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The following outline offers an overview and guide to topics about LGBTQ people. ''
LGBTQ LGBTQ people are individuals who are lesbian, Gay men, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (sexuality and gender), questioning. Many variants of the initialism are used; LGBTQIA+ people incorporates intersex, Asexuality, asexual, ...
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initialism An acronym is a type of abbreviation consisting of a phrase whose only pronounced elements are the initial letters or initial sounds of words inside that phrase. Acronyms are often spelled with the initial letter of each word in all caps wi ...
that stands for "
lesbian A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexu ...
, gay,
bisexual Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females. It may also be defined as the attraction to more than one gender, to people of both the same and different gender, or the attraction t ...
,
transgender A transgender (often shortened to trans) person has a gender identity different from that typically associated with the sex they were sex assignment, assigned at birth. The opposite of ''transgender'' is ''cisgender'', which describes perso ...
, and
queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...
". It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual, non-heteroromantic, and/or non-
cisgender The word ''cisgender'' (often shortened to ''cis''; sometimes ''cissexual'') describes a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth, i.e., someone who is not ''transgender''. The prefix '' cis-'' is Latin and ...
, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.


Sexuality

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Human sexuality Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. This involves biological, psychological, physical, erotic, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Because it is a broad term, which has varied ...
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Sexology Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, Human sexual activity, behaviors, and functions. The term ''sexology'' does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sexuality, such as social crit ...
*** Sexology (magazine) ** Sexual diversity ** Gendered sexuality ***
Gender variance Gender nonconformity or gender variance is gender expression by an individual whose behavior, mannerisms, and/or appearance does not match masculine or feminine gender norms. A person can be gender-nonconforming regardless of their gender identity ...
*** Human male sexuality *** Human female sexuality *** Transgender sexuality * Sexual attraction ** Androphilia and gynephilia ** Attraction to transgender people ** Achillean ** Sapphism ** Split attraction model *
Sexual orientation Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. Patterns ar ...


Sexual orientation types

* Monosexuality **
Homosexuality Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or Human sexual activity, sexual behavior between people of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexu ...
* Plurisexuality **
Bisexuality Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or Human sexual activity, sexual behavior toward both males and females. It may also be defined as the attraction to more than one gender, to people of both the same and different gender, ...
***
Pansexuality Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people of all genders, or regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not de ...
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Asexuality Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or Sexual desire, desire for Human sexual activity, sexual activity. It may be considered a sexual orientation or the lack thereof. It may also be categori ...
** Gray asexuality *** Aceflux *** Fictosexuality *** Demisexuality *** Fraysexuality


Topics

* Ego-dystonic sexual orientation *
Environment and sexual orientation The relationship between the environment and sexual orientation is a subject of research. In the study of sexual orientation, some researchers distinguish environmental influences from hormonal influences, while other researchers include biologi ...
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Biology and sexual orientation The relationship between biology and sexual orientation is a subject of ongoing research. While scientists do not know the exact cause of sexual orientation, they theorize that it is caused by a complex interplay of Genetics, genetic, hormonal, a ...
** Neuroscience and sexual orientation ** Prenatal hormones and sexual orientation ** Handedness and sexual orientation ** Epigenetic theories of homosexuality ** Fraternal birth order and male sexual orientation * Demographics of sexual orientation * Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine * Scales of sexual orientation * Sexual fluidity ** Bi-curiosity ** Heteroflexibility * Gray asexuality *
Queer heterosexuality Queer heterosexuality is the heterosexual practice or identity that is also controversially called queer. "Queer heterosexuality" is argued to consist of heterosexual, cisgender, and allosexual persons who show nontraditional gender expression ...


By Region

* Sexuality in Africa * Sexuality in Bangladesh * Sexuality in China * Sexuality in India * Sexuality in Japan * Sexuality in Somalia * Sexuality in South America * Sexuality in South Korea * Sexuality in the Philippines * Sexuality in the United States


By culture

* Sexuality in Christian demonology * Sexuality in Islam * Sexuality in Star Trek * Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings * Sexuality in ancient Rome * Sexuality in music videos * Sexuality in older age


Identities

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Queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...
* Questioning


Sexual identity topics

* Sexual orientation identities ** Non-heterosexual *** LGBTQ psychology *** Heteroflexible ***
Homosexual Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between people of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" exc ...
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Lesbian A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexu ...
**** Gay ****
Gay men Gay men are male homosexuals. Some bisexual men, bisexual and homoromantic men may dually identify as ''gay'' and a number of gay men also identify as ''queer''. Historic terminology for gay men has included ''Sexual inversion (sexology), in ...
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Bisexual Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females. It may also be defined as the attraction to more than one gender, to people of both the same and different gender, or the attraction t ...
*** Pansexual *** Bi-curious *** Asexual *
Romantic orientation Romantic orientation, also called affectional orientation, is the classification of the sex or gender which a person experiences romantic attraction towards or is likely to have a romantic relationship with. The term is used alongside the t ...
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Aromantic Aromanticism is a romantic orientation characterized by experiencing little to no romantic attraction. The term "aromantic", Colloquialism, colloquially shortened to "aro", refers to a person whose romantic orientation is aromanticism. It is d ...


