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LGBT (or GLBT) is an abbreviation used as a collective term to refer to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. It is not an acronym, but an adaption of the abbreviation LGB. While still controversial (see Controversy below), it is considered less controversial than the terms queer or lesbigay and is more comprehensive than homosexual or simply gay. The acronym GLBT is sometimes used in the United States, but to a lesser extent elsewhere. Lesbian describes a homosexual woman. ...
In modern society, gay is a word which can be used as either a noun or adjective. ...
Bisexuality in human sexual behavior refers to the aesthetic, romantic, and sexual desire for people of both genders and/or for people of both sexes. ...
Transgender is generally used as an overarching term for a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies along the gender continuum that are opposite to or in divergence from the gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned for life at birth. ...
LGBT (or GLBT) is an abreviation used as a collective term to refer to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people. ...
Queer has traditionally meant ‘strange’ or ‘unusual’, but is currently often used in reference to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities. ...
Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ...
In modern society, gay is a word which can be used as either a noun or adjective. ...
Many variants exist. The most commonly used involve adding a Q for queer or questioning, an A for straight ally, an I for intersex, or a P for pansexual or polyamorous. Queer has traditionally meant ‘strange’ or ‘unusual’, but is currently often used in reference to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities. ...
Questioning is a term used when a person is contemplating how to define their sexual or gender orientation. ...
Straight ally is a term used in organizing for gay straight equality to refer to straight people who are active, despite a supposedly common view that it has nothing to do with them and provides no short or long term benefits. ...
An intersexual is a person (or individual of any unisexual species) who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sexual characteristics of indeterminate sex, or which combine features of both sexes. ...
The adjective pansexual refers to equal acceptance of all of the major human sexual orientations and identities, including heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, as well as transgender, transsexual and intersex people. ...
Polyamory is the practice or lifestyle of being part of more than one long-term, intimate, and, often, sexual loving relationship at the same time, with the full knowledge and consent of all partners involved. ...
Meaning of each term
Each term in the acronym is used to refer to members of the specific group and to the community (subculture) that surrounds them. This can include rights advocates, artists, authors, etc. As understood in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, a subculture is a set of people with a distinct set of behavior and beliefs that differentiate them from a larger culture of which they are a part. ...
Lesbian - For more details on this topic, see lesbian.
In this context, lesbian refers to females with a sexual orientation towards females; and the general lesbian (and to some extent, parts of the lesbian-supportive feminist) community. Lesbian describes a homosexual woman. ...
Sexual orientation refers to the sex, sexes, gender or genders, to which a person is attracted and which form the focus of a persons amorous or erotic desires, fantasies, and spontaneous feelings. ...
Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ...
Gay - For more details on this topic, see gay.
In this context, gay refers specifically to males with a sexual orientation towards males; and the gay male community, though the term can be used without respect to the gender of the person in question in wider contexts. In modern society, gay is a word which can be used as either a noun or adjective. ...
Bisexual - For more details on this topic, see bisexuality.
Bisexual refers to persons who are attracted to both males and females. Bisexuality can fall anywhere between the sexual orientations of homosexuality and heterosexuality. Bisexuality in human sexual behavior refers to the aesthetic, romantic, and sexual desire for people of both genders and/or for people of both sexes. ...
Transgender - For more details on this topic, see transgender.
Transgender is generally used as a catch-all umbrella term for a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups centered around the full or partial reversal of gender roles as well as physical sexual reassignment therapies (which can be just hormonal or involve various degrees of surgical alteration). A common definition is "People who feel that the gender they were assigned (usually at birth) is a false or incomplete description of themselves." Included in this definition are a number of well known sub-categories such as transsexual, transvestite and sometimes genderqueers. (See also cross-dressing.) Transgender is generally used as an overarching term for a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies along the gender continuum that are opposite to or in divergence from the gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned for life at birth. ...
The expression umbrella term means a word that provides a superset or grouping of related concepts. ...
A transsexual (sometimes transexual) person establishes a permanent identity with the opposite gender to their assigned (usually at birth) sex. ...
The term transvestism has undergone several changes of meaning since it was coined in the 1910s; and it is still used in all of these meanings except the very first one. ...
A genderqueer person is part of a group of people who do not fit into the traditional two-gender or gender-binary system. ...
This articles is about cross-dressing in general, that is the act of wearing the clothing of another gender for any reason. ...
Intersex - For more details on this topic, see intersex.
