Outline of LGBTQ topics explained
The following outline offers an overview and guide to LGBTQ topics:
LGBTQ is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer".[1] 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
- Bisexual
- Pansexual
- Bi-curious
- Asexual
- Romantic orientation
- Gender identity
- Man
- Woman
- Non-binary
- Third gender
- Gender
Sex and physiology
Romance
Expression
Practices
Society
Language
Culture
History
Religion
Rights
Bibliography
Lists
- Lists of LGBTQ people
- Fictional characters
- LGBTQ-related films
- LGBT characters in comics
- LGBT-related webcomics
- List of gay characters in anime
- List of yaoi anime and manga
- Lists of LGBTQ figures in fiction and myth
- List of LGBTQ-related awards
- LGBT community centers
- LGBTQ events
- LGBTQ holidays
- List of LGBTQ periodicals
- Years in LGBT rights
- List of LGBT rights articles by region
- Healthcare and the LGBTQ community
- List of LGBT-related organizations and conferences
- List of LGBTQ rights organizations
- List of LGBT organizations that affiliate with political parties
- List of LGBT medical organizations
- List of bisexuality-related organizations
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-LGBTQ hate groups
- Anti-homosexual attitudes – societal attitudes against homosexuality
- Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric – themes, catchphrases, and slogans which have been used to condemn or demean LGBTQ+ people
- Homophobic propaganda – propaganda based on negative and homophobia towards homosexual, putatively homosexual and sometimes other non-heterosexual or non-cisgender people
- LGBTQ grooming conspiracy theory - far-right conspiracy theory that those in the LGBTQ community and allies are either grooming children or enabling grooming
- Rapid-onset gender dysphoria - the scientifically unsupported hypothesis that adolescents identity as transgender or experience gender dysphoria due to social contagion.
- 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
- Trans-exclusionary radical feminism or Gender-critical feminism, anti-trans movement
- 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 LGBTQ people
- Discrimination against intersex people
- Discrimination against lesbians Discrimination against non-binary gender people
- Drag panic - a moral panic that drag is harmful to minors
- 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.
- Intersex medical intervention human rights issues
- 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
- Censorship of LGBTQ issues
- Anti-LGBTQ curriculum laws in the U.S. - laws limiting the inclusion of LGBTQ subjects in public schools.
- Book bans due to LGBTQ content in the U.S.
- Intersex erasure
- 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 stereotypes
- Violence against LGBT people – violence motivated by sexuality or gender identity
- Corrective rape - rape motivated against the victim's perceived sexual orientation or gender non-conformity; it is often intended make the victim heterosexual
- 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
See also
- List of suicides of LGBT people
- Outline of transgender topics
- Bibliography of works on the United States military and LGBT+ topics
- Gay-friendly
- Healthcare and the LGBT community
- Hermaphrodite
- Homosexuality and psychology
- LGBT youth vulnerability
- LGBTQ psychology
- Mental disorders and gender
- Sex and gender in suicide
- Sexual orientation and suicide
- Suicide among LGBT youth
- Transgender youth
- Neuroqueer theory
Notes and References
- Web site: Definition of LGBT . September 4, 2024 . Collins Dictionary.