Gender identity topics

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Gender identity Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals, the various biological determinants of sex are congruent and consistent with the in ...
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Man A man is an adult male human. Before adulthood, a male child or adolescent is referred to as a boy. Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromosome from the f ...
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Woman A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or Adolescence, adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functi ...
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Non-binary Non-binary or genderqueer Gender identity, gender identities are those that are outside the male/female gender binary. Non-binary identities often fall under the transgender umbrella since non-binary people typically identify with a gende ...
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Third gender Third gender or third sex is an identity recognizing individuals categorized, either by themselves or by society, as neither a man nor a woman. Many gender systems around the world include three or more genders, deriving the concept either from ...
*** Androgynos *** *** Apwint *** Bakla *** Bugis genders *** Chibados *** Enaree ***
Eunuch A eunuch ( , ) is a male who has been castration, castrated. Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2 ...
*** Fa'afafine *** Fakaleitī ***
Femminiello or (singular , also spelled as ''femmeniello'') are a population of people who embody a third gender role in traditional Neapolitan language, Neapolitan culture. This term is culturally distinct from trans women, trans woman, and has its own ...
*** Galli *** Güevedoce *** Hijra *** Kathoey *** Khanith *** Köçek *** Koekchuch *** Lhamana *** *** Mak nyah *** Mukhannathun *** Muxe *** Nádleehi *** Nullo *** Rae-rae *** Sipiniq *** Sworn virgin *** Takatāpui *** Travesti *** Tumtum ***
Two-spirit ''Two-spirit'' (also known as ''two spirit'' or occasionally ''twospirited'', or abbreviated as ''2S'' or ''2E'', especially in Canada) is a umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a trad ...
*** Winkte *
Gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...
** Androgyne ** Cisgender ** Transgender *** Trans men *** Trans women *** Non-binary *** Transsexual *** Gender-affirming surgery


Sex and physiology

* Male * Female * Endosex * Intersex


Romance

* Cross-sex relationships involving LGBTQ people * Same-sex relationship ** LGBTQ romance ** Boys' love ***Shōnen Ai no Bigaku *** Yaoi **** Yaoi fandom *
Romantic orientation Romantic orientation, also called affectional orientation, is the classification of the sex or gender which a person experiences romantic attraction towards or is likely to have a romantic relationship with. The term is used alongside the t ...
** Aromanticism ** Same gender loving * Split attraction model


Expression

* Camp (style), Camp * Coming out * Passing (gender) * Cross-dressing ** Drag (clothing) *** Drag pageantry *** Drag king *** Drag queen *** Female queen (drag) ** Transvestism * Gender roles ** Manhood ** Womanhood ** Gender roles in non-heterosexual communities * Gender expression ** Masculinity ** Femininity ** Epicenity ** Androgyny * Homoeroticism * Effeminacy * Butch and femme


Practices

* Men who have sex with men **Gay beat ** Gay bathhouse * Women who have sex with women * Sexual practices between men * Sexual practices between women


Society

* Education and the LGBTQ community ** LGBTQ student movement ** LGBTQ student center ** GLSEN ** Gay–straight alliance ** LGBTQ bullying ** LGBTQ sex education ** Safe Schools Coalition Australia ** Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association


Homosexuality

* Societal attitudes towards homosexuality * Homosexuality in society ** Homosexuality in American football ** Homosexuality in Australian rules football ** Homosexuality in China ** Decriminalization of homosexuality in Ecuador ** Homosexuality in English football ** Homosexuality in India ** Homosexuality in Indonesia ** Homosexuality in Japan ** Homosexuality in Mexico ** Homosexuality in Sri Lanka ** Homosexuality in ancient Egypt ** Homosexuality in ancient Greece ** Homosexuality in ancient Rome ** Homosexuality in association football ** Homosexuality in college sports ** Homosexuality in football ** Homosexuality in medieval Europe ** Homosexuality in modern sports ** Homosexuality in pre-Columbian Peru ** Homosexuality in society ** Homosexuality in sports in the United States ** Homosexuality in the Batman franchise ** Homosexuality in the DSM ** Homosexuality in the Hebrew Bible ** Homosexuality in the New Testament ** Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece


