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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 ...
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gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
". It may refer to anyone who is
non-heterosexual Non-heterosexual is a word for a sexual orientation or sexual identity that is not heterosexual. The term helps define the "concept of what is the norm and how a particular group is different from that norm". ''Non-heterosexual'' is used in fe ...
, 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 ...
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Sexual diversity Sexual diversity or gender and sexual diversity (GSD), refers to all the diversities of sex characteristics, sexual orientations and gender identities, without the need to specify each of the identities, behaviors, or characteristics that form ...
** 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 ...
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Human male sexuality Human male sexuality encompasses a wide variety of feelings and behaviors. Men's feelings of attraction may be caused by various physical and social traits of their potential partner. Men's sexual behavior can be affected by many factors, incl ...
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Human female sexuality Human female sexuality encompasses a broad range of behaviors and processes, including female sexual identity and sexual behavior, the physiological, psychological, social, cultural, political, and spiritual or religious aspects of sexual acti ...
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Transgender sexuality Sexuality in transgender individuals encompasses all the issues of sexuality of other groups, including establishing a sexual identity, learning to deal with one's sexual needs, and finding a partner, but may be complicated by issues of gender ...
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Sexual attraction Sexual attraction is attraction on the basis of sexual desire or the quality of arousing such interest. Sexual attractiveness or sex appeal is an individual's ability to attract other people sexually, and is a factor in sexual selection or m ...
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Androphilia and gynephilia In behavioral science, androphilia and gynephilia are sexual orientations: Androphilia is sexual attraction to men and/or masculinity; gynephilia is sexual attraction to women and/or femininity. Ambiphilia describes the combination of both androp ...
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Attraction to transgender people Sexual attraction to transgender people has been the subject of scientific study and social commentary. Psychologists have researched sexual attraction toward trans women, trans men, cross dressers, non-binary people, and a combination of th ...
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Achillean Achilleanism is an umbrella term for Man, men who are attracted to other men, regardless of Sexual orientation, sexual or romantic orientation. The term can thus include men who are gay, Bisexuality, bisexual, Pansexuality, pansexual, Ace-spectrum ...
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Sapphism ''Sapphism'' is an umbrella term for any woman Interpersonal attraction, attracted to women or in a Interpersonal relationship, relationship with another woman, regardless of their sexual orientations, and encompassing the romantic love between ...
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Split attraction model The split attraction model (SAM) is a model in psychology that distinguishes between a person's romantic and sexual attraction, allowing the two to be different from each other. History and identity The first recorded conceptualization of ori ...
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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

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Monosexuality Monosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction to members of one sex or gender only.Zhana Vrangalova, Ph.D., September 27, 2014, Psychology TodayStrictly Casual: What research tells us about the whos, whys, and hows of hookups Retrieved Oct. 2, 2 ...
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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 ...
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Plurisexuality Plurisexuality or multisexuality is a term used to describe individuals who are attracted to multiple genders. This includes certain sexual identities such as pansexuality, bisexuality, omnisexuality, and polysexuality, falling under the umb ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Gray asexuality Graysexuality, greysexuality, gray asexuality, or gray-sexuality is a sexuality within the asexual spectrum. It is often defined as limited amounts of sexual attraction that can vary in intensity. Individuals who identify with gray asexualit ...
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Aceflux Graysexuality, greysexuality, gray asexuality, or gray-sexuality is a sexuality within the asexual spectrum. It is often defined as limited amounts of sexual attraction that can vary in intensity. Individuals who identify with gray asexuality ...
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Fictosexuality Fictosexuality is sexual attraction towards fictional characters. Romantic attraction towards fictional characters is called ''fictoromantic attraction''. The term ''fictosexuality'' describes the desire to engage in sexual relationships with f ...
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Demisexuality Demisexuality is a term used to describe individuals who rarely experience primary sexual attraction – a type of attraction that is based on immediately observable characteristics such as appearance or smell, and is experienced immediately af ...
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Fraysexuality Graysexuality, greysexuality, gray asexuality, or gray-sexuality is a sexuality within the asexual spectrum. It is often defined as limited amounts of sexual attraction that can vary in intensity. Individuals who identify with gray asexualit ...


