LGBT initialism that stands for "lesbian , gay , bisexual , and transgender ." In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for certain sexualities and gender identities .
The LGBT term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB gay (or gay and lesbian ) in reference to the broader LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s. When not inclusive of transgender people, the shorter term LGB is still used instead of LGBT.
It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender , instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant, LGBTQ Q for those who identify as queer or are questioning their sexual or gender identity . The initialisms LGBT or GLBT are not agreed to by everyone that they are supposed to include. (Full article...
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I was raised around heterosexuals, and they didn't influence me!
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This 1908 painting by German artist Paul Höcker depicts Nino Cesarini, the Italian lover of Baron
Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen . Fersen had fled from France after a sex scandal and built a mansion on
Capri ,
Villa Lysis , where he lived together with Cesarini. The two edited a short-lived literary magazine together,
Akademos , which was partly a discreet defense of homosexual love. A romanticized account of their relationship is given by
Roger Peyrefitte in his 1959 novel
L'Exilé de Capri ("The Exile of Capri").
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