Lesbianism

* Lesbians in Francoist Spain * Lesbianism in Gibraltar * Lesbians in Nazi Germany * Lesbians in pre-modern Spain * Lesbians in the Spanish Second Republic * Lesbians in the Spanish democratic transition period * Lesbianism in Sri Lanka


Adoption, parenting, and same-sex marriage

* Same-sex adoption * Same-sex parenting ** LGBTQ adoption and parenting in Australia ** LGBTQ parenting in Canada ** Same-sex adoption in Brazil ** Same-sex adoption in Europe ** Same-sex adoption in the United Kingdom ** Same-sex adoption in the United States * Same-sex marriage ** Same-sex marriage and Judaism ** Same-sex marriage and the family


Same-sex marriage (SSM) by region

* Same-sex marriage in Andorra * Same-sex marriage in Argentina * Same-sex marriage in Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten * Same-sex marriage in Australia * Same-sex marriage in Austria ** Same-sex marriage in the Australian Capital Territory * Same-sex marriage in Belgium * Same-sex marriage in Brazil ** Same-sex marriage in Alagoas ** Same-sex marriage in Santa Catarina * Same-sex marriage in Chile * Same-sex marriage in Colombia * Same-sex marriage in Costa Rica * Same-sex marriage in Cuba * Same-sex marriage in Denmark ** Same-sex marriage in the Faroe Islands * Same-sex marriage in Ecuador * Same-sex marriage in Estonia * Same-sex marriage in Finland * Same-sex marriage in France * Same-sex marriage in Georgia (country), Same-sex marriage in Georgia * Same-sex marriage in Germany * Same-sex marriage in Greece * Same-sex marriage in Greenland * Same-sex marriage in Iceland * Same-sex marriage in Liechtenstein * Same-sex marriage in Luxembourg * Same-sex marriage in Malta * Same-sex marriage in Nepal * Same-sex marriage in New Zealand * Same-sex marriage in Norway * Same-sex marriage in Portugal * Same-sex marriage in Slovenia * Same-sex marriage in South Africa * Same-sex marriage in Spain * Same-sex marriage in Sweden * Same-sex marriage in Switzerland * Same-sex marriage in Taiwan * Same-sex marriage in Thailand * Same-sex marriage in Uruguay * Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands ** Same-sex marriage in Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba * Same-sex marriage in the Republic of Ireland


SSM in Canada

* Same-sex marriage in Canada ** Same-sex marriage in Alberta ** Same-sex marriage in British Columbia ** Same-sex marriage in Manitoba ** Same-sex marriage in New Brunswick ** Same-sex marriage in Newfoundland and Labrador ** Same-sex marriage in the Northwest Territories ** Same-sex marriage in Nova Scotia ** Same-sex marriage in Nunavut ** Same-sex marriage in Ontario ** Same-sex marriage in Prince Edward Island ** Same-sex marriage in Quebec ** Same-sex marriage in Saskatchewan ** Same-sex marriage in Yukon


SSM in Mexico

* Same-sex marriage in Mexico ** Same-sex marriage in Aguascalientes ** Same-sex marriage in Baja California ** Same-sex marriage in Baja California Sur ** Same-sex marriage in Campeche ** Same-sex marriage in Coahuila ** Same-sex marriage in Colima ** Same-sex marriage in Chiapas ** Same-sex marriage in Chihuahua ** Same-sex marriage in Durango ** Same-sex marriage in Guerrero ** Same-sex marriage in Guanajuato ** Same-sex marriage in Hidalgo ** Same-sex marriage in Jalisco ** Same-sex marriage in the State of Mexico ** Same-sex marriage in Mexico City ** Same-sex marriage in Michoacán ** Same-sex marriage in Morelos ** Same-sex marriage in Nayarit ** Same-sex marriage in Nuevo León ** Same-sex marriage in Oaxaca ** Same-sex marriage in Puebla ** Same-sex marriage in Querétaro ** Same-sex marriage in Quintana Roo ** Same-sex marriage in San Luis Potosí ** Same-sex marriage in Sinaloa ** Same-sex marriage in Sonora ** Same-sex marriage in Tamaulipas ** Same-sex marriage in Tabasco ** Same-sex marriage in Tlaxcala ** Same-sex marriage in Veracruz ** Same-sex marriage in Yucatán ** Same-sex marriage in Zacatecas


