What is the difference between gay and transgender
List of LGBTQ+ terms
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Abro (sexual and romantic)
A word used to portray people who have a fluid sexual and/or amorous orientation which changes over time, or the course of their life. They may use different terms to describe themselves over time.
Ace
An umbrella term used specifically to describe a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of sexual attraction. This encompasses asexual people as well as those who identify as demisexual and grey-sexual. Ace people who experience love-related attraction or occasional sexual attraction might also exploit terms such as lgbtq+, bi, lesbian, straight and queer in conjunction with asexual to describe the direction of their lovey-dovey or sexual attraction.
Ace and aro/ace and aro spectrum
Umbrella terms used to depict the wide group of people who experience a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of affectionate and/or sexual attraction, including a lack of attraction. People who identify under these umbrella terms may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms, including, but not limited to, asexual, ace, aromantic, aro, demi, grey, and abro. People may also use terms such as gay,
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Definitions
Sexual orientation
An characteristic or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people. Note: an individual’s sexual orientation is independent of their gender identity.
Gender identity
One's innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they dial themselves. One's gender identity can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth.
Gender expression
External appearance of one's gender identity, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, body characteristics or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with organism either masculine or feminine.
Transgender
An umbrella phrase for people whose gender identity and/or expression is diverse from cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth. Being transgender does not imply any specific sexual orientation. Therefore, transgender people may identify as straight, gay, homosexual woman, bisexual, etc.
Gender transition
The process by which some people aspire to more closely
Glossary of Terms
Many Americans refrain from talking about sexual orientation and gender identity or expression because it feels taboo, or because they’re afraid of saying the wrong thing.
This glossary was written to help provide people the words and meanings to help make conversations easier and more comfortable. LGBTQ+ people use a variety of terms to identify themselves, not all of which are included in this glossary. Always listen for and respect a person’s self identified terminology.
Ally | A legal title used to describe someone who is actively supportive of Gay people. It encompasses straight and cisgender allies, as well as those within the LGBTQ+ group who support each other (e.g., a lesbian who is an ally to the bisexual community).
Asexual | Often called “ace” for short, asexual refers to a complete or partial lack of sexual attraction or lack of interest in sexual activity with others. Asexuality exists on a spectrum, and asexual people may experience no, little or conditional sexual attraction.
Biphobia | The dread and hatred of, or discomfort with, people who love and are sexually attracted to more than one gender.
Bisexual | Nope! It’s easy to fetch this confused, particularly because T is included in the LGBTQ+ acronym (T standing for “Transgender”). The key is to remember that transgender is referring to someone’s gender identity and not their sexuality orientation. Transgender people can be gay, unbent, pansexual, queer, asexual, or any other sexual orientation (just like cisgender people!). Our Foundational Curriculum is a designed to create a Reliable Zone 101 overview workshop. We propose this workshop for all audiences – gay, straight, homosexual, allied, and anywhere in between (or outside) those categories. While some of it may be old information for some, we feel that everyone, no matter their truth level, will acquire something out of the experience. We perform have exercises that can be used for more advanced/specific workshops. Just inspect out the investigate activities tab and search under the “201” levels for more advanced activities! Yes! One of our goals for this proposal is to change it into the go-to resou
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