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lgbt LGBT+
English
LGBTQ (term),LGBTQ people
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Alternative forms
en LGBTQ GLBT lgbt BGLT
Etymology
en lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or transsexual, derived from earlier en LGB. Attested since 1988. Used as a self-designation in United States gay rights activism since about 1990.1988 American Educational Research Association Verlag AERA Research, policy and practice: Annual meeting https://books.google.com/books?ei=PW9JTfOeOtPd4AbR54SjDA&ct=result&id=PiglAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22An+Examination+of+the+Family-School+Relationship%22&q=LGBT
Pronunciation
en L G B T
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-LGBT.wav US
en iː 4
Adjective
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Being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, or relating to these groups as a collective.
en GBT GLBT BGLT
en 2005 Gary W. Harper Heterosexism and Oppression Geoffrey Nelson; Isaac Prilleltensky Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-being Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y. w:Palgrave Macmillan part V (Putting It All Together: Addressing the Issues), chapter 19 (A Journey Towards Liberation: Confronting Heterosexism and the Oppression of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People) 392 https://archive.org/details/communitypsychol0000nels/page/392/mode/1up 978-0-333-92282-8 This differential treatment in both the community of culture and mainstream white LGBT community may lead some LGBT people of colour to experience varying degrees of visibility and invisibility within these communities, and their identity as a LGBT person may change depending on the cultural context.
en 05/17/2016 Cherie Chan w:DW News LGBT rights Chinese gay couple marry despite court ruling https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-gay-couple-marry-despite-court-ruling/a-19263412 https://web.archive.org/web/20160518111650/https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-gay-couple-marry-despite-court-ruling/a-19263412 18 May 2016 In a restaurant in Changsha, the capital of central China's Hunan province, Hu Mingliang and Sun Wenlin exchanged their wedding rings, and received blessings from over 200 friends, relatives, as well as LGBT rights activists from around the country.
Usage notes
Additional letters are sometimes added, such as Q for en queer or en questioning, I for en intersex, P for en pansexual, A for en asexual, among others.
When speaking only of sexuality, but not gender, the abbreviations en LGB or en GLB may be used.Katherine Cox, Sexual Orientation, in Death, Dying, and Social Differences (edited by David Oliviere, Barbara Monroe, Sheila Payne, published in 2011), page 197: Trans communities Although the umbrella term LGBT makes pragmatic sense, there are compelling arguments to treat transgendered people as distinct from LGB communities: gender identity is clearly distinct from sexual identity (Dean et al., 2000) and to conflate the two risks ignoring the particular experiences of this ["trans"] group which is itself heterogeneous, comprising intersex individuals, androgynes, transvestites, and a whole range of others. Transgendered people can experience trans-phobia within LGB services and communities[.]
Often the term en queer is used as an alternative shorthand for all gender-non-conforming behavior, including homosexuality and bisexuality, but this may be controversial; see the notes there.
Derived terms
en anti-LGBT LGBTeen LGBTer LGBTism<qq:derogatory> LGBTphobia LGBTphobic pro-LGBT
Translations
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or transsexual
Afrikaans: af LGBT
Arabic: ar مُجْتَمَع المِيم, ar إِل جِي بِي تِي, ar مجتمع الميم-عين m mujtamaʕ al-mīm ʕayn, ar م. م. م. ع, ar م. م. م. م, ar قَوْم لُوطinformal derogatory