SSM in the UK

* Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom ** Same-sex marriage in Akrotiri and Dhekelia ** Same-sex marriage in Bermuda ** Same-sex marriage in the Cayman Islands ** Same-sex marriage in Guernsey ** Same-sex marriage in Gibraltar ** Same-sex marriage in Jersey ** Same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland ** Same-sex marriage in Scotland ** Same-sex marriage in the Isle of Man ** Same-sex marriage in the Falkland Islands ** Same-sex marriage in the Pitcairn Islands ** Same-sex marriage in the British Antarctic Territory ** Same-sex marriage in the British Indian Ocean Territory ** Same-sex marriage in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ** Same-sex marriage in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha


SSM in the US

* Same-sex marriage in the United States ** Same-sex unions in the United States ** Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States ** Same-sex marriage law in the United States by state *** Same-sex marriage in Alabama *** Same-sex marriage in Alaska *** Same-sex marriage in Arizona *** Same-sex marriage in Arkansas *** Same-sex marriage in California *** Same-sex marriage in Colorado *** Same-sex marriage in Connecticut *** Same-sex marriage in Delaware *** Same-sex marriage in Florida *** Same-sex marriage in Georgia (U.S. state) *** Same-sex marriage in Hawaii *** Same-sex marriage in Idaho *** Same-sex marriage in Illinois *** Same-sex marriage in Indiana *** Same-sex marriage in Iowa *** Same-sex marriage in Kansas *** Same-sex marriage in Kentucky *** Same-sex marriage in Louisiana *** Same-sex marriage in Maine *** Same-sex marriage in Maryland *** Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts *** Same-sex marriage in Michigan *** Same-sex marriage in Minnesota *** Same-sex marriage in Mississippi *** Same-sex marriage in Missouri *** Same-sex marriage in Montana *** Same-sex marriage in Nebraska *** Same-sex marriage in Nevada *** Same-sex marriage in New Hampshire *** Same-sex marriage in New Jersey *** Same-sex marriage in New Mexico *** Same-sex marriage in New York *** Same-sex marriage in North Carolina *** Same-sex marriage in North Dakota *** Same-sex marriage in Ohio *** Same-sex marriage in Oklahoma *** Same-sex marriage in Oregon *** Same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania *** Same-sex marriage in Rhode Island *** Same-sex marriage in South Carolina *** Same-sex marriage in South Dakota *** Same-sex marriage in Tennessee *** Same-sex marriage in Texas *** Same-sex marriage in Utah *** Same-sex marriage in Vermont *** Same-sex marriage in Virginia *** Same-sex marriage in Washington (state) *** Same-sex marriage in West Virginia *** Same-sex marriage in Wisconsin *** Same-sex marriage in Wyoming *** Same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia ** Same-sex marriage law in the United States by territory *** Same-sex marriage in American Samoa *** Same-sex marriage in Guam *** Same-sex marriage in the Northern Mariana Islands *** Same-sex marriage in Puerto Rico *** Same-sex marriage in the United States Virgin Islands ** Same-sex marriage legislation in the United States


Same-sex partnerships, and immigration

* Civil union ** Unregistered cohabitation in Israel ** Civil union in New Zealand ** De facto union in Portugal ** Civil unions in Quebec ** Civil partnership in South Africa ** Civil partnership in the United Kingdom * Same-sex immigration policy in Brazil * Same-sex immigration policy of the United States


People topics

* LGBTQ people in Australia * LGBTQ people in Brazil * LGBTQ people in Canada * LGBTQ topics in Chile (disambiguation), LGBTQ topics in Chile * LGBTQ people in Colombia * LGBTQ in Guatemala * LGBTQ people in Mexico * LGBTQ people in New Zealand * LGBTQ in Puerto Rico * LGBTQ people in prison * LGBTQ people in the Russo-Ukrainian War * LGBTQ people in science * LGBTQ topics in the United States ** LGBTQ people in the United States


Themes

* LGBTQ themes in African diasporic mythologies * LGBTQ themes in American mainstream comics * LGBTQ themes in anime and manga * LGBTQ themes in Chinese mythology * LGBTQ themes in Hindu mythology * LGBTQ themes in horror fiction * LGBTQ themes in comics * LGBTQ themes in mythology * LGBTQ themes in speculative fiction * LGBTQ themes in video games * LGBTQ themes in Western animation


Language

* Gay male speech * Gayle language * IsiNgqumo * List of LGBTQ acronyms, LGBTQ acronyms * LGBTQ linguistics * Linguistic profiling, LGBTQ linguistic profiling * LGBTQ slang ** Down-low (sexual slang) * Polari * Swardspeak * Terminology of homosexuality


Culture

* LGBTQ culture *Queer art ** LGBTQ art in Singapore ** List of LGBTQ art exhibitions in Britain * List of LGBTQ-related films ** LGBTQ cinema in Latin America * LGBTQ community **African-American LGBTQ community ** Bisexual community, Bi community ** Transgender community, Trans community * LGBTQ movements ** Homophile#Homophile movement (1940–1970), Homophile Movement ** Gay liberation, Gay liberation movement ** Lesbian feminism ** LGBTQ movements in the United States * LGBTQ symbols ** Pride flag * Gay bar * Lesbian bar * Gay Games * Gay icons * Gay pride ** Black gay pride ** WorldPride *LGBTQ pride events in Singapore * Gay village * Gaydar * Queer art * LGBTQ music * LGBTQ slogans * Queer nationalism * Pinkwashing (LGBTQ)


By country

* LGBTQ culture in Argentina * LGBTQ culture in Hong Kong * LGBTQ culture in India * LGBTQ culture in Ireland * LGBTQ culture in Japan * LGBTQ culture in Mexico * LGBTQ culture in Russia * LGBTQ culture in Singapore * LGBTQ culture in the Philippines


By city

* LGBTQ culture in Bangalore * LGBTQ culture in Beijing * LGBTQ culture in Berlin * LGBTQ culture in Brighton and Hove * LGBTQ culture in Cardiff * LGBTQ culture in Chengdu * LGBTQ culture in Chennai * LGBTQ culture in Hyderabad * LGBTQ culture in Istanbul * LGBTQ culture in Leeds * LGBTQ culture in Liverpool * LGBTQ culture in London * LGBTQ culture in Paris * LGBTQ culture in Prague * LGBTQ culture in Puerto Vallarta * LGBTQ culture in Shanghai * LGBTQ culture in Sydney * LGBTQ culture in Tokyo * LGBTQ culture in Vancouver * LGBTQ culture in Vienna


By US region

* LGBTQ culture in Austin, Texas * LGBTQ culture in Boston * LGBTQ culture in Baltimore * LGBTQ culture in Chicago * LGBTQ culture in Dallas–Fort Worth * LGBTQ culture in Eugene, Oregon * LGBTQ culture in Houston * LGBTQ culture in Los Angeles * LGBTQ culture in Metro Detroit * LGBTQ culture in Miami * LGBTQ culture in Nashville * LGBTQ culture in New York City * LGBTQ culture in Philadelphia * LGBTQ culture in Portland, Oregon * LGBTQ culture in San Antonio * LGBTQ culture in San Francisco * LGBTQ culture in Seattle * LGBTQ culture in St. Louis * LGBTQ culture in Washington, D.C. * Queer culture in the Southern United States


LGBTQ media

* LGBTQ media


Print

* The Gay News-Telegraph * Gay News * Queer Zine Archive Project *Shōnen Ai no Bigaku


Moving Image

* Gay News and Views * New Queer Cinema * Gay pornography * Lesbian erotica * Bisexual pornography * Transgender pornography * Queer pornography * GayVN Awards * Media portrayal of LGBTQ people ** LGBTQ representation in children's television ** LGBTQ representation in hip hop music ** LGBTQ representation in South Korean film and television ** LGBTQ representation in The Simpsons ** Intersex representation in film ** Intersex representation in television


History

* LGBTQ history ** First homosexual movement ** Gay Liberation ** History of male homosexuality ** History of lesbianism ** History of same-sex unions ** History of bisexuality ** Stonewall riots ** Transgender history


By country

* LGBTQ history in Australia * LGBTQ history in Argentina * LGBTQ history in Bangladesh * LGBTQ history in Belgium * LGBTQ history in Brazil * LGBTQ history in Canada * LGBTQ history in Chile * LGBTQ history in China * LGBTQ history in the Czech Republic * LGBTQ people in the Dominican Republic * LGBTQ history in Finland * LGBTQ history in France * LGBTQ history in Georgia (country), LGBTQ history in Georgia * LGBTQ history in Greece * LGBTQ history in Honduras * LGBTQ history in Hungary * LGBTQ history in India * LGBTQ history in Iran * LGBTQ history in Ireland * LGBTQ history in Italy * LGBTQ history in Israel * LGBTQ history in Kenya * LGBTQ history in Latvia * LGBTQ history in Mexico * LGBTQ history in Nauru * LGBTQ history in the Netherlands * LGBTQ history in Niger * LGBTQ history in North Dakota * LGBTQ history in Norway * LGBTQ history in Pakistan * LGBTQ history in Peru * LGBTQ history in Poland * LGBTQ history in Portugal * LGBTQ history in Romania * LGBTQ history in Russia * LGBTQ history in Serbia * LGBTQ history in Singapore * LGBTQ history in South Korea * LGBTQ history in Spain * LGBTQ history in Sudan * LGBTQ history in Sweden * LGBTQ history in Switzerland * LGBTQ history in Taiwan * LGBTQ history in Thailand * LGBTQ history in Turkey * LGBTQ history in Uganda * LGBTQ history in Yugoslavia * LGBTQ history in the Soviet Union


