The LGBT community is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender individuals united by a common culture and social movements. These communities generally celebrate pride,diversity,individuality,and sexuality. LGBT activists and sociologists see LGBT community-building as a counterweight to heterosexism,homophobia,biphobia,transphobia,sexualism,and conformist pressures that exist in the larger society. The term pride or sometimes gay pride expresses the LGBT community's identity and collective strength;pride parades provide both a prime example of the use and a demonstration of the general meaning of the term. The LGBT community is diverse in political affiliation. Not all people who are lesbian,gay,bisexual,or transgender consider themselves part of the LGBT community.
GLSEN is an American education organization working to end discrimination,harassment,and bullying based on sexual orientation,gender identity and gender expression and to prompt LGBT cultural inclusion and awareness in K-12 schools. Founded in 1990 in Boston,Massachusetts,the organization is now headquartered in New York City and has an office of public policy based in Washington,D.C.
LGBT culture is a culture shared by lesbian,gay,bisexual,transgender,and queer individuals. It is sometimes referred to as queer culture,while the term gay culture may be used to mean either "LGBT culture" or homosexual culture specifically.
LGBT stereotypes are stereotypes about lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are based on their sexual orientations,gender identities,or gender expressions. Stereotypical perceptions may be acquired through interactions with parents,teachers,peers and mass media,or,more generally,through a lack of firsthand familiarity,resulting in an increased reliance on generalizations.
CLAGS:The Center for LGBTQ Studies was founded in 1991 by professor Martin Duberman as the first university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical,cultural,and political issues of lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) individuals and communities. Housed at the Graduate Center,CUNY,CLAGS sponsors public programs and conferences,offers fellowships to individual scholars,and functions as a conduit of information. It also serves as a national center for the promotion of scholarship that fosters social change.
Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree','cheerful',or 'bright and showy'.
Bisexual erasure,also called bisexual invisibility,is the tendency to ignore,remove,falsify,or re-explain evidence of bisexuality in history,academia,the news media,and other primary sources.
Microaggression is a term used for commonplace verbal,behavioral or environmental slights,whether intentional or unintentional,that communicate hostile,derogatory,or negative attitudes toward stigmatized or culturally marginalized groups. The term was coined by Harvard University psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce in 1970 to describe insults and dismissals which he regularly witnessed non-black Americans inflicting on African Americans. By the early 21st century,use of the term was applied to the casual disparagement of any socially marginalized group,including LGBT people,poor people,and disabled people. Psychologist Derald Wing Sue defines microaggressions as "brief,everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership". The persons making the comments may be otherwise well-intentioned and unaware of the potential impact of their words.
Various topics in medicine relate to lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender people. According to the US Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA),besides HIV/AIDS,issues related to LGBT health include breast and cervical cancer,hepatitis,mental health,substance use disorders,alcohol use,tobacco use,depression,access to care for transgender persons,issues surrounding marriage and family recognition,conversion therapy,refusal clause legislation,and laws that are intended to "immunize health care professionals from liability for discriminating against persons of whom they disapprove."
Research has found that attempted suicide rates and suicidal ideation among lesbian,gay,bisexual,transgender (LGBT) youth are significantly higher than among the general population.
Racism is a concern for many in the Western lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities,with members of racial,ethnic,and national minorities reporting having faced discrimination from other LGBT people.
Kara Tucina Olidge,Ph.D. is a scholar,arts and educational administrator and the executive director of the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University. The Amistad Research Center is the nation's oldest,largest and most comprehensive independent archive specializing in the history of African Americans and other ethnic minorities. Prior to this position,she was the deputy director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,a branch of the New York Public Library based in Harlem. The Schomburg is one of the world's leading research facilities dedicated to the history of the African diaspora. Prior to joining the Schomburg in 2012,Olidge was the director of the Hetrick-Martin Institute,a nonprofit organization serving lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender youth in Newark,NJ. Olidge specializes in art and educational administration and leadership and has led educational institutions and community-based organizations.
Homophobia in ethnic minority communities is any negative prejudice or form of discrimination in ethnic minority communities worldwide towards people who identify as–or are perceived as being–lesbian,gay,bisexual or transgender (LGBT),known as homophobia. This may be expressed as antipathy,contempt,prejudice,aversion,hatred,irrational fear,and is sometimes related to religious beliefs. While religion can have a positive function in many LGB Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities,it can also play a role in supporting homophobia.
Filipino American LGBT Studies is a field of studies that focus on the issues met by people at the intersection of Filipino American and lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender identities.
Rev. Trinity Ordoña is a lesbian Filipino-American college teacher,activist,community organizer,and ordained minister currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is notable for her grassroots work on intersectional social justice. Her activism includes issues of voice and visibility for Asian/Pacific gay,lesbian,bisexual,transgender and queer individuals and their families,Lesbians of color,and survivors of sexual abuse. Her works include her dissertation Coming Out Together:an ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander queer women's and transgendered people's movement of San Francisco, as well as various interviews and articles published in anthologies like Filipino Americans:Transformation and Identity and Asian/Pacific Islander American Women:A Historical Anthology. She co-founded Asian and Pacific Islander Family Pride (APIFP),which "[sustains] support networks for API families with members who are LGBTQ," founded Healing for Change,"a CCSF student organization that sponsors campus-community healing events directed to survivors of violence and abuse," and is currently an instructor in the Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual and Transgender Studies Department at City College of San Francisco.
Victoria Clarke is a UK-based chartered psychologist and an Associate Professor in Qualitative and Critical Psychology at the University of the West England,Bristol. Her work focuses on qualitative psychology and critical psychology,and her background and training is in the fields of women studies,feminist psychology,LGBTQ psychology,and qualitative methods. She is particularly known for her ongoing collaboration with Professor Virginia Braun around qualitative methods. Braun and Clarke developed a widely cited approach to thematic analysis in 2006 and have published extensively around thematic analysis since then. They have also collaborated on an award-winning qualitative research textbook and more recently have published around the qualitative story completion method with the Story Completion Research Group.
LGBT psychology is a field of psychology of surrounding the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals,in the particular the diverse range of psychological perspectives and experiences of these individuals. It covers different aspects such as identity development including the coming out process,parenting and family practices and support for LGBTQ+ individuals,as well as issues of prejudice and discrimination involving the LGBT community.
LGBT youth vulnerability is the increased social vulnerability that lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) youth face compared to their heterosexual and cisgender peers. Due to this increased vulnerability,there are notable differences in the mental and physical health risks tied to the social interactions of LGBT youth compared to the social interactions of heterosexual youth. Youth of the LGBT community experience greater encounters with not only health risks,but also violence and bullying,due to their sexual orientation,self-identification,and lack of support from institutions in society.
LGBT erasure refers to the tendency to remove lesbian,gay,bisexual,transgender,asexual and queer groups or people intentionally or unintentionally from record,or to dismiss or downplay their significance. This erasure can be found in a number of written and oral texts,including popular and scholarly texts.
Margaret Rosario is a clinical psychologist who studies the development of sexual identity and health disparities associated with sexual orientation. Rosario was President of the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 44,the Society for Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity,from 2017-2018. Rosario received the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Ethnic Minority Issues in 2008. and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award in 2021.