Armenian: hy ԼԳԵՓ, hy ԼԳԲՏ
Belarusian: be ЛГБТ p
Bengali: bn এলজিবিটি el-ji-bi-ṭi
Breton: br LGBT, br LGDT
Bulgarian: bg ЛГБТ
Catalan: ca LGTB
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn LGBT
Cornish: kw LKDT
Czech: cs LGBT
Danish: da LGBT
Dutch: nl LHBT, nl lhbt m f
Esperanto: eo GLAT
Finnish: fi HLBT
French: fr LGBT
Galician: gl LGTB
Georgian: ka ლგბტ
German: de LSBT, de LGBT
Greek: el ΛΟΑΤ
Hebrew: he להט"ב lahatáv
Hindi: hi एल जी बी टी
Hungarian: hu LMBT
Indonesian: id LGBT
Irish: ga LADT
Italian: it LGBT
Japanese: ja LGBT eru jī bī tī
Korean: ko 엘지비티 eljibiti
Malay: ms LGBT
Māori: mi takatāpui
Mongolian: mn ЛГБТ
Norwegian: no LHBT
Persian: fa الجیبیتی el-ji-bi-ti
Polish: pl LGBT n
Portuguese: pt LGBT
Romanian: ro LGBT
Russian: ru ЛГБТ p, written out: ru лесбия́нки, ге́и, бисексуа́лы и трансге́ндеры p lesbijánki, géi, bisɛksuály i transgéndɛry
Scottish Gaelic: gd LCDT
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh ЛГБТ
Latin: sh LGBT
Spanish: es LGBT Latin America, es LGTB Spain
Swedish: sv HBT, sv hbt
Thai: th กลุ่มบุคคลที่มีความหลากหลายทางเพศ glùm bùkkon têe mee kwaam làak lăai taang pâyt, th กลุ่มบุคคลแอลจีบีที glùm bùk-kon ɛɛl-jii-bii-tii
Turkish: tr LGBT
Ukrainian: uk ЛГБТ p
Urdu: ur ایل جی بی ٹی el jī bī ṭī
Uzbek: uz LBBT
Vietnamese: vi LGBT
Welsh: cy LHDT
Noun
s *
en chiefly in the plural nonstandard A member of the LGBT community.
en 1999 Global Human Rights Law Collection: Historical texts and materials on human rights https://books.google.ca/books?id=ooJNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22LGBT+is%22 An applicant may exceptionally be able to demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution even if a law criminalizing LGBT is no longer enforced,
en 2016-01-29 Rebekah Herrick Minorities and Representation in American Politics CQ Press 9781483386850 Further evidence of the political weakness of LGBT is that they are not concentrated enough to be a majority of voters, or even a minority of influence in any state or city.
en 2013 The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health Michael Shankle https://books.google.ca/books?id=xq5LU0iK1Y4C&pg=RA1-PT34&dq=%22LGBT+is+higher%22 In many cities you will find a neighborhood where the population density of LGBT is higher than it is in other parts of the city.
en 1999 Democracy & Education 13 https://books.google.ca/books?id=8XbsAAAAMAAJ&q=%22LGBT+is%22 Allies can point this out when they discern that a LGBT is being asked to serve in an expert capacity and ask questions like, "How comfortable do you feel being asked to assume the role of representative for all LGBTs?"
en 2018 Nick Duffy w:Pink News Disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly claims ‘the LGBTs’ are trying to rid America of white men https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/04/01/disgraced-former-fox-news-host-bill-oreilly-claims-the-lgbts-are-trying-to-rid-america-of-white-men/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220819231032/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/04/01/disgraced-former-fox-news-host-bill-oreilly-claims-the-lgbts-are-trying-to-rid-america-of-white-men/ 19 August 2022
en cuisine A sandwich named after the sexuality-gender term, composed of en lettuce, en guacamole or en avocado, en bacon, en tomato. A variant of the en BLT.2 May 2019 w:Pink News M&S launch LGBT sandwich and it’s dividing opinion https://www.thepinknews.com/2019/05/02/marks-and-spencer-lgbt-sandwich-dividing-opinion/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240417032305/https://www.thepinknews.com/2019/05/02/marks-and-spencer-lgbt-sandwich-dividing-opinion/ 17 April 2024 7 May 2019 Harron Walker w:Out Leave the Gay Sandwich Alone https://www.out.com/pride/2019/5/07/leave-gay-sandwich-alone https://web.archive.org/web/20260310030957/https://www.out.com/pride/2019/5/07/leave-gay-sandwich-alone 10 March 202614 April 2016 Paul Blest w:Indy Week Players’ Retreat Offering Special LGBT Sandwich, All Proceeds Go To Equality NC https://indyweek.com/food-and-drink/players-retreat-offering-special-lgbt-sandwich-proceeds-go-equality-nc/ https://web.archive.org/web/20241130134749/https://indyweek.com/food-and-drink/players-retreat-offering-special-lgbt-sandwich-proceeds-go-equality-nc/ 30 November 2024
