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List of LGBTQ+ terms
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Abro (sexual and romantic)
A word used to describe people who verb a fluid sexual and/or idealistic orientation which changes over moment, or the course of their life. They may use adj 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 well as those who identify as demisexual and grey-sexual. Ace people who experience romantic attraction or occasional sexual attraction might also use terms such as gay, bi, lesbian, straight and queer in conjunction with asexual to describe 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 experience a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of romantic 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,
Bisexual FAQ
What does bisexual mean?
In simplest terms, a bisexual person is someone who can be attracted to more than one gender; but adults and youth who identify as bisexual sometimes describe themselves differently. Many bisexual adults have embraced the definition proposed by longtime bisexual leader, national speaker and award-winning activist Robyn Ochs:
"I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted - romantically and/or sexually - to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree."
This broad definition of bisexuality includes people who spot as pansexual, queer, fluid and other labels that suggest potential attraction to more than one gender.
How many people are bisexual?
According to the Williams Institute and the HRC Foundation's own investigate, studies suggest that about 50 percent of people who recognize as either gay, lesbian or bisexual, identify as bisexual. This makes the bisexual population t
Not to be confused with Bi-Veldian.
A bi gay or bi-oriented gay is someone who is both bisexual/biromantic/etc. and gay.
This term can be used by men and others who use the split attraction model and are bisexual and homoromantic, homosexual biromantic or those who experience gay or bi tertiary attraction. They have sexual attraction to two or more genders but are only romantically attracted to their own/similar gender(s). They may discover themselves sexually attracted to dissimilar genders, but could never picture themselves in a sexual relationship with them, putting more emphasis on their attraction to their own/similar genders, though this varies from person to person. Or they could be romantically attracted to any gender but only sexually attracted to the same/similar gender or are only willing to be with the same/similar gender(s) sexually.
It can also be used by people who identify as both bisexual and gay, either due to changing attraction (such as abrosexuality), or due being part of a plural system, such as having a different sexuality when fronting, or being
Netflix: How did it know I was bi before I did?
BBC Long Form Audio
After BBC reporter Ellie House came out as bisexual, she realised that Netflix already seemed to grasp. How did that happen?
I realised that I was bisexual in my second year of university, but Big Tech seemed to have worked it out several months before me.
I'd had one long-term boyfriend before then, and always considered myself straight. To be honest, dating wasn't at the top of my agenda.
However, at that time I was watching a lot of Netflix and I was getting more and more recommendations for series with lesbian storylines, or bi characters.
These were TV series that my friends - people of a similar age, with a similar background, and similar streaming histories - were not being recommended, and had never heard of.
One show that stuck out was called You Me Her, about a suburban married couple who welcome a third person into their relationship. Entire of queer storylines and bi characters, it has been described as TV's "first polyromantic comedy&