Homophobia – concern with lesbians and men that are gay. Prejudice is generally a more description that is accurate of or antipathy toward LGBT people.
Intersex – individuals who obviously (this is certainly, without the medical interventions) develop main and/or additional sex faculties that don’t fit nicely into society’s definitions of man or woman. Numerous visibly intersex babies/children are surgically modified by medical practioners to create their sex faculties conform to societal binary norm expectations. Intersex individuals are reasonably typical, although society’s denial of the presence has allowed extremely small space for intersex dilemmas to be discussed publicly. Has replaced hermaphrodite, which will be inaccurate, outdated, problematic, and generally unpleasant, as it means having both sexes and also this is perhaps not always real, as you can find at the very least 16 various ways to be intersex.
Within the full lif – usually utilized by communities of color to denote addition when you look at the LGBTQ communities.
Kinsey Scale – Alfred Kinsey, a sociologist that is renowned described a range on a scale of 0 6 to explain the sort of sexual interest within a person. 0 Totally Heterosexual 6: Completely Homosexual. In the 1948 work intimate Behavior into the Human Male. The Kinsey Scale is actually utilized to dissect the bisexual community and explain the differences when considering intimate orientation and sexual choice.
Lesbian – A woman whoever enduring real, romantic and/or attraction that is emotional with other ladies. Some lesbians may like to determine as homosexual (adj.) or as homosexual females.
LGBTQQIA – An acronym used to refer to any or all minorities that are sexual Lesbian, Gay/Gender Neutral/Gender Queer, Bisexual/Bigender, Transgender/Transvestite/Transsexual, Questioning/Queer, Intersex, and Allies/Androgynous/Asexual.
Life style – (see Offensive Terms to Avoid) Inaccurate term utilized by anti-gay extremists to denigrate lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transgender everyday everyday lives. As there’s no one straight lifestyle, there’s no one lesbian, homosexual, bisexual or transgender lifestyle.
Guys Loving Men (MLM) – widely used by communities of color to denote the attraction of males to guys.
Guys whom Have Sex with Guys – men, including people who usually do not determine on their own as homosexual or bisexual, who participate in intercourse along with other men (used in public areas health contexts in order to avoid men that are excluding identify as heterosexual).
Openly Gay – defines those who self-identify as lesbian or homosexual within their individual, general general general public and/or lives that are professional. Additionally freely lesbian, freely bisexual, freely transgender.
Outing – The work of publicly declaring (sometimes centered on rumor and/or conjecture) or revealing another person’s sexual orientation or sex identification without that person’s permission. Considered inappropriate by a big part of the LGBT community.
Pansexual – not restricted in intimate choice pertaining to biological intercourse, sex, or sex identity.
Queer – usually a pejorative term, queer was appropriated by some LGBT people to spell it out by themselves. But, it’s not universally accepted also in the LGBT community and really should be prevented unless somebody self-identifies like that.
Questioning – The procedure for considering or exploring one’s orientation that is sexual sex identification.
Sexual Orientation – The term that is scientifically accurate an individual’s enduring real, intimate and/or psychological attraction to people in exactly the same and/or opposite sex, including lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and heterosexual (right) orientations. Prevent the unpleasant term intimate choice, that is used to claim that being homosexual or lesbian is voluntary and for that reason treatable.
Intimate Behavior – Refers to an individual’s intimate activities or actions ( just just what a person does intimately). Though often an individual’s orientation that is sexual consistent with their intimate behavior, it is really not constantly the outcome.