This term (represented by the letter "I" in the LGBTI and GLBTI initialisms) may or may not be included, and some intersex communities are not inclusive of non-intersex LGBT persons (while some are). An intersexual is a person (or individual of any unisexual species) who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sexual characteristics of indeterminate sex, or which combine features of both sexes. ...
Intersex refers to ambiguous or mismatching sexual characteristics (including levels of sex hormones) and those people who have them. This is distinct from the older term hermaphrodite, which is generally not accurate when referring to vertebrates (including humans). In many cases, the line between intersex and transgender is complex, and some individuals fit into both classifications. Sexual characteristics are those characteristics in a human or animal which are used to determine its physical sex. ...
Sex hormones are hormones that affect the reproductive system. ...
The 1st-century BC sculpture The Reclining Hermaphrodite, in the Museo Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme in Rome In zoology, a hermaphrodite is an organism of a species whose members possess both male and female sexual organs during their lives. ...
Typical classes Petromyzontidae (lampreys) Placodermi - extinct Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) Acanthodii - extinct Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish) Actinistia (coelacanths) Dipnoi (lungfish) Amphibia (amphibians) Reptilia (reptiles) Aves (birds) Mammalia (mammals) Vertebrata is a subphylum of chordates, specifically, those with backbones or spinal columns. ...
History This section is about the term "LGBT". For a history of the gay rights movement, see Gay rights and LGBT history. The gay rights movement is a collection of loosely aligned civil rights groups, human rights groups, support groups and political activists seeking acceptance, tolerance and equality for non-heterosexual, (homosexual, bisexual), and transgender people - despite the fact that it is typically referred to as the gay rights movement, members also...
The History of Sexuality is also the title of a book, by Michel Foucault. ...
Up until the sexual revolution of the 1960s there were no widely known terms for describing the people in these groups other than the derogatory terms used by the straight community; third gender, in use before the second world war, fell out of use after it. As people began organizing for their sexual rights they needed a term that would say who they were in a positive way. (Compare heteronormativity) To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...
The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...
Heterosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love or sexual desire exclusively for members of the opposite sex or gender, contrasted with homosexuality and distinguished from bisexuality and asexuality. ...
Third gender was used from the late 19th century to describe people who did not fit into the then existing gender categories: female genitalia = female identity = female behavior = desire male partner male genitalia = male identity = male behavior = desires female partner Today this scheme is also known as binary gender system...
Heteronormativity is a term used in the discussion of sexual behavior, gender, and society, primarily within the fields of queer theory and gender theory. ...
The first term used, Homosexual, carried too much negative baggage and was replaced by "Gay". As Lesbians forged their own identity, the term "Gay and Lesbian" became more common. Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ...
LGBT became increasingly common from the mid 1990s and as of 2005, LGBT has become so mainstream that it has been adopted by the majority of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community centers and the gay press in most English-speaking countries. In October 2004, media company PlanetOut Inc., which owns the PlanetOut.com and Gay.com domains, chose LGBT as its ticker symbol when it listed on the NASDAQ exchange after a successful IPO. To date it has remained mostly a text-based, rather than a conversational, term. The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive. ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
List of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Community Centers: // Canada Ontario Ottawa - Ottawa GLBTQ Community Centre Initiative (website) Toronto - The 519 located at Church and Wellesley(website) The University of Toronto Drop-in Centre (website) Quebec Montréal - Centre communautaire des gais et lesbiennes de Montréal (website) British...
The gay press or queer press is composed of media entities owned by or targeted to various lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
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2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
PlanetOut Inc. ...
NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is a U.S. electronic stock market. ...
Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
Variants Many variants exist, including variations which merely change the order of the letters; but LGBT is the most common acronym and the one most accepted in current usage. When not inclusive of transgender people it is shortened to LGB. It may also include two additional Qs for queer and questioning (sometimes abbreviated with a question mark) (LGBTQ, LGBTQQ); a variant being LGBU, where U stands for "unsure", an I for intersex (LGBTI), another T for transsexual (LGBTT), another T (or TS or the numeral 2) for two-spirited people, and an A for straight allies (LGBTA). At its fullest, then, it is some permutation of LGBTTTIQQA, though this is extremely rare. The magazine Anything That Moves coined the acronym FABGLITTER (from Fetish, Allies, Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Intersexed, Transgender, Transsexual Engendering Revolution). This term has not made its way into common usage. Queer has traditionally meant ‘strange’ or ‘unusual’, but is currently often used in reference to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities. ...
An intersexual is a person (or individual of any unisexual species) who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sexual characteristics of indeterminate sex, or which combine features of both sexes. ...
A transsexual (sometimes transexual) person establishes a permanent identity with the opposite gender to their assigned (usually at birth) sex. ...
Berdache (from French, from Arabic bardajo meaning kept boy) is a generic term used by some for a third gender (woman-living-man) among many, if not most, Native American tribes. ...
Straight ally is a term used in organizing for gay straight equality to refer to straight people who are active, despite a supposedly common view that it has nothing to do with them and provides no short or long term benefits. ...
Anything that Moves was an internationally distributed bisexual quarterly magazine containing stories, poetry, news and other information of interest. ...
Sexual fetishism, first described as such by Alfred Binet in his Le fétichisme dans l’amour, though the concept and certainly the activity is quite ancient, is a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is a specific inanimate object or part of a persons body. ...
It has been suggested that Revolutionary be merged into this article or section. ...
The terms transsexual and intersex are regarded by some people as falling under the umbrella term transgender, though many transsexual and intersex people object to this (both for different reasons). Gay-straight alliance (GSA) organizations often use LGBTQA for LGBT — questioning and allies. YOU ALL NEED TO ACCEPT YOUR SEXUALITY...BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL..HAHA FREAK! please dont edit our page The pride flag, news articles, and flyers for social events on this high school bulletin board represent the diverse support and advocacy purposes that GSAs serve. ...
Some variants are local alterations that are used to the exclusion of others by virtue of being commonplace in a region. For example, in Minnesota the term GLBT is more prominent. Official language(s) None Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 12th 225,365 km² 400 km 645 km 8. ...
Controversy LGBT is not uncontroversial. For example, some transgender and transsexual people do not like the term because they do not believe their cause is the same as that of LGB people; they may also object when an organization adds a T to their acronym when the level of service they actually offer to trans people is questionable. There are also LGB people who don't like the T for the same or similar reasons.
Many people also believe that a sharp distinction should be drawn between sexual orientation and gender identity. GLB concerns the former; TTI concerns the latter. Sexual orientation refers to the sex, sexes, gender or genders, to which a person is attracted and which form the focus of a persons amorous or erotic desires, fantasies, and spontaneous feelings. ...
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Similarly, some intersex people want to be included into LGBT groups and would prefer LGBTI; others insist that they are not a part of the LGBT community and would rather not be included in the acronym.
Many people have looked for a generic term to replace acronyms. Words like "queer" and "rainbow" have been tried but most have not been widely adopted. "Queer" has many negative connotations to older people who remember the word as a taunt and insult, a usage of the term which has continued. Many younger people also understand "queer" to be more politically charged than "LGBT". "Rainbow" has connotations that recall the hippies, New Age movements and politics (Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition.) Queer has traditionally meant ‘strange’ or ‘unusual’, but is currently often used in reference to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities. ...
Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. ...
New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ...
The Rev. ...
The Rainbow Coalition refers to at least three groups. ...
See also Bisexuality in human sexual behavior refers to the aesthetic, romantic, and sexual desire for people of both genders and/or for people of both sexes. ...
The notion of the bisexual community is complex and slightly controversial. ...
In modern society, gay is a word which can be used as either a noun or adjective. ...
The notion of the gay community is complex and slightly controversial. ...
In a variety of different contexts, gender refers to the masculinity or femininity of words, persons, characteristics, or non-human organisms. ...
Since the first coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ...
Lesbian describes a homosexual woman. ...
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Transgender is a very complex topic, where definitions are often still up in the air. ...
This is a list of organizations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trangendered people, or campaigning for the rights of LGBT people, or of allies of LGBT people. ...
The following is a list of publications aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual (LGBT) people, by country. ...
Queer has traditionally meant ‘strange’ or ‘unusual’, but is currently often used in reference to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities. ...
Queer theory is an anti-essentialist theory about sex and gender within the larger field of Queer studies. ...
Queer Theology is exploration of the nature of God and human-kinds relationship with God through the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people (although, as used within this field of theology, the term Queer can extend beyond LGBT people). ...
Transgender is generally used as an overarching term for a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies along the gender continuum that are opposite to or in divergence from the gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned for life at birth. ...
External links Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender - PlanetOut Inc.
- Extensive set of short LGBT biographies
- LGBT.com - currently a selection of blogs (or weblogs) for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities and their friends
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