LGBT
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Attested since 1988. Used as a self-designation in United States gay rights activism since about 1990. [1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛl dʒiː biː tiː/
Noun
LGBT (countable and uncountable, plural LGBTs)
- Initialism of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transsexual (community).
- (chiefly in the plural) A member of the LGBT community.
Usage notes
- Sometimes, additional letters are added, such as 'Q' for queer or questioning, 'I' for intersex, and 'P' for pansexual, 'A' for asexual, etc.
- Sometimes, the order of the letters is switched to GLBT.
- When speaking only of sexuality and not of gender, the abbreviation LGB or GLB may be used.[2]
- The word queer is often used as an alternative shorthand for all gender-non-conforming behavior, including homosexuality and bisexuality, but this is controversial; see the notes there.
Translations
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transexual
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Adjective
LGBT
- Being or pertaining to (members of) the LGBT community.
- 2010, Geoffrey Nelson, Isaac Prilleltensky, Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-Being (→ISBN):
- This differential treatment in both the community of culture and mainstream white LGBT community may lead some LGBT people of colour to experience varying degrees of visibility and invisibility within these communities, and their identity as a LGBT person may change depending on the cultural context.
- 2010, Geoffrey Nelson, Isaac Prilleltensky, Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-Being (→ISBN):
Hyponyms
References
- American Educational Research Association Verlag AERA (1988), “Research, policy and practice: Annual meeting”, in (Please provide the title of the work)
- Katherine Cox, Sexual Orientation, in Death, Dying, and Social Differences (edited by David Oliviere, Barbara Monroe, Sheila Payne, published in 2011), page 197:
Trans communities
Although the umbrella term LGBT makes pragmatic sense, there are compelling arguments to treat transgendered people as distinct from LGB communities: gender identity is clearly distinct from sexual identity (Dean et al., 2000) and to conflate the two risks ignoring the particular experiences of this ["trans"] group which is itself heterogeneous, comprising intersex individuals, androgynes, transvestites, and a whole range of others. Transgendered people […] can experience trans-phobia within LGB services and communities[.]
Danish
Noun
LGBT
- LGBT
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