During my last year of high school, I was struggling to swallow food. S ome of us can easily describe ourselves as gay, straight or bisexual, but other people find these static labels inadequate. People who exhibit gender variance may be called gender variant. Growing up, I had an eating disorder and I struggled with bulimia for five years. Gender variance, or gender nonconformity, is the behavior by an individual that does not match masculine and feminine gender norms. Gender Queer is an umbrella term for gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine - identities that are thus outside of the gender binary. Pansexuality, or omnisexuality, is sexual attraction, romantic love, or emotional attraction toward people of any sex or gender identity. Intersex is a variation in sex characteristics, including chromosomes that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified as male or female.Īsexuality (or non-sexuality) is the lack of sexual attraction to anyone.Īn Ally is a person who considers herself, himself as a friend to the LGBT community. This test will show you where you are on the Sexual Orientation Continuum. Although many people believe that everyone is either 'straight' (heterosexual) or 'gay' (homosexual), sexual orientation actually exists on a continuum. The questioning(unsure) of one’s gender, sexual identity, sexual orientation, or all three. The test has been empirically validated with a sample of more than 600,000 people in 219 countries and territories. However, some LGBTQIA people still find the term offensive. Avoid identifying gay people as homosexuals an outdated term considered derogatory and offensive to many lesbian and gay people. But, beginning in the late-80s, LGBTIQ activists began to reclaim the word. Queer was originally used as an insult against the LGBT community. Queer is sometimes used as an umbrella term for the LGBT community, or people that are not heterosexual or cisgender (Cisgender people are people whose gender identity and expression match the sex they were assigned at birth.). Transgender people have a gender identity/expression that differs from the sex that they were assigned at birth. It means a man is sexually/romantically attracted to men.Ī bi is sexually/romantically attracted to both women and men.
It means a woman is sexually/romantically attracted to women.Ī gay is a homosexual man. What does LGBT/LGBTQ+/LGBTQIA+/LGBTTTQQIAA+ mean? LetterĪ lesbian is a homosexual woman.