Topics

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Ego-dystonic sexual orientation Ego-dystonic sexual orientation is a highly controversial mental health diagnosis that was included in the American Psychiatric Association's ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'' (DSM) from 1980 to 1987 (under the name ego- ...
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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 ...
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Neuroscience and sexual orientation Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic 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, or none of the aforementioned at ...
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Prenatal hormones and sexual orientation The hormonal theory of sexuality holds that, just as exposure to certain hormones plays a role in fetal sex differentiation, such exposure also influences the sexual orientation that emerges later in the individual. Prenatal hormones may be seen ...
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Handedness and sexual orientation A relationship between handedness and sexual orientation has been suggested by a number of researchers, who report that heterosexual individuals are somewhat more likely to be right-handed than are homosexual individuals. The relationship between ...
** Epigenetic theories of homosexuality **
Fraternal birth order and male sexual orientation Fraternal birth order, also known as the older brother effect, has been correlated with male sexual orientation, with a significant volume of research finding that the more older brothers a male has from the same mother, the greater the probabilit ...
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Demographics of sexual orientation Obtaining precise numbers on the demographics of sexual orientation is difficult for a variety of reasons, including the nature of the research questions. Most of the studies on sexual orientation rely on self-reported data, which may pose challe ...
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Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine Timeline of events related to sexual orientation and medicine 19th century 1886 * Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, a German psychiatrist, published a study of sexual perversity: Psychopathia Sexualis. 20th century 1948 *''Sexual Behavior ...
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Scales of sexual orientation Scales of sexual orientation are classification schemes of different sexual orientations. Definitions of the term ''sexual orientation'' normally include two components: the "psychological" and the "behavioral" component, but definitions of the two ...
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Sexual fluidity Sexual fluidity is one or more changes in sexuality or sexual identity (sometimes known as sexual orientation identity). Sexual orientation is stable for the vast majority of people, but some research indicates that some people may experience ch ...
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Bi-curiosity Bi-curious (also bicurious) is a term for a person, usually someone who is a self-identified heterosexual, who is curious or open about engaging in sexual activity with a person whose sex differs from that of their usual sexual partners. The term ...
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Heteroflexibility Heteroflexibility is a form of a sexual orientation or situational sexual behavior characterized by minimal homosexual activity in an otherwise primarily heterosexual orientation, which may or may not distinguish it from bisexuality. It has been ...
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Gray asexuality Graysexuality, greysexuality, gray asexuality, or gray-sexuality is a sexuality within the asexual spectrum. It is often defined as limited amounts of sexual attraction that can vary in intensity. Individuals who identify with gray asexualit ...
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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 Bangladesh is primarily influenced by religion and culture. The culture in Bangladesh is predominantly conservative and patriarchal. Several topics, including sex education, romantic relationship, and sexual behavior are considered ta ...
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Sexuality in China Sexuality in China has undergone dramatic changes throughout time. These changes can be categorized as "sexual revolution".The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality: ChinaDemographics and a Historical Perspective Chinese sexual attitudes, beha ...
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Sexuality in India India has developed its discourse on sexuality differently based on its distinct regions with their own unique cultures. According to R.P. Bhatia, a New Delhi psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, middle-class India's "very strong repressive attitu ...
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Sexuality in Japan Sexuality in Japan developed separately from that of mainland Asia, as Japan did not adopt the Confucian view of marriage, in which chastity is highly valued. Monogamy in marriage is often thought to be less important in Japan, and sometimes marr ...
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Sexuality in Somalia Literature on sexuality in Somalia has various focuses, from courtship, the motives behind FGM, extended singleness, marriage and the relationship between the sexes. It usually has a heterosexual focus, and norms surrounding sexuality can differ ...
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Sexuality in South America Human sexuality, Sexuality in South America varies by Geography of South America, region and time period. Before the European colonization of the Americas, arrival of Europeans in South America, the different Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indi ...
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Sexuality in the Philippines Although Westernization and globalization have influenced Filipinos who live in the metropolitan areas, the overall culture remains quite conservative in its sexual values. Filipino sexuality is affected by education received from schools, the me ...
* Sexuality in the United States


