Defns | The Office of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Intersex Life | Vanrbilt Universy

Contents:

• LGBTQIA+ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR,QUEER/QUTNG, INTERSEX, ALLY/ASEXUAL +) STUDI: HOME
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
• GAY-STRAIGHT/GENRS & SEXUALI ALLIANC
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS
• AM I GAY?
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
• THE AVAILABILY AND TYPE OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER NTENT ON SPERM, OOCYTE, AND EMBRYO PROVIR WEBS

LGBTQIA+ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR,QUEER/QUTNG, INTERSEX, ALLY/ASEXUAL +) STUDI: HOME

Sexual orientatn refers to the endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or other genrs, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and straight orientatns. As GLAAD not, "Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay, bisexual or queer.

A person who transns om female to male and is attracted solely to men would typilly intify as a gay man. Some lbians may prefer to intify as gay or as gay women. GAY.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE

Sexual orientatns clu gay, lbian, straight, bisexual, and asexual. This means that beg transgenr (feelg like your assigned sex is very different om the genr you intify wh) isn’t the same thg as beg gay, lbian, or bisexual. People who’re attracted to people of the same genr often ll themselv gay or homosexual.

Gay women may prefer the term lbian. Many asexual people feel romantilly attracted to people — so they may intify as asexual, and also as gay, lbian, bisexual, or straight. (See Answers to Your Qutns: For a Better Unrstandg of Sexual Orientatn and Homosexualy for more rmatn on sexual orientatn.

Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay, bisexual, or asexual, jt as nontransgenr people n be. For example, a transgenr woman, or a person who is assigned male at birth and transns to female, who is attracted to other women would be intified as a lbian or gay woman.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Likewise, a transgenr man, or a person who is assigned female at birth and transns to male, who is attracted to other men would be intified as a gay man. The Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force released a report 2011 entled Injtice at Every Turn, which nfirmed the pervasive and severe discrimatn faced by transgenr people.

Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) Transgenr Network (TNET).

Answers to qutns: For a better unrstandg of sexual orientatn and homosexualy. Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force.

GAY-STRAIGHT/GENRS & SEXUALI ALLIANC

(SOUNDBITE OF SUPER BOWL LI TELECAST)LADY GAGA: (Sgg) No matter gay, straight or bi, lbian, transgenr life - I'm on the right track, baby. He was bullied for beg gay before he really unrstood what that meant.

But Tracy Young, a celebry DJ who plays at gay parti and Pri events around the untry, says that's not the only reason people still love the YOUNG: I thk she h Young, a lbian, says anyone who has stggled to e to terms wh their sexual inty rponds to those lyrics - born this way.

I was born this Even though Elton John hailed "Born This Way" as the new gay anthem when first me out, there was also a backlash agast . " She was even acced of explog her gay fan base, a charge mic wrer John Savage SAVAGE: Obvly, Lady Gaga wanted to say somethg about her gay dience and what she thought about the posn of gay people.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER (LGBTQ) TEENS

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I WAS BORN THIS WAY")VALENTINO: (Sgg) Jt bee I'm happy - happy - I'm reee - reee - and I'm gay - gay - y, I'm gay, a't a flt. (SOUNDBITE OF RADIO SHOW, "THE HOWARD STERN SHOW")LADY GAGA: There's a preacher, Carl Bean, Los Angel, and I believe he's gay. He says he had always known that he was gay, so felt like a perfect I always say the lyric found me, and was very Bean, now a retired pastor, was the founr of Uny Fellowship Church.

He mistered to gays and lbians and was an activist durg the AIDS crisis.

AM I GAY?

No As much as "Born This Way" has been embraced as a gay anthem, Tim Cox says 's also an anthem for anyone who feels outsi the mastream. People are often nfed by the terms lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and the related acronym LGBTQIA+. LGBTQIA+: The first four letters of this standard abbreviatn are “Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr.

Some lbians may prefer to intify as gay (adj.

) or as gay women. Avoid intifyg lbians as “homosexuals, ” a rogatory term (see Offensive Terms to Avoid). Gay: The adjective ed to scribe people whose endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractns are to people of the same sex (e.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

G., gay man, gay people). Avoid intifyg gay people as “homosexuals, ” an outdated term nsired rogatory and offensive to many lbian and gay people. Queer: Once nsired a meang slur for beg gay, “queer” is beg reclaimed by some as a self-affirmg umbrella term, pecially among those who nsir other labels rtrictive.

Some still believe ’s a homophobic slur, so should be avoid unls quotg or scribg someone who self-intifi that way.

GAY: Used some cultural settgs to reprent men who are attracted to men a romantic, erotic and/or emotnal sense. Not all men who engage same-genr sexual behavr intify as gay, and as such this label should be ed wh utn.

THE AVAILABILY AND TYPE OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER NTENT ON SPERM, OOCYTE, AND EMBRYO PROVIR WEBS

LGBTQ2S+ ALLY: Someone who nonts heterosexism, anti- LGBTQ2S+ bias, heterosexual and cisgenr privilege themselv and others; believ that heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia are social jtice issu. We Are Fay Lbian, Gay and Bisexual Glossary of Terms.

Genrqueer, genr non-nformg, non-bary, and genrfluid people may or may not intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer.