Outline of LGBTQ topics

The following outline offers an overview and guide to LGBTQ topics:

LGBTQ is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer".^[4] It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual, non-heteroromantic, or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.

Sexuality

Identity

Queer
Questioning
Sexual orientation identities
- Non-heterosexual
  - LGBTQ psychology
  - Heteroflexible
  - Homosexual
    - Lesbian
    - Gay
    - Gay men
  - Bisexual
  - Pansexual
  - Bi-curious
  - Asexual
Romantic orientation
- Aromantic
Gender identity
- Man
- Woman
- Non-binary
- Third gender
  - Androgynos
  - Akava'ine
  - Apwint
  - Bakla
  - Bugis genders
  - Chibados
  - Enaree
  - Eunuch
  - Fa'afafine
  - Fakaleitī
  - Femminiello
  - Galli
  - Güevedoce
  - Hijra
  - Kathoey
  - Khanith
  - Köçek
  - Koekchuch
  - Lhamana
  - Māhū
  - Mak nyah
  - Mukhannathun
  - Muxe
  - Nádleehi
  - Nullo
  - Rae-rae
  - Sipiniq
  - Sworn virgin
  - Takatāpui
  - Travesti
  - Tumtum
  - Two-spirit
  - Winkte
Gender

Sex and physiology

Romance

Expression

Practices

Society

Language

Culture

LGBTQ culture
LGBTQ community
LGBTQ movements
LGBTQ symbols
Gay bar
Lesbian bar
Gay Games
Gay icons
LGBTQ+ media
- Print:
- The Gay News-Telegraph
- Gay News
- Queer Zine Archive Project
- Moving Image:
- Gay News and Views
- New Queer Cinema
- Gay pornography
- Lesbian erotica
- GayVN Awards
Gay pride
- Black gay pride
- WorldPride
Gay village
Gaydar
Queer art
LGBT music
Queer nationalism
Pinkwashing (LGBT)

History

LGBTQ history

Religion

Rights

Bibliography

Lists

Anti-LGBTQ topics

AIDS stigma – prejudice against people with HIV+ and AIDS
Amatonormativity – is the set of societal assumptions that everyone prospers with an exclusive romantic relationship
Anti-homosexual attitudes – societal attitudes against homosexuality
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric – themes, catchphrases, and slogans which have been used to condemn homosexuality or to demean homosexuals
- Homophobic propaganda – propaganda based on negative and homophobia towards homosexual, putatively homosexual and sometimes other non-heterosexual or non-cisgender people
Cairo 52 – in Egypt, fifty-two men charged with "habitual practice of debauchery" and "obscene behaviour" under Article 9c of Law No. 10 of 1961
Cissexism – bias in favor of people who identify with the gender assigned to them at birth
- Transphobia – antipathy toward transgender people
- Anti-gender movement – movement which seeks to discredit gender in favor of assigned sex
- TERF – acronym for Trans-exclusionary radical feminism
- Transmisogyny – antipathy toward trans women
- Trans panic defense – a legal strategy in which a defendant claims they acted in a state of violent, temporary insanity
Contact hypothesis – showing that contact with LGBT+ people mitigate dislike
Discrimination against gay men
Discrimination against non-binary gender people
Ego-dystonic sexual orientation – mental disorder of having a sexual orientation or an attraction that is at odds with one's idealized self-image
Ex-gay movement – people who once identified as homosexual or bisexual, but who no longer assert that identity
Heteronormativity – lifestyle norms that holds that people fall into distinct and complementary genders with natural roles in life
Heterosexism – attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of heterosexuality or heterosexual people
- Homophobia – antipathy toward homosexual people
- Lesbophobia – antipathy toward lesbians
- Biphobia – antipathy toward bisexual people
- Acephobia – antipathy toward asexual people
- Arophobia - antipathy toward aromantic people.
Queer erasure – tendency to intentionally or unintentionally remove LGBTQ groups or people from record, or downplay their significance
- Conversion therapy – pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation
- Lesbian erasure
- Bisexual erasure
- Straightwashing – portraying LGB or otherwise queer characters in fiction as heterosexual
- Capital punishment for homosexuality
- Gay gang murders – a series of suspected anti-LGBT hate crimes perpetrated by large gangs of youths in Sydney, between 1970 and 2010
- Anti-gay purges in Chechnya – forced disappearances, secret abductions, imprisonment, torture and extrajudicial killing by authorities targeting persons based on their perceived sexual orientation
LGBT rights opposition – opposition to legal rights for LGBT people
- LGBT-free zone
LGBT stereotypes
Violence against LGBT people – violence motivated by sexuality or gender identity
- Gay bashing – verbal or physical abuse against a person who is perceived by the aggressor to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual
- Trans bashing – the act of victimizing a person physically, sexually, or verbally because they are transgender or transsexual
- Gay panic defense – a legal defence for assault or homicide alleging a sexual advance by the victim against the assailant

References

^ Julia Goicichea (August 16, 2017). "Why New York City Is a Major Destination for LGBT Travelers". The Culture Trip. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
^ Eli Rosenberg (June 24, 2016). "Stonewall Inn Named National Monument, a First for the Gay Rights Movement". The New York Times. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
^ "Workforce Diversity The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562". National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
^ "Definition of LGBT". Collins Dictionary. Retrieved September 4, 2024.

[GayGreenwichVillage1-1] Julia Goicichea (August 16, 2017). "Why New York City Is a Major Destination for LGBT Travelers". The Culture Trip. Retrieved February 2, 2019.

[GayGreenwichVillage2-2] Eli Rosenberg (June 24, 2016). "Stonewall Inn Named National Monument, a First for the Gay Rights Movement". The New York Times. Retrieved June 25, 2016.

[GayGreenwichVillage3-3] "Workforce Diversity The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562". National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved April 21, 2016.

[4] "Definition of LGBT". Collins Dictionary. Retrieved September 4, 2024.

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