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

Myth: Bisexual people are nfed or pervasive misunrstandg about bisexualy is that ’s a phase — and that bisexual people will eventually e out as gay or lbian. One study found that only 18% of LGBTQ youth who ially me out as bisexual later me out as gay or lbian. So while some may e out as bisexual first before intifyg as gay or lbian, this don’t mean that bisexual inti aren’t valid.

In one study, only 12% of bisexual men said they were openly bisexual, pared to 28% of all bisexuals and 77% of gay men. Not bee they are bad, or homophobic, or transphobic… but bee the reali are not their own lived experience, or bee workg alongsi the groups may be a newer experience for them.

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

E., bisexual, gay, straight. 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.

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. A bisexual is th a person wh both heterosexual and homosexual sir. As the tolerance of homosexual behavur creased many societi the late 20th century, the number of people intifyg themselv as bisexual also article was most recently revised and updated by Alison Eldridge.

LGBTQ: The first four letters of this standard abbreviatn are fairly straightforward: “Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr. 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.

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