LGBTIQ+ health refers to the physil, mental, and emotnal well-beg of people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex or queer (LGBTIQ+). The pl sign reprents the vast diversy of people terms of sexual orientatn, genr inty, exprsn and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). The LGBTIQ+ acronym is dynamic and n vary pendg on the regn or untry, highlightg the multu of LGBTIQ+ muni across cultur. While regnizg the diversy of LGBTIQ+ people, evince suggts some mon experienc affectg their health and well-beg. They are ls likely to accs health servic and engage wh healthre workers due to stigma and discrimatn, rultg adverse physil and mental health out. They n also experience human rights vlatns cludg vlence, torture, crimalizatn, voluntary medil procr and discrimatn. In addn, they n face nial of re, discrimatory attus and appropriate pathologizg healthre settgs based on their SOGIESC. WHO's support to untri is found on the fundamental human rights prciple that all persons should have accs to health servic whout discrimatn. The adoptn of the 2030 Agenda for Staable Development and s pledge to “leave no one behd”, based on the normative amework of ternatnal human rights law, has rerced the need to unrstand and improve the health and well-beg of LGBTIQ+ people. WHO velops guil, provis technil support and nducts rearch to help untri velop and strengthen clive health systems and polici for the health and well-beg of all people, regardls of SOGIESC.
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LGBT fn, pertag llectively to people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr: the LGBT muny. See more." name="scriptn * lgbt friendly definition *
LGBTQIA+ stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (or sometim qutng), tersex, asexual, and others. L (Lbian): A lbian is a woman/woman-aligned person who is attracted to only people of the same/siar genr.G (Gay): Gay is ually a term ed to refer to men/men-aligned dividuals who are only attracted to people of the same/siar genr. However, lbians n also be referred to as gay.
The e of the term gay beme more popular durg the 1970s. Today, bisexual and pansexual people sometim e gay to sually refer to themselv when they talk about their siar genr attractn.B (Bisexual): Bisexual dit an attractn to all genrs. The regnn of bisexual dividuals is important, sce there have been perds when people who intify as bi have been misunrstood as beg gay.
What do the abbreviatn LGBT stand for? Meang: lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr. * lgbt friendly definition *
Other acronym variatns that are sometim ed clu LGBTIQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, and queer) and LGBTQQIP2SAA (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, tersex, pansexual, two-spir (2S), androgyno, and asexual). Where a variety of orientatns and inti had prevly been referred to as "the gay muny" and later "the gay and lbian muny," the acronym eventually evolved as a way to be more clive of other inti. “Coverage of LGBTQ issu has moved beyond simplistic polil dichotomi and toward more fully realized reprentatns, not only of the diversy of the LGBTQ muny, but also of LGBTQ people’s liv, their fai, and their fundamental cln the fabric of Amerin society,” explas GLAAD, or the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn.
For example, you wouldn’t say “Ali is LGBTQIA+”—you’d say “Ali is gay.”. Even more clive variatns exist, such as LGBTQI2S (which reprents lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, qutng, queer, tersex, and Two-Spir). If you are terted learng more about what terms and phras should be avoid, GLAAD, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, has a reference page that offers helpful rmatn on LGBTQ terms as well as rmatn on terms that are specific to the transgenr muny.
Rearch suggts that while attus have shifted towards greater acceptance, LGBTQ+ people still face nsirable homophobia and discrimatn. But the term n sometim seem to imply that there is a sgle, homogeno group when there are actually many dividual muni ma up of diverse dividuals.
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Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN).
Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny.