LGBT
is an
initialism
that means
l
esbian
,
g
ay
,
b
isexual
, and
t
ransgender
. It refers to the
community
of people who are not
heterosexual
, which means to be attracted to the other gender, or
cisgender
, which means to identify as the gender you were born as.
[2]
[3]
It has been taken up by many
sexuality
and
gender identity
-related community centers.
Before the
"
sexual revolution
"
of the 1960s, there was no
neutral
word or group of words for people who were not
heterosexual
.
The word
"
homosexual
"
started being used in America to describe
sexual orientations
that were not
heterosexual
. However, this word began to have bad
connotations
, as many people thought that it sounded like a condition or mental illness, and therefore the word "
homophile
" was used instead.
[4]
After that, the word "
gay
" replaced the word "homophile" in the 1970s.
[5]
As
lesbians
became more public about their sexuality in the 1970s, the group of words
"gay and lesbian"
was often used,
[2]
and a phase of
lesbian feminism
started. This meant that certain lesbian feminist groups separated because did not have knowledge of if they should put
feminism
or
LGBT rights
first.
[6]
Lesbian feminists viewed the separation between "
butch
" and "
femme
" in mainstream gay (male) culture of the time in the same way that they viewed the separation in society over
gender roles
between men and women. They saw these ideas as
patriarchal
and did not want to join the
mainstream
gay rights movement because of what they saw as the
chauvinism
of
gay men
, and refused to take up their cause.
[7]
Many lesbians who were not lesbian feminists saw this as not giving help to the gay rights movement.
[8]
This was followed by many
bisexual
and
transgender
people wanting to be seen as respected groups in the LGBT community.
[2]
Before gender reassignment surgery was massively improved in later years, transgender people had a hard time being accepted. Still, they fought for their rights, and were greatly boosted when plastic surgery and hormone surgery helped them to be accepted as the gender they identify with.
After the
Stonewall riots
, there was a change in points of view among the gay and lesbian community. Many gays and lesbians became less accepting of bisexual and transgender persons in general.
[9]
[10]
Many gays and lesbians thought that transgender people were acting out stereotypes and that bisexuals were actually gay, but in too much fear to "
come out of the closet
".
[9]
This separation still exists today, and it only became common to speak of all members of the LGBT community with equal respect in the trouble for LGBT rights in the late 1990s.
[10]
Some people who are LGBT may not "come out", as they may be a target of
discrimination
or
prejudice
, such as
homophobia
or
transphobia
.
[11]
Many countries have discriminatory laws against LGBT people, some even giving out the
death penalty
for being gay or bisexual.
[12]
When not including transgender persons in general, the acronym is sometimes shortened to just "
LGB
".
[10]
[13]
Many other letters are added to the acronym, so much so that it has been described as an "alphabet soup" by some.
[14]
[15]
[16]
A few of the other letters added are:
Not everyone is in agreement what should or should not be covered in the acronym, or which order the letters should go in.
[17]
- The group of words
gender and sexual diversity
(
GSD
) has been shown as a different option to LGBT by some, as it is seen as more inclusive and less limiting.
[31]
- SGL
(
same-gender loving
) is sometimes used among gay male
African Americans
as a way of distinguishing themselves from what they think of as
white
LGBT groups of persons.
[32]
- MSM
(
men who have sex with men
) is used to describe men who have sex with other men without having relation to their sexual orientation, often in a
medical
context
.
[33]
[34]
- WSW
(
women who have sex with women
) is the opposite of MSM. It includes all women who have sex with women.
- AMAB
(assigned male at birth) is used to describe people who were assigned the male sex at birth.
- AFAB
(assigned female at birth) is used to describe people who were assigned the female sex at birth.
- AIAB
(assigned intersex at birth) is used to describe people who were assigned intersex at birth.
[33]
- MOGAI
(marginalized orientations and gender alignments or identities and intersex) is a term somebody can use instead of using the term LGBT. MOGAI treats the idea of
gender modality
as more important than these other words do.
[35]
It is an umbrella term because it is about many different kinds of people: A
gay man
and a
trans woman
, for example, are both MOGAI.
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"Why New York City is a Major Destination for LGBT Travelers"
. 17 August 2017.
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2.0
2.1
2.2
Swain, Keith W. (21 June 2007).
"Gay Pride Needs New Direction"
.
Denver Post
. Retrieved
2008-07-05
.
- ↑
Shankle, Michael D. (2006).
The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health: A Practitioner's Guide To Service
. Haworth Press.
ISBN
978-1-56023-496-8
.
- ↑
Minton, Henry (2002).
Departing from Deviance
. University of Chicago Press.
ISBN
978-0-226-53043-7
. Retrieved
2009-01-01
.
- ↑
Ross, E. Wayne (2006).
The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities
. SUNY Press.
ISBN
978-0-7914-6909-5
.
