LGBT

LGBT is the initials of “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people” and adapted in French in “Lesbienne S, gay S, Bisexuel S and transgenre S”.

It allows by a term more inclusive than homosexual, to indicate a community , while keeping specificities of each one of its components.

Many alternatives exist, most common comprising Q for " Queer ", has for Asexuel or Anthrosexuel, I for Intersexuel, or a P for Pansexuel or Polyamour them.

Significance of each term

Each letter of the initials is employed to refer to a group and the cultural community which surrounds it.

Lesbianism

See also: Saphisme

The lesbianism refers to women affectivement and sexually attracted by women.

Gay

See also: Gay_ (homosexuality), Gay

Gay refers to the men exclusively attracted affectivement and sexually by other men and thus more generally at the male homosexual community. Certain stereotyped aspects of this community are used to define the character Métrosexuel certain men in comparison with the Hétérosexuel S.

Bisexual

See also: Bisexuality

Bisexual refers to the people who are attracted affectivement and sexually as well by the women as by the men, for this reason the Bisexual one is located between homosexuality and the heterosexuality.

Trans

See also: Transgenre

See also: Transsexualité

The Trans- prefix is generally employed as generic term to designate “people who estimate that the kind to which they were assigned (usually with the birth) is a false or unfinished description of themselves”.

In this definition are a certain number of subcategories like the transsexuals, the transgenres and sometimes the genderqueers (See also Cross-country race-dressingroom).

It as should be noted as, even if the identity of many intersexuées people does not correspond to the traditional stereotypes sex kind, the majority of the groups of intersexuées people vigorously reject any assimilation of their form of identity to the form " trans". Same manner these groups vigorously reject any shape of assimilation of the trans courses to an identity of the intergenre type. They feel that like an abuse of power (one moreover) and like an invasion of their own identity.

History

Until the end of the sexual Revolution of the Sixties, it had no term largely known there to describe the people of these groups other than the derogatory terms employed by the hétérosexuelle community.

Whereas the movements started to be organized for the rights of the homosexual ones, the need was felt to find a term more positive and of autodesignation to free itself from the hétérosexuelles standards.

While homosexual women forged their own identity around the term lesbians , the homosexual masculines wanted to be detached from this name to the negative image and medical and thus replaced it by gay (mainly in the Anglo-Saxon countries and in France during second half of the Nineties).

The gay terms and lesbians then had a certain influence for the recognition of these categories, from which the transsexuals and the bisexual ones wanted to profit. But the many homosexual ones (men and women) rejected the trans ones and the (a), showing the first to thwart the stereotypes and the seconds to be the homosexual ones too frightened to make them Coming-out.

One will not speak about community Lesbienne, Gay, Bi and Trans unified that the Nineties, once found the mutual respect enters the communities.

Term LGBT then became increasingly common and it was adopted by the majority of the lesbians groups, merry, bisexual, and trans, but also by the media and certain institutions.

The term continues all the same to make debate insofar as it is mainly used for questions concerning of the gays and the lesbians.

Other associated terms

Intersexuel

See also: Intersexuality

Sometimes included by the letter “I” in the Initials LGBTI.

Known as are intersexuées of the people whose body does not correspond to the rigid standards according to which the men and the women are defined. The differences can be Génétique S, phenotypical (physical) or both. The " term; Hermaphrodite " refers only to one particular case of intersexuality, that of people whose body can produce at the same time Spermatozoïde S and fertile Ovule S (approximately 1 person out of 20000). In much of case, the line between the intersexe and the Transgenre are complex, and some individuals adapted two classifications. There exists also the " term; intergenre" who is equivalent to androgyne, who describes an entirely female identity of kind neither entirely male nor, just like intersexuality indicates the same thing for the body.

Asexual

See also: Asexualité

This term represented by the letter " A" , sometimes included in the initials, a person who does not feel sexual attraction, towards some kind indicates that it is.

Pansexuel

This term can be included in initials LGBT, represented by the letter " P".

The Pansexualité (sometimes indicated by the term Omnisexualité) is the capacity to love a person, kind put aside. Thus a pansexuel is attracted aesthetically, romantiquement and/or sexually by a person, whatever her kind, including the people who are not integrated in the binary diagram man/woman (what differentiates the pansexuality from the bisexuality).

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