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Its the "LGBTQ+ movement" not the "everyone movement" because it's calling out how queer people have been historically marginalized and persecuted and not everyone. Cisgender, heterosexual people are the norm, that's why this subcommunity exists. It just so happens that there are a lot of subgroups within this small community that share very similar idealogies and so it becomes (more or less) one bigger movement.
Moreover, the flag you sent came to be to specifically to call out all the different groups in the umbrella movement, to not let them get drowned out by the vagueness of the combined movement.
All these groups are fighting for different but not necessarily opposing things. Fighting simply for a "better life for all", while noble, is really naive. You need to get specific about the things you want to tackle.
It's not like these groups fight alone, you can be a feminist, anti-fascist, queer person of color and support multiple things you believe in.
Egalitarianism isn't just "better life for all" without a plan, just like Feminism isn't "Equality for Women" without a plan.
Uniting under the banner of Egalitarianism as a group, rather than stating you're not that but are instead a feminist, would be like saying "I'm not in the LGBTQ+ movement, I'm a Trans Rights activist".
Everytime people like you insist (even if coming from a place with good intentions) we shouldn't consider ourselves egalitarian, you weaken all groups that would benefit from standing united under it. There's a reason right wing propaganda networks constantly argue against the term "Egalitarian" and try to keep groups like Feminists isolated from others - because it would hurt them if it actually gained in popularity.
There are indeed many people who would not qualify as egalitarian. Libertarians, Republicans, Musk - all of them hate it, because "equality for all" is in fact not as broad as you would hope, unfortunately.