The following outline offers an overview and guide to topics about LGBTQ people.
The initialism LGBTQ stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer". It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual, non-heteroromantic, and/or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Sexuality
Sexual orientation types
Topics
By region
By culture
Identities
Sexual identity topics
Gender identity topics
Sex and physiology
Romance
Expression
Practices
Society
Homosexuality
Lesbianism
Adoption, parenting, and same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage (SSM) by region
SSM in Canada
SSM in Mexico
SSM in the UK
SSM in the US
Same-sex partnerships, and immigration
People topics
Themes
Language
Culture
By country
By city
By US region
LGBTQ media
Print
Moving image
History
By country
In the US
Timelines
Religion
Rights
By major region
By area
Ideology
Bibliography
Lists
Lists of LGBTQ fictional characters
Anti-LGBTQ topics
- AIDS stigma â prejudice against people with HIV+ and AIDS
- Amatonormativity â is the set of societal assumptions that everyone prospers with an exclusive romantic relationship
- Anti-LGBTQ hate groups
- Anti-homosexual attitudes â societal attitudes against homosexuality
- Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric â themes, catchphrases, and slogans which have been used to condemn or demean LGBTQ people
- Homophobic propaganda â propaganda based on negative and homophobia towards homosexual, putatively homosexual and sometimes other non-heterosexual or non-cisgender people
- LGBTQ grooming conspiracy theory - far-right conspiracy theory that those in the LGBTQ community and allies are either grooming children or enabling grooming
- Rapid-onset gender dysphoria - the scientifically unsupported hypothesis that adolescents identity as transgender or experience gender dysphoria due to social contagion.
- Cairo 52 â in Egypt, fifty-two men charged with "habitual practice of debauchery" and "obscene behaviour" under Article 9c of Law No. 10 of 1961
- Cissexism or cisnormativityâ bias in favor of people who identify with the gender assigned to them at birth
- Transphobia â antipathy toward transgender people
- Anti-gender movement â movement which seeks to discredit gender in favor of assigned sex
- Anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom
- TERF â acronym for Trans-exclusionary radical feminism
- Trans-exclusionary radical feminism or Gender-critical feminism, anti-trans movement
- Transmisogyny â antipathy toward trans women
- Trans panic defense â a legal strategy in which a defendant claims they acted in a state of violent, temporary insanity
- Criminalization of homosexuality
- Criminalization of gender-affirming care
- Discrimination against gay men
- Discrimination against LGBTQ people
- Discrimination against intersex people
- Discrimination against lesbians
- Discrimination against non-binary gender people
- Drag panic - a moral panic that drag is harmful to minors
- Ego-dystonic sexual orientation â mental disorder of having a sexual orientation or an attraction that is at odds with one's idealized self-image
- Ex-gay movement â people who once identified as homosexual or bisexual, but who no longer assert that identity
- Heteronormativity â lifestyle norms that holds that people fall into distinct and complementary genders with natural roles in life
- Heterosexism â attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of heterosexuality or heterosexual people
- Homophobia â antipathy toward homosexual people
- Lesbophobia â antipathy toward lesbians
- Biphobia â antipathy toward bisexual people
- Panphobia â Dislike or prejudice against pansexuality or pansexual people.
- Acephobia â antipathy toward asexual people
- Arophobia - antipathy toward aromantic people.
- Intersex medical intervention human rights issues
- Intersex infanticide
- Queer erasure â tendency to intentionally or unintentionally remove LGBTQ groups or people from record, or downplay their significance
- Conversion therapy â pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Censorship of LGBTQ issues
- Anti-LGBTQ curriculum laws in the U.S. - laws limiting the inclusion of LGBTQ subjects in public schools.
- Book bans due to LGBTQ content in the U.S.
- Intersex erasure
- Lesbian erasure
- Bisexual erasure
- Straightwashing â portraying LGB or otherwise queer characters in fiction as heterosexual
- Capital punishment for homosexuality
- Gay gang murders â a series of suspected anti-LGBTQ hate crimes perpetrated by large gangs of youths in Sydney, between 1970 and 2010
- Anti-gay purges in Chechnya â forced disappearances, secret abductions, imprisonment, torture and extrajudicial killing by authorities targeting persons based on their perceived sexual orientation
- LGBTQ rights opposition â opposition to legal rights for LGBTQ people
- LGBTQ-free zone
- 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
- Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration
- 21st-century anti-trans movement in the United Kingdom
- LGBTQ stereotypes
- Violence against LGBTQ people â violence motivated by sexuality or gender identity
- Corrective rape - rape motivated against the victim's perceived sexual orientation or gender non-conformity; it is often intended make the victim heterosexual
- Gay bashing â verbal or physical abuse against a person who is perceived by the aggressor to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual
- Gay panic defense â a legal defence for assault or homicide alleging a sexual advance by the victim against the assailant
- List of people killed for being transgender
- Trans bashing â the act of victimizing a person physically, sexually, or verbally because they are transgender or transsexual
Other topics
See also
References