Pansexuality, or omnisexuality, is sexual attraction, romantic love, or emotional attraction toward people of any sex or gender identity. Intersex is a variation in sex characteristics, including chromosomes that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified as male or female.Īsexuality (or non-sexuality) is the lack of sexual attraction to anyone.Īn Ally is a person who considers herself, himself as a friend to the LGBT community. The questioning(unsure) of one’s gender, sexual identity, sexual orientation, or all three. However, some LGBTQIA people still find the term offensive. But, beginning in the late-80s, LGBTIQ activists began to reclaim the word. Queer was originally used as an insult against the LGBT community. Queer is sometimes used as an umbrella term for the LGBT community, or people that are not heterosexual or cisgender (Cisgender people are people whose gender identity and expression match the sex they were assigned at birth.). Transgender people have a gender identity/expression that differs from the sex that they were assigned at birth. It means a man is sexually/romantically attracted to men.Ī bi is sexually/romantically attracted to both women and men. It means a woman is sexually/romantically attracted to women.Ī gay is a homosexual man. What does LGBT/LGBTQ+/LGBTQIA+/LGBTTTQQIAA+ mean? LetterĪ lesbian is a homosexual woman.