In the US

* LGBTQ history in the United States ** LGBTQ historic places in the United States ** Lesbian American history ** Gay men in American history ** Bisexual American history ** Transgender American history ** LGBTQ history in Atlantic City, New Jersey ** LGBTQ history in California ** LGBTQ history in Chinatown, San Francisco ** LGBTQ history in Connecticut ** LGBTQ history in Florida ** LGBTQ history in Georgia (U.S. state) ** LGBTQ history in Hawaii ** LGBTQ history in Illinois ** LGBTQ history in Louisiana ** LGBTQ history in Massachusetts ** LGBTQ history in Michigan ** LGBTQ history in New York ** LGBTQ history in Rhode Island ** LGBTQ history in South Dakota ** LGBTQ history in Texas ** LGBTQ history in Vermont


Timelines

* Timeline of LGBTQ history, 20th century * Timeline of LGBTQ history, 21st century * Timeline of African and diasporic LGBTQ history * Timeline of Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic LGBTQ history * Timeline of LGBTQ history in Canada * Timeline of LGBTQ history in Ecuador * Timeline of LGBTQ history in Germany * Timeline of LGBTQ history in South Africa * Timeline of South Asian and diasporic LGBTQ history * Timeline of LGBTQ history in the United Kingdom ** Timeline of LGBTQ history in Manchester * Timeline of LGBTQ history in the United States ** Timeline of LGBTQ history in New York City * Timeline of LGBTQ journalism * Timeline of LGBTQ Jewish history * Timeline of LGBTQ Mormon history * Timeline of transgender history * Timeline of intersex history * Timeline of asexual history * Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine


Religion

* Queer theology * Religion and LGBTQ people ** LGBTQ people and Islam, Islam and LGBTQ people ** Hinduism and LGBTQ topics, Hinduism and LGBTQ people ** Modern paganism and LGBTQ people ** Unitarian Universalism and LGBTQ people ** Pope Francis and LGBTQ topics, Pope Francis and LGBTQ people * Homosexuality and religion, Religion and homosexuality ** Christianity and homosexuality *** The Bible and homosexuality *** Homosexuality and Baptist churches, Baptist churches and homosexuality *** Catholic Church and homosexuality, Catholicism and homosexuality *** Homosexuality and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS Church and homosexuality *** Homosexuality and Lutheranism, Lutheranism and homosexuality *** Homosexuality and Methodism, Methodism and homosexuality *** Homosexuality and Pentecostalism, Pentacostalism and homosexuality *** Presbyterianism and homosexuality *** Homosexuality and Quakerism, Quakerism and homosexuality *** Homosexuality and Seventh-day Adventism, Seventh-day Adventism and homosexuality ** Homosexuality and Taoism, Taoism and homosexuality ** Baháʼí views on homosexuality, Baháʼí Faith and homosexuality ** Buddhism and homosexuality ** Hare Krishna movement and homosexuality ** Haitian Vodou and homosexuality ** Jewish views on homosexuality, Judaism and homosexuality *** Conservative Judaism and homosexuality ** Sikhism and homosexuality ** Scientology and homosexuality ** Zoroastrianism and homosexuality * Transgender people and religion, Religion and transgender people ** Gender minorities and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, LDS Church and transgender people * Intersex people and religion, Religion and intersex people * LGBTQ themes in mythology, Mythology and LGBTQ themes ** LGBTQ themes in Hindu mythology, Hindu mythology and LGBTQ themes ** LGBTQ themes in African diasporic mythologies, African diasporic mythologies and LGBTQ themes ** Homoerotic themes in Greek and Roman mythology, Classical European mythology and LGBTQ themes ** LGBTQ themes in Chinese mythology, Chinese mythology and LGBTQ themes


