Outline of LGBTQ topics

The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBTQ rights movement and an icon of LGBTQ culture, is adorned with rainbow pride flags.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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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