By culture

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Sexuality in Christian demonology The gender attributed to demons has varied from one belief system to the next. For example, to the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Jews, there were male and female demons. More specifically, Jewish demons were mostly male, although femal ...
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Sexuality in Islam Sexuality in Islam contains a wide range of views and laws, which are largely predicated on the Quran, and the sayings attributed to Muhammad (''hadith'') and the rulings of religious leaders (''fatwa'') confining sexual intercourse to relation ...
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Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings The presence of sexuality in ''The Lord of the Rings'', a bestselling fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, has been debated, as it is somewhat unobtrusive. However, love and marriage appear in the form of the warm relationship between the hobbits ...
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Sexuality in ancient Rome Sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome are indicated by Roman art, art, Latin literature, literature, and Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by classical archaeology, archaeological remains such as ero ...
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Sexuality in music videos Sexuality in music videos has been evident since the 1980s. Sexuality refers to how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. Music videos have been an integral part of popular culture and media consumption. From the early da ...
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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 Non-heterosexual is a word for a sexual orientation or sexual identity that is not heterosexual. The term helps define the "concept of what is the norm and how a particular group is different from that norm". ''Non-heterosexual'' is used in fe ...
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LGBTQ psychology LGBTQ psychology is a field of psychology surrounding the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals, in particular the diverse range of psychological perspectives and experiences of these individuals. It covers different aspects such as identity development inclu ...
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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 ...
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Gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late ...
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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 ...
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Pansexual 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 determ ...
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Bi-curious Bi-curious (also bicurious) is a term for a person, usually someone who is a self-identified heterosexual, who is curious or open about engaging in sexual activity with a person whose sex differs from that of their usual sexual partners. The term ...
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Asexual Asexual or Asexuals may refer to: *Asexual reproduction **Asexual reproduction in starfish *Asexuality, the lack of sexual attraction to anyone or lack of interest in or desire for sexual activity. **Gray asexuality, the spectrum between asexualit ...
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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 ...
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Androgynos In Jewish tradition, the term ''androgynos'' ( in Hebrew, transliterated: "ʾandərôg̲înôs",literally: man-woman, translation: "intersex") refers to someone who possesses both male and female sexual characteristics. Due to the ambiguous nature ...
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Apwint ''Apwint'' () is a culturally-specific term to Myanmar which is used to refer to individuals assigned male at birth who openly identify as women and are attracted to men. External to the local context, ''apwint'' are commonly regarded more broadly a ...
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Bakla In the Philippines, a baklâ ( Tagalog and Cebuano) (), bayot (Cebuano) or agî ( Hiligaynon) is a person who was assigned male at birth and has adopted a gender expression that is feminine. They are often considered a third gender. Many bakla ...
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Chibados ''Chibados'' (or ) are third-gender people, born male, who lived most often as women. They were found among the cultures of the Ndongo and other parts of what is today Angola. They were first described in the west by the Portuguese. Chibados wer ...
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Enaree The ''Enarei'', singular ''Enaree'', were Scythians, Scythian androgynous priests and shamanistic soothsayers who played an important role in the Scythian religion. They were feminine-presenting priests of male sex who served the goddesses Artimpa ...
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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 ...
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Fakaleitī A fakaleitī (or ''leiti'' or ''fakafefine'' or ''lady'') is a Tongan male at birth who has a feminine gender expression. The term ''fakaleitī'' is made up of the prefix ''faka-'' (in the manner of) and the borrowing ''lady'' from English. ''Fak ...
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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 ...
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Galli A ''gallus'' (pl. ''galli'') was a eunuch priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele (Magna Mater in Rome) and her consort Attis, whose worship was incorporated into the state religious practices of ancient Rome. Origins Cybele's cult may have o ...
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Hijra Hijra, Hijrah, Hegira, Hejira, Hijrat or Hijri may refer to: Islam * Hijrah (also ''Hejira'' or ''Hegira''), the migration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE * Migration to Abyssinia or First Hegira, of Muhammad's followers in 615 CE * L ...
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Kathoey ''Kathoey'' or ''katoey'' (, ; , , ; ; , ), commonly translated as ''ladyboys'' in English, is a term used by some people in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, whose identities in English may be best translated as transgender women in some cas ...
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Khanith Khanith (also spelled Khaneeth or referred to as Xanith; ) denotes a person assigned male at birth who occupies an intermediate "third gender" between male and female. Their mannerisms and behaviors fall between the socially constructed roles ...
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Köçek The ''köçek'' (plural in Turkish) was typically a young, male, and physically attractive enslaved dancer (''rakkas''), who usually cross-dressed in feminine attire, and was employed as an entertainer. Roots Turkish ''köçek'' derives ...
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Lhamana ''Lhamana'', in traditional Zuni culture, are biologically male people who take on the social and ceremonial roles usually performed by women in their culture, at least some of the time. Page 269 They wear a mixture of women's and men's clothing ...
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Mak nyah ''Mak Nyah'' (), alternatively spelled ''maknyah'', is a Malay vernacular term for trans women in Malaysia. It arose in the late 1980s in order to distinguish trans women from other minorities. The name is preferred by Malaysian trans women as o ...
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Mukhannathun Mukhannath (; plural ''mukhannathun'' (); "effeminate ones", "ones who resemble women") was a term used in Classical Arabic and Islamic literature to describe effeminate men or people with ambiguous sexual characteristics, who appeared feminine ...
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Muxe In Juchitán de Zaragoza, a Zapotec culture of Oaxaca (southeastern Mexico), a muxe (also spelled muxhe; ) is a person assigned male at birth who adopts aspects of feminine gender roles, including dress, behavior, and social standing. The ex ...
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Nádleehi ''Nádleehi'' is a social and, at times, ceremonial role in Diné (Navajo) culture – an "effeminate male" or "male-bodied person with a feminine nature". However, the ''nádleehi'' gender role is also fluid and cannot be simply described in term ...
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Rae-rae Rae-rae are transfeminine people in Tahitian culture related to Māhū (meaning "in the middle"), a gender category in Polynesia. History Connection to French military presence and sex work The development of the Rae-Rae identity coincided ...
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Sipiniq In Inuit culture, ''sipiniq'' (; West Greenland Inuttut: ''sipineq'', from ''sipi'' meaning "to split", plural ''sipiniit'') refers to a person who is believed to have changed their physical sex as an infant, but whose gender is typically designa ...
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Takatāpui (also spelled ; ) is a Māori language term that is used in a similar way to LGBT. When speaking Māori, LGBT people of any culture are referred to as . In English, a person is a Māori individual who is gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgende ...
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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 ...
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Winkte ' (also spelled ') is the contraction of an old Lakota word, ', meaning 'wants to be like a woman'. Historically, the ' have in some cases been considered a social category of male-bodied individuals who adopt the clothing, work, and mannerism ...
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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 ...
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Androgyne Androgyny is the possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics. Androgyny may be expressed with regard to biological sex or gender expression. When ''androgyny'' refers to mixed biological sex characteristics in humans, it often re ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Trans men A trans man or transgender man is a man who was assigned female at birth. Trans men have a male gender identity, and many trans men undergo Gender transition, medical and social transition to alter their appearance in a way that aligns with th ...
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Trans women A trans woman or transgender woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity and may experience gender dysphoria (distress brought upon by the discrepancy between a person's gender identity and their ...
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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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Transsexual A transsexual person is someone who experiences a gender identity that is inconsistent with their assigned sex, and desires to permanently transition to the sex or gender with which they identify, usually seeking medical assistance (incl ...
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Gender-affirming surgery Gender-affirming surgery (GAS) is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their gender identity. The phrase is most often associated ...


