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This page lists common initialisms relating to LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) people and the LGBTQ community.

Key

Variants of LGBTQ

* 2SLGBTQI+
* GBT or GBTQ – variant omitting "lesbian", typically when referring only to men.
* GLBT – Commonly used instead until the 1980s. The L was placed first in honor of lesbians who provided care and donated blood during the AIDS Crisis, and LGBT became the dominant spelling.
* HBTQ – homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer. More common in Swedish.
* ITNB+ – intersex, trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming. More common in Portugal.
* LBT or LBTQ, – variant omitting "gay", typically when referring only to women.
* LGB or GLB – lesbian, gay, and bisexual. In the 21st century, the term became associated with anti-trans groups such as LGB Alliance and #DropTheT.
* LGBPA+
* LGBQ
* LGBT
* LGBT+
* LGBTA
* LGBTH, with H for HIV+
* LGBTI
* LGBTIH, with H for hijra
* LGBTQI, LGBTIQ, LGBTQI+, or LGBTIQ+
* LGBTQIA or LGBTQIA+
* LGBTQIAP+, with P for pansexuality or panromantic
* LGBTQIAPD+, with D for demisexual and demiromantic
* LGBTQIAPK+, with K for kink
* LGBTQIAPN+, with N for non-binary
* , acronym for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, flexual, asexual, genderfuck, polyamorous, bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadism/masochism". Coined by queer students at Wesleyan University in the early 2000s.
* LGBTTT or LGBTTTIQ, with TTT standing for transgender, transvestite (or travesti), and transsexual.
* LGT, GLT, or GLTT – referring only to monosexual and monoromantic identities. More common in Brazil around the middle of 1990s.
* LGTB or GLTB – more common in Spanish.
* QUILTBAG, with U standing for undefined, unlabeled, or unsure
* TQI+, QTI+, or QIT+, meaning queer, trans, or intersex, and other groups.

Alternatives to LGBTQ

* GSRD, GSD – gender and sexual (and romantic) diversity
* SGM, GSM, GSRM – gender and sexual (and romantic) minority
* SGMY – sexual and gender minority youth.
* MOGAI or MOGII – marginalized orientations, gender alignments and intersex
* SOGI – sexual orientation and gender identity.
* MVPFAFF – , Vakasalewa, , Fa'afafine, , Fakaleitī (Leiti), and Fakafifine (identities in the Pacific Islander community)
*SOGIE – sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.
* – sexual orientation, gender identity and (gender) expression, and sex characteristics.
*SSOGIE – sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

Same gender attraction

* MLM / WLW – men loving men / women loving women (or non-binary people), regardless of sexual or romantic orientation as gay, bi, pan, etc...
* MSM / WSW – men who have sex with men / women who have sex with women. Used primarily in public health as a behavioral category distinct from sexual orientation.
* NBLNB – non-binary loving non-binary.
* SGA, SSA – same-gender attraction, same-sex attraction
* SGL – same-gender loving. This term is used by some in the Black community to avoid identity terms considered Eurocentric.

Sex and gender

* AFAB – assigned female at birth
*AGAB/ASAB – assigned gender at birth / assigned sex at birth.
*AMAB – assigned male at birth
*DSD – disorders of sex development (or differences in sex development). Describes intersex variations. The former is considered pathologizing by some intersex people.
* FLINTA* – German acronym of (women), (lesbian), (intersex), (non-binary), transgender and agender.
* FTM/MTF – female-to-male or male-to-female respectively. Considered outdated; trans man and trans woman are preferred.
* FFS – facial feminization surgery
*GAC – gender-affirming care; the medical aspect of gender transition
*GAHT – gender-affirming hormone therapy
*GNC – gender non-conforming
* NB (sometimes spelled "enby") – non-binary. Occasionally confused for "non-Black" (also abbreviated NB).
* PGP – preferred gender pronouns. Sometimes proscribed in favor of just "pronouns", to avoid implying that one's pronouns are just a preference, or that they necessarily indicate one's gender.
* PTP – person with a transgender parent
* SOGIESC – initialism for Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity/ Expression, and Sex Characteristics.
* T4T – trans for trans; transgender people primarily or exclusively seeking relationships with other transgender people.
* TGD – transgender and gender diverse
* TGE – transgender and gender expansive
* TGI – transgender, gender diverse, and intersex. The term is also inclusive of people who identify as transsexual.
* TGNC – trans and gender nonconforming
*VSC – variations in sex characteristics. An alternative term for intersex variations.
* XtX, XtF, XtM, FtX, MtX, FtF, or MtM, alternative terms that are used in place of FtM or MtF

Others

* GSA – gay-straight alliance, or genders and sexualities alliance.
* GLA – gay and lesbian alliance
* GLOW – "gay, lesbian, or whatever"
* QPR – queerplatonic relationship; committed intimate partnerships which are non-romantic
*QPOC – queer people of color.
*QSA, meaning queer-straight alliance.
* QTPOC/QTIPOC, standing for queer and trans people of color or queer, trans, and intersex people of color.
*QTWOC, standing for queer and trans women of color.

See also

* Lists of acronyms
* LGBT slang

Notes

References

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