- LGBTQ community - Wikipedia
LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay – when referring to the community as a whole – beginning in various forms largely in the early 1990s [5][citation needed] Terms, such as LGBTQ, are needed to foster inclusiveness for people
- LGBTQ Community | Definition, Meaning, Flag | Britannica
The LGBTQ community is a group of persons in any country, region, or other locality who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer Members of the LGBTQ community feel some degree of empathy and solidarity with each other based on their shared experience and knowledge of anti-LGBTQ prejudice, discrimination, and disrespect
- A brief history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements
As of 2016, LGBT identification and activism was still punishable by death in 10 countries: Iran, Iraq, Mauritania, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, and Yemen; the plight of the LGBT community in Russia received intense focus during the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, to which President Obama sent a contingent of out LGBT athletes
- Worldwide LGBTQIA+ Population | GAYTHER LGBTQIA
An estimated 214 3 million LGBTQIA+ individuals living in countries worldwide Discover all of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and all groups with non-traditional gender and sexual identities, collectively known as the LGBTQIA+ community, living in countries, sub-regions and continents across the globe With no official world census, estimates relating to the community’s population
- CenterLink the Community of LGBTQ Centers - for lesbian, gay, bisexual . . .
CenterLink is the national association of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community centers CenterLink serves over 200 LGBT community centers across the country and the world
- LGBT Rights | Human Rights Watch
LGBT Rights People around the world face violence and inequality—and sometimes torture, even execution—because of who they love, how they look, or who they are
- Defining LGBTQ+ - The Center
Do not confuse having an intersex trait with being transgender Intersex people are assigned a sex at birth — either male or female — and that decision by medical providers and parents may not match the gender identity of the child Not all intersex folks identify as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community
- From LGBT to LGBTQIA+: The evolving recognition of identity
October is LGBT History Month Or, as some might say, LGBTQ History Month Or even LGBTQIA+ History Month The terms for the community of people that encompasses people who are lesbian, gay
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