Outline of LGBT topics explained
The following outline offers an overview and guide to LGBT topics:
LGBT is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".[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
- 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
Anti-LGBT 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-LGBT 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
- LGBT erasure – tendency to intentionally or unintentionally remove LGBT groups or people from record, or downplay their significance
- LGBT rights opposition – opposition to legal rights for LGBT people
- 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
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Definition of LGBT . March 3, 2024 . Collins Dictionary.