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WHAT DO BBC STAND FOR GAY DATG
L - lbian: a woman who is attracted to other womenG - gay: a man who is attracted to other men or broadly people who intify as homosexualB - bisexual: a person who is attracted to both men and womenT - transgenr: a person whose genr inty is different om the sex the doctor put down on their birth certifiteQ - queer: origally ed as a hate term, some people want to reclaim the word, while others fd offensive. Male v female, homosexual v straight) or that they don't want to label themselv only by their sexual activyQ - qutng: a person who is still explorg their sexualy or genr intyI - tersex: a person whose body is not fively male or female.
WHAT DO BBC STAND FOR GAY DATG
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.
G: Gay. Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”? While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.
As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn.