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Many variants exist, including variations which merely change the order of the letters; but LGBT is the most common acronym and the one most accepted in current usage. When not inclusive of transgender people it is shortened to LGB. It may also include two additional Qs for queer and questioning (sometimes abbreviated with a question mark) (LGBTQ, LGBTQQ); a variant being LGBU, where U stands for "unsure", an I for intersex (LGBTI), another T for transsexu ...

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Commonly the Hijra-rights groups support gay rights issues in the Indian subcontinent, but this is a newly-emerging situation. In November of 2000, Asha Devi - a hijra - was elected mayor of Gorakhpur, a post reserved for a woman. The city had a population of approximately 500,000 as of 1991. She was unseated when a court decreed that she was a man [1], but was later reinstated. The term "hijra" in this context is to be distinguished from an Arabic word of the same transliteration. The last consonant in the South Asian term is not pronounced like the English "r" or the Arabic ra or Ray. Th ...

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As mentioned above there is some resemblance between hijras and the ancient galli of Cybele. However, it is not known if there is a link between the two, and there seem to be no references to similar practices in other Indo-European cultures. The ancient Kama Sutra mentions the performance of oral sex on male parishioners at Hindu temples by hijras. During British colonialism, negative attitudes towards hijras were imported from Europe. The British passed laws outlawing their practices. Homosexual depictions in many Hindu templ ...

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List of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender community centers - Ontario. Ottawa - Ottawa GLBTQ Community Centre Initiative (website) Toronto - The 519 located at Church and Wellesley(website) The University of Toronto Drop-in Centre (website) List of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender community centers - Quebec. ...

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LGBT is not uncontroversial. For example, some transgender and transsexual people do not like the term because they do not believe their cause is the same as that of LGB people; they may also object when an organization adds a T to their acronym when the level of service they actually offer to trans people is questionable. There are also LGB people who don't like the T for the same or similar reasons. Many people also believe that a sharp distinction should be drawn between sexual orientation and gender identity. GLB concerns the for ...

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Magnus Hirschfeld was the most influential (but by no means the only) person who categorised all people who violated heteronormative rules as a third sex/gender, that is gay, lesbian and transgender people and (to some extent) intersex people. While this notion disappeared from scientific discourses during the Second World War, the notion of a "third gender" survived at least until the 1970s; and today's notion of Queer once more includes exactly these groups of people. The LGB subculture was often the only place where g ...

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Homosexuality and transgender, Homosexuality and transgender - The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex community, Homosexuality and transgender - The semantic problem, Homosexuality and transgender - History, Homosexuality and transgender - Actual current usage, Homosexuality and transgender - The biological definition, Homosexuality and transgender - The bio-social or historical definition, Homosexuality and transgender - Conclusion

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Sexual activity between women is as diverse as sex between heterosexuals or gay men. Some women in lesbian relationships do not identify as lesbian, but as bisexual. As with any interpersonal activity, sexual expression depends on the context of the relationship. Like anyone else (regardless of sexuality), lesbians can be promiscuous or committed, ashamed or proud. There is a wide spectrum of lesbian behavior and generalizations can be misleading. Recent cultural changes in western and a few other societies have enabled lesbians to express t ...

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Throughout history, hundreds of lesbians have been well-known figures in the arts and culture. (See List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people.) Before the influence of European sexology emerged at the turn of the twentieth-century, in cultural terms female homosexuality remained almost invisible as compared to male homosexuality, which was subject to the law and thus more regulated and reported by the press. However with the publication of works by sexologists like Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Havelock Ellis, Edward Carpenter and Magnus Hirschfeld, the concept of active female ...

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See also: Terminology of homosexuality The word lesbian originally referred to an inhabitant of Lesbos, an island in Greece where an ancient Greek lyric poet named Sappho lived. Some of her poems imply love between women. Whether Sappho was a lesbian in the modern meaning of the term or a poet who described lesbians is not known. Although she did write poems about love between women, there is some dispute as to how her writings can be interpreted. Sappho's literary association with love between women led to t ...

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Peter Tatchell -- Tea room -- Term for gay in different languages -- The Body Politic -- The Hun -- The Washington Blade -- The Voice -- Thomas Eakins -- Tim Christy -- Tom of Finland -- Torch Song Trilogy -- Transsexual -- Treasure Island Media -- Twink -- Henry Scott Tuke ...

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In Western societies, explicit prohibitions on women's homosexual behavior have been markedly weaker than those on men's homosexual behavior. In the United Kingdom, lesbianism has never been illegal. Male homosexuality, however, which was criminalised in the late 19th century, occasionally produced a prison sentence and was only legalised in England and Wales in 1967. There are various apocryphal stories about why lesbianism was not criminalised in the UK. One relates that Queen Victoria refused to sign a bill outlawing it, insisting, "ladies did not do such things." However, lesbian publications such as The Well ...

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"Drag" is too casual and culturally freighted a term to be used for the cross-dressing elements in shamanism, but there is a long history of drag in the performing arts, spanning a wide range of cultural as well as artistic traditions. Drag in the theater arts manifests two kinds of phenomenon. One is cross-dressing in the performance, which is part of the social history of theater. The other is cross-dressing withinSee also:

Drag clothing, Drag clothing - Drag in the performing arts, Drag clothing - Drag kings and queens

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The requirements for hormone replacement therapy vary greatly, often at least a certain time of psychological counseling is required, and so is a time of living in the desired gender role, if possible, to ensure that they can psychologically function in that life-role. Generally speaking, physicians who perform sex-reassignment surgery require the patient to live as the opposite gender in all possible ways for at least a year ("cross-live") prior to the start of surgery in order to assure that they can psychologically function in that ...

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Gender identity disorder - DSM-IV. The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has five criteria that must be met before a diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder (302.85) can be given: [1] There must be evidence of a strong and persistent cross-gender identification. This cross-gender identification must not merely be a desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being the other sex. There must also be evidence of persistent discomfort ...

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Passing describes a transgender person's ability to be accepted as their preferred sex, to have an appearance that causes one to be assumed by strangers to be a cisgendered man (for transmen) or woman (for transwomen). The term refers primarily to acceptance by people the individual does not know, or who do not know that the individual is transgender. Typically, passing involves a mix of physical sex cues, like hair style and clothing, as well as behavioral attributes, comportment and mode and style of interpersonal communication. For ...

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Racial or ethnic passing describes a member of a disadvantaged racial or ethnic group (usually member of a minority) who succeeds in being accepted by others as another race or ethnicity, especially in the case of a person of mixed race or ethnicity being accepted as a member of the racial or ethnic majority. It is usually used derisively and is not considered politically correct to aspire or attempt to pass, or to accuse another person of aspiring or attempting to pass. It has, therefore, been ...

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These Standards of Care (HBIGDA-SOC) are the most widespread SOC used by professionals working with transgendered persons. The HBIGDA-SOC are periodically updated and revised as new scientific information becomes available. The latest revision was released February 20, 2001. This is the sixth version of the HBIGDA-SOC since the original 1979 document was drafted. Previous revisions were released in 1980, 1981, 1990, and 1998. The HBIGDA 18th Biennial Symposium will be held September 10-13, 2003, in Ghent, Belgium, which could mean that yet a ...

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A sexual identity is not the result of something that occurs at one point in time, although some scientists and many laymen seek "causes" of sexual identity. It may be that not all factors relevant to the gradual determination of a sexual identity have yet been identified. The weights of the various factors that are now known or suspected have also not been clearly determined. That being said, there are ...

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All western European countries give transsexual people the right to at least change their first name. Most also provide a way of changing birth certificates. Several European countries recognize the right of transsexuals to marry in their post-operative sex. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Denmark, Finland and Sweden and the United Kingdom all recognize this right. See also:

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Gender identity disorder - DSM-IV. The current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has five criteria that must be met before a diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder can be given: [1] There must be evidence of a strong and persistent cross-gender identification. This cross-gender identification must not merely be a desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being the other sex. There must also be evidence of persistent discomfort about one ...

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Gender identity disorder, Gender identity disorder - Diagnostic criteria, Gender identity disorder - DSM-IV, Gender identity disorder - ICD-10, Gender identity disorder - Controversy, Gender identity disorder - Treatment

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A lot of transgender people do not regard their cross-gender feelings and behaviours as a disorder. They question what a "normal" gender identity or a "normal" gender role is supposed to be. Sometimes, even the very existence of a "normal" gender identity or gender role is examined, and often rejected by sectors of modern gender studies. They often point out that not everyone who is born male is stereotypically masculine, and not everyone born female is stereotypically feminine. Some people see "transgendering" as a means for deconstructing gender. However, not all transgender peo ...

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Gender identity disorder, Gender identity disorder - Diagnostic criteria, Gender identity disorder - DSM-IV, Gender identity disorder - ICD-10, Gender identity disorder - Controversy, Gender identity disorder - Treatment

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Racial or ethnic passing describes a member of a usually disadvantaged racial or ethnic group, and usually member of a minority, who is successfully accepted by others as a different race or ethnicity, especially in the case of a person of mixed race or ethnicity being accepted as a member of the racial or ethnic majority. It is usually used derisively and is not considered politically correct to aspire or attempt to pass, or to accuse another person of aspiring or attempting to pass. The term has, therefore, b ...

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Passing, Passing - Sex, Passing - Race, Passing - Literature, Passing - Ability

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