Rights

* UN declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity * Yogyakarta Principles * Declaration of Montreal * LGBTQ rights at the United Nations * Gender self-identification * Legal status of transgender people ** Legal recognition of non-binary gender * Intersex human rights ** Intersex Human Rights Australia ** Legal recognition of intersex people * Right to sexuality


By major region

* LGBTQ rights by country or territory ** LGBTQ rights in Africa ** LGBTQ rights in the Americas ** LGBTQ rights in Antarctica ** LGBTQ rights in Asia ** LGBTQ rights in Europe ** LGBTQ rights in Oceania


By area


Ideology

** Socialism and LGBTQ rights ** Communism and LGBTQ rights ** Libertarian perspectives on LGBTQ rights


Bibliography

* LGBTQ literature * Bisexual literature * Gay literature ** Gay New York ** G-men (magazine) * Lesbian literature * LGBTQ themes in comics ** LGBTQ themes in anime and manga *** Bara (genre) *** Yaoi **** Shotacon *** Yuri (genre) * LGBTQ themes in speculative fiction * Slash fiction ** Femslash * Transgender literature * LGBTQ literature in Argentina * LGBTQ literature in Colombia * LGBTQ literature in Ecuador * LGBTQ literature in El Salvador * LGBTQ literature in Iceland * LGBTQ literature in Mexico * LGBTQ literature in Singapore * LGBTQ literature in Spain * LGBTQ literature in the Dutch-language area * Black lesbian literature in the United States


Lists

* Lists of LGBTQ people ** List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people, LGB people *** List of bisexual people, Bisexual people *** List of people who identify as sexually fluid, Sexually fluid people *** List of pansexual people, Pansexual people ** List of transgender people, Transgender people *** List of non-binary people, Non-binary people ** List of intersex people, Intersex people ** List of people on the aromantic spectrum, Aromantic people ** List of people on the asexual spectrum, Asexual people ** List of LGBTQ writers, LGBTQ writers ** List of cross-dressers, Cross-dressers ** Lists of LGBTQ politicians *** List of LGBTQ holders of political offices in Australia ** List of LGBTQ Jews * List of LGBTQ-related films, LGBTQ-related films * List of graphic art works with LGBTQ characters, LGBTQ characters in graphic arts ** List of webcomics with LGBTQ characters, LGBTQ-related webcomics ** List of gay characters in anime ** List of yaoi anime and manga * Lists of LGBTQ figures in fiction and myth ** List of BL dramas * List of LGBTQ-related awards * List of gender identities * List of LGBTQ community centers in the United States, LGBTQ community centers in the US * List of LGBTQ events, LGBTQ events * List of LGBTQ holidays, LGBTQ holidays * List of LGBTQ periodicals * List of years in LGBTQ rights, Years in LGBTQ rights * List of LGBTQ rights articles by region * Healthcare and the LGBTQ community * List of LGBTQ-related organizations and conferences ** List of LGBTQ rights organizations ** List of LGBTQ organizations that affiliate with political parties ** List of LGBTQ medical organizations ** List of bisexuality-related organizations


Lists of LGBTQ fictional characters

** List of fictional lesbian characters ** List of fictional gay characters ** List of fictional bisexual characters ** List of fictional pansexual characters ** List of fictional trans characters ** List of fictional non-binary characters ** List of fictional intersex characters ** List of fictional aromantic characters ** List of fictional asexual characters


