. LGBTQ+ Community
And
What The Name Stands For

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Wanna make this to educate myself even more and maybe help someone else learn

THE FLAG

In 1978, artist Gilbert Baker was the first to design the flag (1) as Harvey Milk, an openly gay elected official in the US, had been requesting him to.

Because of the unavailability of the hot pink fabric it was changed (2) and later the turquoise stripe was gone (3)

MEANING BEHIND EACH STRIPE:

Hot pink — Sex
Red — Life
Orange — Healing
Yellow — Sunlight
Green — Nature
Turquoise— Magic/Art
Indigo — Serenity
Violet — Spirit

source: wikipedia

What Gilbert Baker said about choosing a flag as a representation:

“Our job as gay people was to come out, to be visible, to live in the truth...A flag really fit that mission, because that’s a way of proclaiming your visibility or saying, ‘This is who I am!’”

source:britannica

In 2017, black and brown stripes were added to draw attention to issues of people of colour (1).

In 2018, a white stripe in the middle was added to the original flag by Estêvão Romane (2). The flat was used in a Love Fest parade in São Paulo.

In 2018, Daniel Quasar made a new version of the flag, combining the flag made in 2017 and the transgender flag.

source: wikipedia

A lot of people choose this flag because “without these groups (black, brown and trans communities), we wouldn’t have Pride today”

source: them.

THE NAME

LGBTQ+ is only a small part of the actual name. I believe the full name is:

L esbian
G ay
B isexual
T ransgender
T ranssexual
T wo-spirit
Q ueer
Q uestioning
I ntersex
A sexual
A lly
+ Pansexual
Agender
Gender queer
Bigender
Gender Varient
Pangender

LESBIAN = female homosexual or a female who experiences romantic or sexual attraction towards another female (1)

GAY = a person that experiences romantic or sexual attraction towards another person the same sex as they are, mostly referred to males (2)

BISEXUAL = a person who experiences romantic or sexual attraction to multiple genders (2 or more genders) (1)

TRANSGENDER = an umbrella term for people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth (2)

TRANSSEXUAL = a term that refers to people whose experience of gender involves medical changes

TWO-SPIRITS = people that have male and female spirits within them, used by indigenous North Americans (1)

QUEER = umbrella term for people that are not heterosexual or cisgender

QUESTIONING = process of exploration about one’s gender, sexual identity, sexual orientation or all three (1)

INTERSEX = variation of sex characteristics (since birth) that do not tick all the boxes of traditional female or male characteristics (1)

ASEXUAL = a person who experiences little or no sexual attraction but it DOES NOT mean they don’t experience other forms of attraction (2)

ALLY = a person who supports LGBTQ+ community without being a part of it (1)

PANSEXUAL = a person who’s sexually or romantically attracted to ALL genders (2)

AGENDER = people who identify as having no gender (3)

GENDERQUEER = person who identifies as neither male or female (4)

BIGENDER = one identifies as both male and female or goes between masculine and feminine gender expressions(1)

GENDER VARIENT = one’s gender expression does not match masculine or feminine gender norms (2?)

PANGENDER = a person that identifies as many or all genders (3)

NON-BINARY GENDER:

• A gender identity and an umbrella term
• A term to describe genders that don’t exclusively fall into male or female
• May identify as genders: (see image 2)
• “Gender is a spectrum”

source: healthline, verywellmind, ok2bme, wikipedia

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DEMISEXUAL = an individual that experiences sexual attraction only after they’ve formed a strong emotional connection with someone.
Gender does not play a role for them.
Such individuals may be attracted to strangers but only momentarily.

tw: discrimination

The images below show only a tiny bit of the tough reality for LGBTQ+ community.

source: businessinsider

tw:conversion therapy

Also, I have just seen this and it had truly taken my breath away. I knew things weren’t amazing but this..

I would like to recommend a movie/book called “Boy Erased”. It’s about gay conversion therapy and is based on a real story.

source: businessinsider

I tried my best researching and I hope some will use it to learn

It’s important to know about the community and to respect all the aspects of it

Please, be respectful and open-minded

Please, help educate others

PLEASE, respect everyone’s pronouns