Introduction to the LGBTQ+ Community
I have been a part of the LGBTQ+ community since my junior year of high school, and I can say that the people in this community are some of the strongest, toughest, and most pride-filled people there is. LGBTQ+ stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer, and any other identities that have yet to be broadly publicized, including Asexuality, and Intersex people (Weinberg). These groups are very tight-knit, both amongst their intersections and in the community as a whole. The United States in itself is a very diverse place, and among all of the racial, religious and social diversity, there are gender and sexuality diversities as well. This gender and sexuality diversity is split up into two cultures: …show more content…
The LGBTQ+ community has a very unique and broad language to it, from words describing the genders and sexualities, words describing different subcategories in the sexualities and genders as well as slang terms (Weinberg). The language can be hard to pick up easily because the words can be long and hard to pronounce, with complicated definitions to coincide with that. A few examples of these words would be gender non-binary (gender related), polyamory (sexual related), and asexual (sexual related), these are just a few identities out of the hundreds of combined identities. Within these categories you can have subcategories as well, such as a subcategory of gender non-binary would be “masculine presenting female” which means that the person is female and is comfortable in that gender but prefers to dress/act/appear masculine (Weinberg). This is also just one example of various different subcategories. Lastly, in language there is the slag that is used, examples of this are MTF (male to female transgender), FTM (female to male transgender), AFAB (Assigned Female At Birth), AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth), and top/bottom (similar to dominant or submissive)
I have been a part of the LGBTQ+ community since my junior year of high school, and I can say that the people in this community are some of the strongest, toughest, and most pride-filled people there is. LGBTQ+ stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer, and any other identities that have yet to be broadly publicized, including Asexuality, and Intersex people (Weinberg). These groups are very tight-knit, both amongst their intersections and in the community as a whole. The United States in itself is a very diverse place, and among all of the racial, religious and social diversity, there are gender and sexuality diversities as well. This gender and sexuality diversity is split up into two cultures: …show more content…
The LGBTQ+ community has a very unique and broad language to it, from words describing the genders and sexualities, words describing different subcategories in the sexualities and genders as well as slang terms (Weinberg). The language can be hard to pick up easily because the words can be long and hard to pronounce, with complicated definitions to coincide with that. A few examples of these words would be gender non-binary (gender related), polyamory (sexual related), and asexual (sexual related), these are just a few identities out of the hundreds of combined identities. Within these categories you can have subcategories as well, such as a subcategory of gender non-binary would be “masculine presenting female” which means that the person is female and is comfortable in that gender but prefers to dress/act/appear masculine (Weinberg). This is also just one example of various different subcategories. Lastly, in language there is the slag that is used, examples of this are MTF (male to female transgender), FTM (female to male transgender), AFAB (Assigned Female At Birth), AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth), and top/bottom (similar to dominant or submissive)