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LGBTQ
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning persons as a group
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“...Trans persons should have the right to access legal and safe healthcare which includes medical procedures, surgeries, and hormones without discrimination. Folks who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and two-spirit should not be forced into conversion therapy and should have the right to engage in sexual relationships without violations towards their bodily autonomy....”
“We will defend all our rights – civil rights, human rights and voting rights… women's rights and workers' rights… LGBT rights and the rights of people with disabilities!”
“Queer people exist. Choosing not to accept them is not an option.”
“Gay? I know. This was back when I was figuring things out. Turns out human sexuality is less of a straight line, and more of a Cirque do Soleil show. Long, confusing, and full of sexy clowns.”
“At the 2008 Lambda Literary Awards (the awards the LGBT community gives to books ignored by straight book awards) not a single lesbian book nominated for best novel was published by a mainstream press. Our literature is disappearing at the same time we are being told we are winning our rights. How can we be equal citizens if our stories are not allowed to be part of our nation's story?”
“The reality is that LGBTQ+ people face challenges at disproportionally higher rates than their straight counterparts - drug use, sex work, and financial instability can be an unfortunate result. My privilege as a young cis white man whose parents weren't going to let me drown afforded me the ability to make those mistakes and live to talk about it.”
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Not who you're looking for? Others named LGBTQ: umbrella term for the LGBTQ community
Sexual and gender minorities (SGM) comprise individuals whose sexual identity, sexual orientation, sexual behavior, or gender identity differ from the majority of the surrounding society. Sexual minorities include homosexual, bisexual, asexual, and other non-heterosexual people, Gender minorities include transgender and non-binary people. Gender, sexual and romantic minorities (GSRM) includes individuals of a minority romantic orientation such as aromanticism. Sexual and gender minorities is a synonym for LGBTQ people. In 2015, the United States National Institutes of Health described SGM as an "umbrella term that encompasses populations included in the acronym "LGBTI", and those whose sexual orientation or gender identity varies. It includes those who may not self-identify as any of the immediate letters of LGBTI, or those who have a specific medical condition affecting reproductive development ."
