objects have a single named inventor (Singmaster, Coleman, Davis); others have convergent or anonymous origins (DAW chromatic-staircase, fighting-game numpad notation); others are federation-crystallized after a period of community competition (algebraic chess, BÉPO). Third, the propagation mechanism is almost always \emph{not} a binary. It is pedagogy, expectation, citation, or written reference --- the apparatus of a literate community.
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Several patterns emerge. First, the genus spans input mappings (QWERTY, Vim, WASD), notational systems (Singmaster, Nashville, IPA), category labels (controller buttons, CSS colors), and community-authored initialisms (the NATO spelling alphabet; the LGBTQ+ acronym, whose revision history --- LGB $\rightarrow$ LGBT $\rightarrow$ LGBTQ $\rightarrow$ LGBTQIA $\rightarrow$ LGBTQIA2S+ --- is itself a versioned-without-governing-body process documented in style guides~\citep{glaad_reference_guide}). What unifies them is not the medium but the \emph{role}: each is a small declarative table consulted at a boundary between human and machine, between communities of practice, or between competing implementations. Second, the named-inventor pattern is highly variable. Some objects have a single named inventor (Singmaster, Coleman, Davis); others have convergent or anonymous origins (DAW chromatic-staircase, fighting-game numpad notation); others are community-versioned with named additions (the LGBTQ+ initialism); others are federation-crystallized after a period of community competition (algebraic chess, BÉPO). Third, the propagation mechanism is almost always \emph{not} a binary. It is pedagogy, expectation, citation, or written reference --- the apparatus of a literate community.
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The boundary of the category is worth drawing crisply. \textbf{Open formats} like PNG and MP3 are governed by specifications and reference implementations~\citep{sterne2012mp3} --- closer to format than to social software. \textbf{Open protocols} like HTTP and IRC have RFCs and steward bodies --- Galloway's \emph{Protocol}~\citep{galloway2004protocol} covers this terrain. \textbf{Folksonomies} (tags, hashtags) are content-classification rather than interface-as-object. \textbf{Memes} propagate but are content. The keymap is distinct from all of these: \emph{a small declarative table that mediates input/output, with no governing body, that nonetheless behaves as if standardized}.
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note = {Tertiary reference summarizing the arrow-key vs.\ WASD transition; cites pre-WASD experiments such as System Shock's ASDX (1994) and Descent's AZ+QE (1995). \url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_keys}.},
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@misc{glaad_reference_guide,
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author = {{GLAAD}},
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title = {{GLAAD} Media Reference Guide},
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year = {2024},
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edition = {11},
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howpublished = {\url{https://glaad.org/reference}},
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note = {Style reference documenting the revision history of the {LGBTQ+} initialism (LGB $\rightarrow$ LGBT $\rightarrow$ LGBTQ $\rightarrow$ LGBTQIA $\rightarrow$ LGBTQIA2S+). Cited here strictly for the acronymic / versioned-without-governing-body parallel; substantive treatment of identity-terminology politics is out of scope for the present paper.},
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