Sex and physiology

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Male Male (Planet symbols, symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or Egg cell, ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot sexual repro ...
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Female An organism's sex is female ( symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and ...
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Endosex An ''endosex'' person is someone whose innate sex characteristics fit normative medical ideas for female or male bodies. The word ''endosex'' is an antonym of ''intersex''. Etymology and meaning The prefix '' endo-'' comes from the Ancient Gre ...
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Intersex Intersex people are those born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binar ...


Romance

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Cross-sex relationships involving LGBTQ people While LGBT people are often defined by society for their lack of heterosexual relationships, heterosexual relationships among them are fairly common, especially among bisexual people and transgender people, who can be any sexual orientation, in ...
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Same-sex relationship A same-sex relationship is a romantic or sexual relationship between people of the same sex. ''Same-sex marriage'' refers to the institutionalized recognition of such relationships in the form of a marriage; civil unions may exist in countries ...
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LGBTQ romance LGBTQ romance is a genre within gay literature and romance fiction focused on same-sex characters who fall in love and have a homosexual or homoromantic relationship. The genre has met with increasing acceptance and sales from the 1980s onward. B ...
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Boys' love , also known by its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that depicts Homoeroticism, homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created by women for a female audience, distinguishing it fro ...
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Yaoi , also known by its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that depicts homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created by women for a female audience, distinguishing it from the equivale ...
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Yaoi fandom Boys' love (BL), a genre of male-male homoerotic media originating in Japan that is created primarily by and for women, has a robust global fandom. Individuals in the BL fandom may participate in activities such as attending conventions, creat ...
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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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Aromanticism Aromanticism is a romantic orientation characterized by experiencing little to no romantic attraction. The term "aromantic", colloquially shortened to "aro", refers to a person whose romantic orientation is aromanticism. It is distinct from, ...
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Same gender loving Same-gender-loving, or SGL, a term coined for African American and African Diaspora use by activist Cleo Manago, is a description for homosexuals in the African American community. It emerged in the early 1990s as a culturally affirming African A ...
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Split attraction model The split attraction model (SAM) is a model in psychology that distinguishes between a person's romantic and sexual attraction, allowing the two to be different from each other. History and identity The first recorded conceptualization of ori ...


Expression

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Camp Camp may refer to: Areas of confinement, imprisonment, or for execution * Concentration camp, an internment camp for political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or minority ethnic groups * Extermination ...
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Coming out Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBTQ people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. This is often framed and debated as a privacy issue, ...
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Passing (gender) In the context of gender, passing is someone being perceived as a gender they identify as or are attempting to be seen as, rather than their sex assigned at birth. Historically, this was common among women who served in occupations where they w ...
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Cross-dressing Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender. From as early as pre-modern history, cross-dressing has been practiced in order to disguise, comfort, entertain, and express onesel ...
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Drag (clothing) Drag is a performance of exaggerated femininity, masculinity, or other forms of gender expression, usually for entertainment purposes. Drag usually involves cross-dressing. A drag queen is someone (usually male) who performs femininely and a drag ...
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Drag pageantry Drag pageantry is a form of pageantry for female impersonators, drag queens, and trans women, styled after traditional beauty pageants or contests for cisgender women. It has also evolved into a pageantry for male impersonators, drag king ...
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Drag king Drag kings have historically been mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of an individual or group routine. As documented in the 2003 ''Journal of Homosexuality,'' in more r ...
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Drag queen A drag queen is a person, usually male, who uses Drag (entertainment), drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate Femininity, female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes. Historically, drag queens have ...
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Female queen (drag) An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and males ...
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Transvestism Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender. From as early as pre-modern history, cross-dressing has been practiced in order to disguise, comfort, entertain, and express onesel ...
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Gender role A gender role, or sex role, is a social norm deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their gender or sex. Gender roles are usually centered on conceptions of masculinity and femininity. The specifics regarding these gendered ...
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Manhood 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 fath ...
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Womanhood A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or 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 functional uteruses ...
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Gender expression Gender expression (or gender presentation) is a person's behavior, mannerisms, interests, and appearance that are associated with gender in a particular cultural context, typically understood in terms of masculinity and femininity. Gender expr ...
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Masculinity Masculinity (also called manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with men and boys. Masculinity can be theoretically understood as Social construction of gender, socially constructed, and there i ...
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Femininity Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and Gender roles, roles generally associated with women and girls. Femininity can be understood as Social construction of gender, socially constructed, and there is also s ...
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Epicenity Epicenity is the lack of gender distinction, often reducing the emphasis on the masculine to allow the feminine. It includes androgyny – having both masculine and feminine characteristics. The adjective '' gender-neutral'' may describe epiceni ...
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Androgyny Androgyny is the possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics. Androgyny may be expressed with regard to Sex, biological sex or gender expression. When ''androgyny'' refers to mixed biological sex characteristics in humans, it oft ...
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Homoeroticism Homoeroticism is sexual attraction between members of the same sex, including both male–male and female–female attraction. The concept differs from the concept of homosexuality: it refers specifically to the desire itself, which can be tempor ...
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Effeminacy Effeminacy or male femininity is the embodiment of feminine traits in boys or men, particularly those considered untypical of men or masculinity. These traits include roles, stereotypes, behaviors, and appearances that are socially associated wi ...
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Butch and femme ''Butch'' and ''femme'' (; ; ) are Masculinity, masculine (Butch (lesbian slang), ''butch'') or Femininity, feminine (Femme, ''femme'') identities in the lesbian subculture that have associated traits, behaviors, styles, self-perception, and s ...