en w:Owen Jones Woke-washing: how brands are cashing in on the culture wars The Guardian 2019-05-23 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/23/woke-washing-brands-cashing-in-on-culture-wars-owen-jones 0261-3077 Whether it’s LGBT sandwiches in an era where schools in Birmingham are facing protests for teaching LGBTQ rights, or Nike promoting the fight against police brutality in the age of Trump, brands are tapping into this sense of millennial grievance. https://web.archive.org/web/20261018013316/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/may/23/woke-washing-brands-cashing-in-on-culture-wars-owen-jones 18 October 2026
See also
en
References
Further reading
LGB community, GLB community, LGBT community, LGBTQ community, GLBT community 1990
Anagrams
en bglt GLBT
en LGBTQ
Danish
da:
Noun
en LGBT
da LGBTQ
French
Pronunciation
el-gé-bé-té
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-LGBT.wav <<France>> (<<Toulouse>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-LGBT.wav <<France>> (<<Lyon>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Opsylac-LGBT.wav <<France>> (<<Grenoble>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Bananax47-LGBT.wav <<France>> (<<Agen>>)
Adjective
1
en LGBT; fr lesbiennes, gays, bisexuels, transgenres
See also
fr
fr LGBTQ
Indonesian
id:
Alternative forms
id lagibatuk lagibete both _ derogatory
id eljibiti
Pronunciation
id /ˈɛlɡebete/ /ˈɛldʒibiti/
Noun
en LGBT; id lesbian, gay, biseksual, dan transgender
Further reading
id LGBTQ
Japanese
ja:
Alternative forms
LGBTQ エル-ジー-ビー-ティー-キュー
Etymology
ja en LGBT.
Pronunciation
エルジービーティー 7
Noun
エル-ジー-ビー-ティー
LGBT
L%G%B%Tの権%利 エル%-ジー%-ビー%-ティー の けん%り LGBT rights
ja LGBTQ
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl :obor en:LGBT + 1
Pronunciation
el gie be 'te LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-LGBT.wav L.G.B.T
Noun
n 1
en LGBT
pl Po tym, jak rosyjski Sąd Najwyższy uznał “międzynarodowy ruch LGBT” za ekstremistyczny, baza filmów Kinopoisk zmieniła kategorię “My Little Pony” na powyżej 18 lat. https://pl.belsat.eu/79882763/rosja-walczy-z-lgbt-my-little-pony-dozwolone-od-lat-18-jeden-z-kucykow-ma-teczowa-grzywe Belsat PL 5 December 2023 Rosja walczy z LGBT: "My Little Pony" dozwolone od lat 18. Jeden z kucyków ma tęczową grzywę https://web.archive.org/web/20260211202328/https://pl.belsat.eu/79882763/rosja-walczy-z-lgbt-my-little-pony-dozwolone-od-lat-18-jeden-z-kucykow-ma-teczowa-grzywe 11 February 2026
Further reading
pl initialisms
pl Collectives LGBTQ
Portuguese
pt:
Etymology
pt en LGBT. pt GLS 1 in Brazil.
Pronunciation
éle-gê-bê-tê él-gê-bê-tê
Adjective
#,#s<l:nonstandard>
en LGBT; pt lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, transgênero/transexuais
pt LGTV<ll:derogatory>
Noun
mfbysense #,#s<l:nonstandard>
pt nonstandard en LGBT
pt LGTV<ll:derogatory>
Further reading
pt LGBTQ
Spanish
es:
Etymology
es :bor en:LGBT + 1
Pronunciation
elegebeté
Adjective
es adjective
es Latin America en LGBT
es LGTB<q:Spain>
Usage notes
In Latin America, "LGBT" is used the same as almost all over the world, but in Spain "es LGTB" is used, inverting the letters "B" and "T". In Spain, this applies to all derivatives: es LGTBI, es LGTBIQ, es LGTBfobia, es LGTBIfobia, etc.
See also
es LGBTI LGBTIQ LGBTQ LGBTQ+ LGTB LGTBI LGTBIQ LGTBIQ+
es LGBTQ
Turkish
tr:
Etymology
tr :bor en:LGBT + 1
Pronunciation
le:ge:be:te: legebete [l̠ʲe̞ː.ɟe̞ː.be̞ːˈt̪ʰɛː] [l̠ʲe̞.ɟe̞.be̞ˈt̪ʰɛ]
tr e 4
Adjective
tr adjective
en LGBT
Related terms
tr LGBTI
tr LGBTQ