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Glossary of Terms
Many Americans refrain from talking about sexual orientation and gender identity or expression because it feels taboo, or because they’re scared of saying the wrong thing.
This glossary was written to help give people the words and meanings to serve make conversations easier and more content. LGBTQ+ people utilize a variety of terms to name themselves, not all of which are included in this glossary. Always monitor for and respect a person’s self identified terminology.
Ally | A term used to describe someone who is actively supportive of Queer people. It encompasses straight and cisgender allies, as successfully as those within the LGBTQ+ people who support each other (e.g., a lesbian who is an ally to the bisexual community).
Asexual | Often called “ace” for quick , asexual refers to a complete or partial lack of sexual attraction or lack of interest in sexual task with others. Asexuality exists on a spectrum, and asexual people may exposure no, little or conditional sexual attraction.
Biphobia | The anxiety and hatred of, or discomfort with, people who cherish and are sexually attracted to more than one gender.
Bisexual | Nope! It’s easy to get this muddled, particularly because T is included in the LGBTQ+ acronym (T standing for “Transgender”). The key is to remember that trans person is referring to someone’s gender identity and not their sexuality orientation. Transgender people can be gay, straight, pansexual, queer, asexual, or any other sexual orientation (just like cisgender people!). Our Foundational Curriculum is a designed to create a Guarded Zone 101 overview workshop. We recommend this workshop for all audiences – gay, straight, homosexual, allied, and anywhere in between (or outside) those categories. While some of it may be old information for some, we believe that everyone, no matter their knowledge level, will acquire something out of the experience. We do have exercises that can be used for more advanced/specific workshops. Just review out the explore activities tab and search under the “201” levels for more advanced activities! Yes! One of our goals for this project is to turn it into the go-to resou WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup’s latest update on LGBTQ+ identification finds 9.3% of U.S. adults naming as lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual in 2024. This represents an raise of more than a percentage point versus the prior estimate, from 2023. Longer term, the figure has nearly doubled since 2020 and is up from 3.5% in 2012, when Gallup first measured it. ###Embeddable### LGBTQ+ identification is increasing as younger generations of Americans enter adulthood and are much more likely than older generations to say they are something other than heterosexual. More than one in five Gen Z adults -- those born between 1997 and 2006, who were between the ages of 18 and 27 in 2024 -- identify as LGBTQ+. Each older generation of adults, from millennials to the Silent Generation, has successively lower rates of identification, down to 1.8% among the oldest Americans, those born before 1946. ###Embeddable### LGBTQ+ identification rates among young people have also increased, from an average 18.8% of Gen Z adults in 2020 through 2022 to an average of 22.7% over the past two years. Gallup has Many people have difficulty understanding and differentiating between who a transvestite, transsexual, or transgender is. This can be a huge problem, considering that it is a daily life for some people. You may even unknowingly fit into one of these categories, or perhaps categorise yourself in the wrong group. The rest of the population should also recognise and remunerate attention to the different “trans” terms as they may affect their lives – directly or indirectly – at some point. Transvestite This legal title is usually grouped together with “crossdresser,” and is used to refer to individuals who fond to dress in what would conventionally be worn by the opposite gender, and act in that manner, as well. For instance, you can own heterosexual males wearing traditionally feminine clothing and acquiring feminine mannerisms. Cross-dressers don’t regard themselves as anything but straight or heterosexual, and so they don’t associate with the LGBTQ community. Drag queens (men who dress up in female clothes and personify female gender stereotypes) and drag kings (women who dress in masculine queenly and personify male gender stereotypes) are generally not considered transvestites or cros
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LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Rises to 9.3%