Practices

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Men who have sex with men Men who have sex with men (MSM) are men who engage in sexual activity with other men, regardless of their sexual orientation or sexual identity. The term was created by epidemiologists in the 1990s, to better study and communicate the spre ...
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Gay beat In Australia, the term beat is used to refer to an area frequented by gay men, where sexual acts occur. This use of the word parodies the beat walked by a police officer or a prostitute. Most commonly, public toilets, parks, and nightclubs are ...
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Gay bathhouse A gay bathhouse, also known as a gay sauna or a gay steambath, is a public bath targeted towards Gay men, gay and Bisexuality, bisexual men. In gay slang, a bathhouse may be called just "the baths", "the sauna", or "the tubs". Historically, they ...
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Women who have sex with women Women who have sex with women (WSW) are women who engage in sexual activities with women, whether they identify as straight, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, have other sexualities, or dispense with sexual identification altogether. The term ''WSW ...
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Sexual practices between men Sexual activities involving men who have sex with men (MSM), regardless of their sexual orientation, can include anal sex, non-penetrative sex, and oral sex. Evidence shows that sex between men is significantly underreported in surveys. Beha ...
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Sexual practices between women Sexual activities involving women who have sex with women (WSW), regardless of their sexual orientation or sexual identity, can include oral sex, manual sex, or tribadism. Sex toys may be used. Romantic or sexual interpersonal relationship ...


Society

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Education and the LGBTQ community Historically speaking, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people have not been given equal treatment and rights by both governmental actions and society's general opinion. Much of the intolerance for LGBTQ individuals come f ...
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GLSEN GLSEN (pronounced ''glisten''; formerly the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) is an American education organization working to end discrimination, harassment, and bullying based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expres ...
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Gay–straight alliance A gay–straight alliance, gender–sexuality alliance (GSA) or queer–straight alliance (QSA) is a student-led or community-based organization, found in middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities. These are primarily in the Uni ...
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LGBTQ bullying Bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) people, particularly LGBTQ youth, involves intentional actions toward the victim, repeated negative actions by one or more people against another person, and an imbalance of phy ...
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Safe Schools Coalition Australia The Safe Schools Coalition Australia (SSCA) was a group of organisations in Australia focused on LGBTIQ people in schools. Its mission was to create safe and inclusive schools for students, families and staff who are in these groups. The primary ...
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Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association The Gay and Lesbian Teachers and Students Association (GaLTaS) was an Australian LGBT organisation active from 1991 to 1998 that was established during a wave of gay gang murders, to publicise widespread problems of anti-gay bullying and viol ...


