gay lifestyle

This phrase tends to be only used by individuals who are outside of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community and either do not support LGB individuals, are not appropriately educated about LGB individuals and their concerns, or do not realize its negative effects. To describe a person’s sexual identity as a lifestyle is inappropriate because it reduces LGB people down to this one aspect of who they are as people. In addition, this phrase does not make space for the diversity that exists among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals and how LGB individuals may live their lives very differently from one another, just like heterosexuals.

Person A: The gay lifestyle is so weird!
Person B: You mean sleeping, waking up, making coffee and going to work?

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LGBTQ

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trangender, Queer and/or Questioning

The LGBTQ group on campus meets at 6pm to discuss issues that pertain to our community.

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LGBTQA

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Asexual and/or (Straight) Ally

I'm an LGBTQ Ally.

Our group is about LGBTQA issues, so I think we should talk about gender identity too, not just sexual orientation.

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Pansexual

This term is a sexual orientation. Some individuals who identify as having this sexual orientation may believe that they are gender-blind, while others are more in-tune to gender variety which may include appreciating and enjoying transgender, intersex, and genderqueer individuals as well as the different degrees of masculinities and femininities a person may possess, whether they are cisgender (non-transgender) or transgender. Someone who has this sexual orientation has the potential to be attracted to, date, and fall in love with an individual without gender, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation or these varying degrees of femininity and masculinity being a limiting factor. Some individuals take their identity of pansexual further than the romantic and/or sexual attraction that is typically associated with sexual orientation and include race, ethnicity, religion etc. as demographics that will not prevent them from being attracted to, date or fall in love with a particular person.

Person A: Oh my gosh, I don't know if that person is male or female, but they are so fucking hot!

(Heterosexual) Person B: Damn, you are so pansexual! I could NEVER be attracted to someone if I didn't KNOW they were of the opposite sex!

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