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LGBTQIA Resource Center Glossary
GLOSSARY
The terms and definitions below are always evolving, transforming and often mean unlike things to different people. They are provided below as a starting signal for discussion and kind. This Glossary has been collectively built and created by the staff members of the LGBTQIA Resource Center since the first 2000s.
These are not universal definitions. This glossary is provided to help donate others a more thorough but not entirely comprehensive understanding of the significance of these terms. You may even consider asking someone what they imply when they use a term, especially when they use it to explain their identity. Ultimately it is most important that each individual define themselves for themselves and therefore also define a designation for themselves.
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.” -Audre Lorde
This glossary contains terms, such as ableism and disability, that may not be considered directly related to identities of sexuality or gender. These terms are crucial to acknowledge as part of our mission to challenge all forms of oppress
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List of Diverse terms
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Abro (sexual and romantic)
A pos used to illustrate people who own a fluid sexual and/or romantic orientation which changes over time, or the course of their life. They may use different terms to describe themselves over time.
Ace
An umbrella term used specifically to describe a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of sexual attraction. This encompasses asexual people as skillfully as those who identify as demisexual and grey-sexual. Ace people who life romantic attraction or occasional sexual attraction might also employ terms such as gay, bi, woman loving woman, straight and lgbtq+ in conjunction with asexual to illustrate the direction of their romantic or sexual attraction.
Ace and aro/ace and aro spectrum
Umbrella terms used to describe the wide group of people who trial a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of amorous and/or sexual attraction, including a lack of attraction. People who identify under these umbrella terms may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms, including, but not limited to, asexual, ace, aromantic, aro, demi, grey, and abro. People may also employ terms such as gay,
Sexual Orientation and Gender Culture Definitions
Sexual orientation
An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people. Note: an individual’s sexual orientation is independent of their gender identity.
Gender identity
One's innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One's gender identity can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth.
Gender expression
External appearance of one's gender identity, usually expressed through deed, clothing, body characteristics or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically linked with being either masculine or feminine.
Transgender
An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or utterance is different from cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth. Existence transgender does not imply any specific sexual orientation. Therefore, gender non-conforming people may identify as unbent, gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc.
Gender transition
The process by which some people strive to more closely