Anti-LGBTQ topics

* AIDS stigma – prejudice against people with HIV+ and AIDS * Amatonormativity – is the set of societal assumptions that everyone prospers with an exclusive romantic relationship * List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBTQ hate groups, Anti-LGBTQ hate groups * Anti-homosexual attitudes – societal attitudes against homosexuality * Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric – themes, catchphrases, and slogans which have been used to condemn or demean LGBTQ people ** Homophobic propaganda – propaganda based on negative and homophobia towards homosexual, putatively homosexual and sometimes other non-heterosexual or non-cisgender people ** LGBTQ grooming conspiracy theory - far-right conspiracy theory that those in the LGBTQ community and allies are either grooming children or enabling grooming ** Rapid-onset gender dysphoria controversy, Rapid-onset gender dysphoria - the scientifically unsupported hypothesis that adolescents identity as transgender or experience gender dysphoria due to social contagion. * Cairo 52 – in Egypt, fifty-two men charged with "habitual practice of debauchery" and "obscene behaviour" under Article 9c of Law No. 10 of 1961 * Cissexism or cisnormativity– bias in favor of people who identify with the gender assigned to them at birth ** Transphobia – antipathy toward transgender people ** Anti-gender movement – movement which seeks to discredit gender in favor of assigned sex ** ''TERF'' – acronym for Trans-exclusionary radical feminism ** Trans-exclusionary radical feminism or Gender-critical feminism, anti-trans movement ** Transmisogyny – antipathy toward trans women ** Trans panic defense – a legal strategy in which a defendant claims they acted in a state of violent, temporary insanity * Contact hypothesis – showing that contact with LGBTQ people mitigate dislike * Criminalization of homosexuality * Detransition#Criminalization_of_gender-affirming_care, Criminalization of gender-affirming care * Discrimination against gay men * Discrimination against LGBTQ people * Discrimination against intersex people * Discrimination against lesbians * Discrimination against non-binary gender people * Drag panic - a moral panic that drag is harmful to minors * Ego-dystonic sexual orientation – mental disorder of having a sexual orientation or an attraction that is at odds with one's idealized self-image * Ex-gay movement – people who once identified as homosexual or bisexual, but who no longer assert that identity * Heteronormativity – lifestyle norms that holds that people fall into distinct and complementary genders with natural roles in life * Heterosexism – attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of heterosexuality or heterosexual people ** Homophobia – antipathy toward homosexual people ** Lesbophobia – antipathy toward lesbians ** Biphobia – antipathy toward bisexual people ** Pansexuality, Panphobia – Dislike or prejudice against pansexuality or pansexual people. ** Acephobia – antipathy toward asexual people ** Arophobia - antipathy toward aromantic people. * Intersex medical interventions#Human_rights_issues, Intersex medical intervention human rights issues * Queer erasure – tendency to intentionally or unintentionally remove
LGBTQ LGBTQ people are individuals who are lesbian, Gay men, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (sexuality and gender), questioning. Many variants of the initialism are used; LGBTQIA+ people incorporates intersex, Asexuality, asexual, ...
groups or people from record, or downplay their significance ** Conversion therapy – pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity. ** Censorship of LGBTQ issues ** Anti-LGBTQ curriculum laws in the United States, Anti-LGBTQ curriculum laws in the U.S. - laws limiting the inclusion of LGBTQ subjects in public schools. ** Book banning in the United States (2021–present), Book bans due to LGBTQ content in the U.S. ** Intersex erasure ** Lesbian erasure ** Bisexual erasure ** Straightwashing – portraying LGBTQ, LGB or otherwise
queer ''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...
characters in fiction as heterosexual ** Capital punishment for homosexuality ** Gay gang murders – a series of suspected Anti-LGBTQ violence, anti-LGBTQ hate crimes perpetrated by large gangs of youths in Sydney, between 1970 and 2010 ** Anti-gay purges in Chechnya – forced disappearances, secret abductions, imprisonment, torture and extrajudicial killing by authorities targeting persons based on their perceived sexual orientation * LGBTQ rights opposition – opposition to legal rights for LGBTQ people ** LGBTQ-free zone ** 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States ** 21st-century anti-trans movement in the United Kingdom * LGBTQ stereotypes * Violence against LGBTQ people – violence motivated by sexuality or gender identity ** Corrective rape - rape motivated against the victim's perceived sexual orientation or gender non-conformity; it is often intended make the victim heterosexual ** Gay bashing – verbal or physical abuse against a person who is perceived by the aggressor to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual ** Gay panic defense – a legal defence for assault or homicide alleging a sexual advance by the victim against the assailant ** List of people killed for being transgender ** Trans bashing – the act of victimizing a person physically, sexually, or verbally because they are transgender or transsexual


Other topics

* LGBTQ conservatism ** LGBTQ conservatism in the United States * LGBTQ demographics of the United States * LGBTQ employment discrimination in the United States * LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers in Canada * LGBTQ retirement issues in the United States * LGBTQ tourism ** LGBTQ tourism in Brazil * LGBTQ visibility in the Eurovision Song Contest * Queer advocacy in the Gaza war


See also

* Outline of transgender topics * Bibliography of works on the United States military and LGBTQ topics * Gay-friendly * Healthcare and the LGBTQ community ** LGBTQ health in South Korea ** LGBTQ healthcare in the United States Veterans Health Administration * Hermaphrodite * Homosexuality and psychology * LGBTQ youth vulnerability * LGBTQ psychology * Mental disorders and gender * Suicide among LGBTQ people ** List of suicides of LGBTQ people ** Epidemiology of suicide#Race and sexual orientation, Sexual orientation and suicide ** Suicide#Sex and gender, Sex and gender in suicide * Transgender youth * Neuroqueer theory


References

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