Homosexuality

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Societal attitudes towards homosexuality Societal attitudes toward homosexuality vary greatly across different cultures and historical periods, as do attitudes toward sexual desire, activity and relationships in general. All cultures have their own values regarding appropriate and i ...
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Homosexuality in society Homosexuality, as a phenomenon and as a behavior, has existed throughout all eras in human societies. Demographics Reliable data as to the size of the gay and lesbian population is of value in informing public policy."Demographics of the Gay an ...
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Homosexuality in American football There has been only one player who has publicly come out as gay or bisexual while being an active player in the National Football League (NFL): Carl Nassib, who came out as gay on June 21, 2021, while with the Las Vegas Raiders. He became the f ...
** Homosexuality in Australian rules football **
Homosexuality in China Homosexuality has been documented in China since ancient times. According to one study by Bret Hinsch, for some time after the fall of the Han dynasty, homosexuality was widely accepted in China but this has been disputed. Several early Chinese ...
** Decriminalization of homosexuality in Ecuador ** Homosexuality in English football **
Homosexuality in India Homosexuality in India has shown its presence in most of the traditional native philosophies of the nation, and legal rights continue to be advanced in mainstream politics and regional politics. Homosexual cohabitation is also legally permitt ...
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Homosexuality in Indonesia Homosexuality in Indonesia is generally considered a taboo subject by both Indonesian civil society and the government. Public discussion of homosexuality in Indonesia has been inhibited because human sexuality in any form is rarely discussed or d ...
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Homosexuality in Japan Records of men who have sex with men in Japan date back to ancient times. Western scholars have identified these as evidence of homosexuality in Japan. Though these relations had existed in Japan for millennia, they became most apparent to schol ...
** Homosexuality in Mexico ** Homosexuality in Sri Lanka **
Homosexuality in ancient Egypt Homosexuality in ancient Egypt is a disputed subject within Egyptology. Historians and egyptologists alike debate what kinds of views the ancient Egyptians' society fostered about homosexuality. Only a handful of direct clues survive, and many pos ...
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Homosexuality in ancient Greece In classical antiquity, writers such as Herodotus, Plato, Xenophon, Athenaeus and many others explored aspects of homosexuality in Greek society. Among some elite circles this often took the form of pederasty, involving an adult man with an ado ...
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Homosexuality in ancient Rome Homosexuality in ancient Rome Societal attitudes toward homosexuality, differed markedly from the contemporary Western culture, West. Latin lacks words that would precisely Translation, translate "homosexual" and "heterosexual". The primary dich ...
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Homosexuality in association football 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" exclusi ...
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Homosexuality in college sports Although gay athletes and coaches are increasingly accepted in college sports, they continue to be controversial among some people. Athletes A study published in the ''Journal of Sex Research'' in February of 1977 found that around 25% of all m ...
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Homosexuality in medieval Europe In medieval Europe, attitudes toward homosexuality varied from region to region, determined by religious culture; the Catholic Church, which dominated the religious landscape, considered sodomy as a mortal sin and a "crime against nature". By the ...
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Homosexuality in modern sports The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other non-heterosexual or non-cisgender (LGBTQ+) community is prevalent within sports across the world. There have been several notable outspoken homosexual athletes, including John Curry, Billi ...
** Homosexuality in pre-Columbian Peru **
Homosexuality in society Homosexuality, as a phenomenon and as a behavior, has existed throughout all eras in human societies. Demographics Reliable data as to the size of the gay and lesbian population is of value in informing public policy."Demographics of the Gay an ...
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Homosexuality in sports in the United States The homosexual sports community in the United States has one of the highest levels of acceptance and support in the world and is rapidly growing as of 2020. General public opinion and jurisprudence regarding homosexuality in the United States has ...
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Homosexuality in the Batman franchise Academic study of the Batman franchise has involved gay interpretations since at least 1954, when psychiatrist Fredric Wertham asserted in his book ''Seduction of the Innocent'' that "Batman stories are psychologically homosexual". Several charac ...
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Homosexuality in the DSM Homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder in the '' Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'' (DSM) beginning with the first edition, published in 1952 by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). This classification wa ...
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Homosexuality in the Hebrew Bible There are a number of passages in the Hebrew Bible that have been interpreted as involving same-sex sexual acts, desires, and relationships. The passages about homosexual individuals and sexual relations in the Hebrew Bible are found primarily ...
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Homosexuality in the New Testament Since 1980, scholars have debated the translation and modern relevance of New Testament texts on homosexuality. Three distinct passages – Romans 1:26–27, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, and 1 Timothy 1:9–10 – as well as Jude 1:7, have been taken ...
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Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece was a significant aspect across the ancient Greek city-states, ranging from being a core part of military life to being an accepted practice of some individual soldiers. It was regarded as contribu ...


Lesbianism

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Lesbians in Francoist Spain Lesbians in Francoist Spain had to contend with a culture where a Fascism, fascist state met with a form of conservative Catholic Church, Roman Catholicism to impose very rigid, traditional gender roles. In the immediate post-Spanish Civil War, ...
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Lesbians in Nazi Germany In Nazi Germany, gay women who were sent to concentration camps were often categorized as "asocial", if they had not been otherwise targeted based on their ethnicity or political stances. Female homosexuality was criminalized in Austria, but not o ...
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Lesbians in the Spanish Second Republic Lesbians in the Second Spanish Republic and Civil War period were doubly discriminated against, as a result of their gender and sexual practices. Prior to the Second Spanish Republic, Second Republic, lesbians in Spain were largely ignored, eclip ...
* Lesbians in the Spanish democratic transition period * Lesbianism in Sri Lanka


Adoption, parenting, and same-sex marriage

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Same-sex adoption Same-sex adoption is the adoption of children or adults by same-sex couples. It may take the form of a joint adoption by the couple, or of the adoption by one partner of the other's biological child or adult ( stepchild adoption). Joint adopt ...
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Same-sex parenting Same-sex parenting is parenting of children by Same-sex relationship, same-sex couples generally consisting of Gay men, gay, lesbian, or bisexual people who are often in civil partnerships, domestic partnerships, civil unions, or same-sex marria ...
** LGBTQ adoption and parenting in Australia ** LGBTQ parenting in Canada **
Same-sex adoption in Brazil Same-sex adoption in Brazil is legal according to the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil, as stated in a court decision on April 27, 2010. The change was a milestone in the country's LGBT history. The ministers (Justices) underlined that neithe ...
** Same-sex adoption in Europe **
Same-sex adoption in the United Kingdom Same-sex couples in the United Kingdom (not including Scotland) have had the right to adopt since 2002, following the Adoption and Children Act 2002. Legalisation In the Adoption and Children Act 2002, Parliament provided that an application to ...
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Same-sex marriage Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal Legal sex and gender, sex. marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 38 countries, with a total population of 1.5 ...
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Same-sex marriage and Judaism Same-sex marriage in Judaism has been a subject of debate within Jewish denominations. The traditional view among Jews is to regard same-sex relationships as categorically forbidden by the Torah. This remains the current view of Orthodox Judaism. ...
** Same-sex marriage and the family