- ↑
Esterberg, Kristen (September, 1994). "From Accommodation to Liberation: A Social Movement Analysis of Lesbians in the Homophile Movement."
Gender and Society
,
8
, (3) p. 424?443.
- ↑
Faderman, Lillian (1991).
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America
, Penguin Books.
ISBN
978-0-14-017122-8
, p. 210?211.
- ↑
Faderman (1991), p. 217?218.
- ↑
9.0
9.1
Leli, Ubaldo; Drescher, Jack (2005).
Transgender Subjectivities: A Clinician's Guide
. Haworth Press.
ISBN
978-0-7890-2576-0
.
- ↑
10.0
10.1
10.2
Alexander, Jonathan; Yescavage, Karen (2004).
Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of The Others
. Haworth Press.
ISBN
978-1-56023-287-2
.
- ↑
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Archived
2015-03-11 at the
Wayback Machine
, Better Health Channel (Accessed 22 December 2014)
- ↑
LGBT rights globally
(Standard English Wikipedia)
- ↑
Bohan, Janis S. (1996).
Psychology and Sexual Orientation: Coming to Terms
. Routledge.
ISBN
978-0-415-91514-4
.
- ↑
Multiple.
"Lgbt Alphabet Soup"
.
The Huffington Post
. Retrieved
20 December
2014
.
- ↑
Tobia, Jacob.
"LGBTQIA: A Beginner's Guide to the Great Alphabet Soup Of Queer Identity"
.
mic.com
. Policy.Mic
. Retrieved
20 December
2014
.
- ↑
"LGBTQQIAAP - "Alphabet Soup 101" - PugetSoundOff.org"
. Retrieved
6 October
2014
.
- ↑
17.0
17.1
17.2
17.3
17.4
Suresha, Ron (19 September 2013).
"
'Diversities' May Enrich 'LGBTQIAP' Alphabet Soup"
.
The Huffington Post
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20 December
2014
.
- ↑
The Santa Cruz County in-queery, Volume 9, Santa Cruz Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Community Center, 1996
. The Center. 2008-11-01
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2011-10-23
.
- ↑
Bloodsworth-Lugo, Mary K. (2007).
In-Between Bodies: Sexual Difference, Race, and Sexuality
. SUNY Press.
ISBN
978-0-7914-7221-7
.
- ↑
Alder, Christine; Worrall, Anne (2004).
Girls' Violence: Myths and Realities
. SUNY Press.
ISBN
978-0-7914-6110-5
.
- ↑
Cherland, Meredith Rogers; Harper, Helen J. (2007).
Advocacy Research in Literacy Education: Seeking Higher Ground
. Routledge.
ISBN
978-0-8058-5056-7
.
- ↑
William L. Maurice, Marjorie A. Bowman,
Sexual medicine in primary care
, Mosby Year Book, 1999,
ISBN
978-0-8151-2797-0
- ↑
Aragon, Angela Pattatuchi (2006).
Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer Perspectives
. Haworth Press.
ISBN
978-1-56023-645-0
. Retrieved
2008-07-05
.
- ↑
Makadon, Harvey J.; Mayer, Kenneth H.; Potter, Jennifer; Goldhammer, Hilary (2008).
The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health
. ACP Press.
ISBN
978-1-930513-95-2
.
- ↑
"Yogyakarta Principles in Action, Activist's Guide"
. Ypinaction.org
. Retrieved
2011-10-23
.
- ↑
Kuykendall, Emily.
"What the A in LGBTQIA+ Stands For"
.
Buddy Project
.
Archived
from the original on 21 May 2021
. Retrieved
21 May
2021
.
The A in LGBTQIA+ stands for asexual, aromantic, and agender[…]
- ↑
Estraven
We are all somewhere between straight and gay . . . .
Archived
2011-07-08 at the
Wayback Machine
April 20, 2009
BiNet USA News and Opinions
- ↑
HIV Awareness and First LGBT March in Pune a Short Report
Archived
2014-04-29 at the
Wayback Machine
, December 22, 2011
- ↑
What does LGBTQIAPN stand for?
. Retrieved
2022-02-05
.
- ↑
"LGBTQIAPD - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Pansexual, Demisexual | AcronymFinder"
.
www.acronymfinder.com
. Retrieved
2022-05-20
.
- ↑
Organisation proposes replacing the ‘limiting’ term LGBT with ‘more inclusive’ GSD
, February 25, 2013
- ↑
Brown, Catrina; Wald, Kenneth D.; Wilcox, Clyde (2006).
The Politics of Gay Rights
. University of Chicago Press.
ISBN
978-1-4129-0988-4
.
- ↑
33.0
33.1
Young, R M & Meyer, I H (2005) The Trouble with "MSM" and "WSW": Erasure of the Sexual-Minority Person in Public Health Discourse American Journal of Public Health July 2005 Vol. 95 No. 7.
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"7 important events in history for the LGBTQIA+ community in Nepal"
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