Same-sex marriage (SSM) by region

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Same-sex marriage in Andorra Same-sex marriage has been legal in Andorra since 17 February 2023. Andorra first established stable unions on 23 March 2005, providing same-sex couples with some of the rights and benefits of marriage, and later enacted civil unions on 25 Decemb ...
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Same-sex marriage in Argentina Same-sex marriage has been legal in Argentina since July 22, 2010. Bills to legalize same-sex marriage were introduced to the National Congress in 2009 by deputies from the Socialist and New Encounter parties. Following much discussion, a unif ...
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Same-sex marriage in Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten Same-sex marriage is legal in Aruba and Curaçao, two constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in accordance with a ruling from the Supreme Court of the Netherlands issued on 12 July 2024. On that date, the Supreme Court upheld a ...
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Same-sex marriage in Australia Same-sex marriage has been legal in Australia since 9 December 2017. Legislation permitting same-sex marriage, the '' Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017'', became law on 8 December 2017 and came into effect the nex ...
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Same-sex marriage in Austria Same-sex marriage has been legal in Austria since 1 January 2019. On 4 December 2017, the Constitutional Court ruled that the non-discrimination and equality provisions of the Constitution of Austria guarantee same-sex couples the right to marr ...
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Same-sex marriage in the Australian Capital Territory Same-sex marriage has been legal in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), and in the rest of Australia, since 9 December 2017 following passage in the Parliament of Australia, Parliament of the ''Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious F ...
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Same-sex marriage in Belgium Same-sex marriage has been legal in Belgium since 1 June 2003. A bill for the legalization of same-sex marriages was passed by the Senate on 28 November 2002, and by the Chamber of Representatives on 30 January 2003. King Albert II granted his ...
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Same-sex marriage in Brazil Same-sex marriage has been legal in Brazil since 16 May 2013, following a decision by the National Justice Council ordering notaries of every state to license and perform same-sex marriages. Before nationwide legalisation in May 2013, the state ...
** Same-sex marriage in Alagoas ** Same-sex marriage in Santa Catarina *
Same-sex marriage in Chile Same-sex marriage has been legal in Chile since 10 March 2022. The path to legalization began in June 2021 when President of Chile, President Sebastián Piñera announced his administration's intention to sponsor a bill for this cause. The Senate ...
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Same-sex marriage in Colombia Same-sex marriage has been legal in Colombia since 28 April 2016 in accordance with a 6–3 ruling from the Constitutional Court of Colombia, Constitutional Court that banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional under the Colombian Constituti ...
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Same-sex marriage in Costa Rica Same-sex marriage has been legal in Costa Rica since May 26, 2020 as a result of a ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice. Costa Rica was the first country in Central America to recognize and perform same-sex marriages, the third in North Amer ...
* Same-sex marriage in Cuba *
Same-sex marriage in Denmark Same-sex marriage has been legal in Denmark since 15 June 2012. A bill for the legalization of same-sex marriages was introduced by the Thorning-Schmidt I Cabinet, and approved 85–24 by the Folketing on 7 June 2012. It received royal assent b ...
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Same-sex marriage in the Faroe Islands Same-sex marriage has been legal in the Faroe Islands since 1 July 2017. Legislation allowing same-sex marriage and Same-sex adoption, adoption by same-sex couples was approved by the Løgting on 29 April 2016. The Parliament of Denmark, Danish P ...
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Same-sex marriage in Ecuador Same-sex marriage has been legal in Ecuador since 8 July 2019 in accordance with a Constitutional Court of Ecuador, Constitutional Court ruling issued on 12 June 2019 that the ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional under the Constitution ...
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Same-sex marriage in Estonia Same-sex marriage has been legal in Estonia since 1 January 2024. The government elected in the March 2023 election, led by Prime Minister Kaja Kallas and consisting of the Reform Party, the Social Democrats and Estonia 200, vowed to legalize sa ...
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Same-sex marriage in Finland Same-sex marriage has been legal in Finland since 1 March 2017. A bill for the legalisation of same-sex marriages was approved by the Finnish Parliament in a vote of 101–90 on 12 December 2014, and signed into law by President Sauli Niinistö ...
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Same-sex marriage in France Same-sex marriage has been legal in France since 18 May 2013, making France the Legal status of same-sex marriage, thirteenth country in the world and the ninth in Europe to allow same-sex couples to marry. The legislation applies to metropolita ...
* Same-sex marriage in Georgia *
Same-sex marriage in Germany Same-sex marriage has been legal in Germany since 1 October 2017. A bill for the legalisation of same-sex marriage passed the Bundestag on 30 June 2017 and the Bundesrat on 7 July. It was signed into law on 20 July by President Frank-Walter Ste ...
* Same-sex marriage in Greece *
Same-sex marriage in Greenland Same-sex marriage has been legal in Greenland since 1 April 2016. Same-sex marriage legislation passed the Inatsisartut unanimously on 26 May 2015. Approval by the Folketing followed on 19 January 2016, and the law received royal assent on 3 Febr ...
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Same-sex marriage in Iceland Same-sex marriage has been legal in Iceland since 27 June 2010. A bill providing for a gender-neutral marriage definition was passed 49–0 by the Althing on 11 June 2010. No members of Parliament voted against the bill, and polling suggested that ...
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Same-sex marriage in Liechtenstein Same-sex marriage has been legal in Liechtenstein since 1 January 2025. In November 2022, the Landtag passed a motion calling on the government to introduce a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, with broad support from across the political spectr ...
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Same-sex marriage in Luxembourg Same-sex marriage has been legal in Luxembourg since 1 January 2015. A bill for the legalisation of same-sex marriages was approved 56–4 by the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg), Chamber of Deputies on 18 June 2014 and signed into law by Henri, ...
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Same-sex marriage in Malta Same-sex marriage has been legal in Malta since 1 September 2017 following the 66–1 passage of legislation in the Parliament of Malta, Parliament on 12 July 2017. The bill was signed into law by President of Malta, President Marie-Louise Colei ...
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Same-sex marriage in Nepal Same-sex marriage has been provisionally recognised in Nepal since 24 April 2024, though same-sex couples are unable to access the rights and benefits of marriage. On 28 June 2023, Supreme Court Justice Til Prasad Shrestha directed the government ...
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Same-sex marriage in New Zealand Same-sex marriage has been legal in New Zealand since 19 August 2013. A Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Act 2013, bill for legalisation was passed by the New Zealand House of Representatives, House of Representatives on 17 April 20 ...
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Same-sex marriage in Norway Same-sex marriage has been legal in Norway since 1 January 2009 when a gender-neutral marriage law came into force after being passed by the Storting in June 2008. Norway was the first Scandinavian country, the fourth in Europe, and the sixth in ...
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Same-sex marriage in Portugal Same-sex marriage has been legal in Portugal since 5 June 2010. The XVIII Constitutional Government of Portugal under Prime Minister José Sócrates introduced a bill for legalization in December 2009. It was passed by the Assembly of the Repub ...
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Same-sex marriage in Slovenia Same-sex marriage has been legal in Slovenia since 9 July 2022, following a ruling by the Constitutional Court of Slovenia. The court had ruled that the ban on same-sex marriages violated the Constitution of Slovenia and gave the Parliament six m ...
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Same-sex marriage in South Africa Same-sex marriage has been legal in South Africa since the '' Civil Union Act, 2006'' came into force on 30 November 2006. The decision of the Constitutional Court in the case of '' Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie'' on 1 December 2005 extende ...
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Same-sex marriage in Spain Same-sex marriage has been legal in Spain since July 3, 2005. In 2004, the nation's newly elected First government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, government, led by Prime Minister of Spain, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of t ...
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Same-sex marriage in Sweden Same-sex marriage has been legal in Sweden since 1 May 2009 following the adoption of a gender-neutral marriage law by the Riksdag on 1 April 2009. Polling indicates that an overwhelming majority of Swedes support the legal recognition of same-se ...
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Same-sex marriage in Switzerland Same-sex marriage has been legal in Switzerland since 1 July 2022. Legislation to open marriage to same-sex couples passed the Swiss Parliament in December 2020. The law was challenged in a referendum on 26 September 2021 by opponents of same- ...
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Same-sex marriage in Taiwan Same-sex marriage has been legal in Taiwan since 24 May 2019, making it the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. On 24 May 2017, the Judicial Yuan, Constitutional Court ruled that the marriage law was unconstitutional, and that the ...
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Same-sex marriage in Thailand Same-sex marriage has been legal in Thailand since 23 January 2025. Same-sex marriage legislation supported by the government of Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and major opposition parties was introduced to the National Assembly in November 2 ...
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Same-sex marriage in Uruguay Same-sex marriage has been legal in Uruguay since August 5, 2013. A bill for legalization was passed by the Chamber of Representatives on December 12, 2012, in a vote of 81–6. The Senate approved it with some minor amendments on April 2, 2013 ...
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Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands Same-sex marriage has been legal in the Netherlands since 1 April 2001. A bill for the legalisation of same-sex marriage was passed in the House of Representatives by 109 votes to 33 on 12 September 2000 and by the Senate by 49 votes to 26 on 19 ...
** Same-sex marriage in Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba *
Same-sex marriage in the Republic of Ireland Same-sex marriage has been legal in Ireland since 16 November 2015. A referendum on 22 May 2015 amended the Constitution of Ireland to provide that marriage is recognised irrespective of the sex of the partners. The measure was signed into l ...


SSM in Canada

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Same-sex marriage in Canada Same-sex marriage was progressively introduced in several provinces and territories of Canada by court decisions beginning in 2003 before being legally recognized nationwide with the enactment of the ''Civil Marriage Act'' on July 20, 2005. On ...
** 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 *
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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) ***
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**** 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 *
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– 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
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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
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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 *
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* 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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