Outline of LGBTQ topics

Last updated October 08, 2025

The following outline offers an overview and guide to topics about LGBTQ people.

Sexuality

Sexual orientation types

Topics

By region

By culture

Identities

Sexual identity topics

Sex and physiology

Romance

Practices

Society

Education and the LGBTQ community

Homosexuality

Lesbianism

Adoption, parenting, and same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage (SSM) by region

Same-sex partnerships, and immigration

People topics

Themes

Language

Culture

By country

By city

History

LGBTQ history

By country

Timelines

Religion

Rights

By major region

LGBTQ rights by country or territory

By area

Ideology

Lists

Lists of LGBTQ fictional characters

Anti-LGBTQ topics

AIDS stigma – prejudice against people with HIV+ and AIDS
Amatonormativity – is the set of societal assumptions that everyone prospers with an exclusive romantic relationship
Anti-LGBTQ hate groups
Anti-homosexual attitudes – societal attitudes against homosexuality
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric – themes, catchphrases, and slogans which have been used to condemn or demean LGBTQ people
- Homophobic propaganda – propaganda based on negative and homophobia towards homosexual, putatively homosexual and sometimes other non-heterosexual or non-cisgender people
- LGBTQ grooming conspiracy theory - far-right conspiracy theory that those in the LGBTQ community and allies are either grooming children or enabling grooming
- Rapid-onset gender dysphoria - the scientifically unsupported hypothesis that adolescents identity as transgender or experience gender dysphoria due to social contagion.
Cairo 52 – in Egypt, fifty-two men charged with "habitual practice of debauchery" and "obscene behaviour" under Article 9c of Law No. 10 of 1961
Cissexism or cisnormativity– bias in favor of people who identify with the gender assigned to them at birth
- Transphobia – antipathy toward transgender people
- Anti-gender movement – movement which seeks to discredit gender in favor of assigned sex
- Anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom
- TERF – acronym for Trans-exclusionary radical feminism
- Trans-exclusionary radical feminism or Gender-critical feminism, anti-trans movement
- Transmisogyny – antipathy toward trans women
- Trans panic defense – a legal strategy in which a defendant claims they acted in a state of violent, temporary insanity
Criminalization of homosexuality
Criminalization of gender-affirming care
Discrimination against gay men
Discrimination against LGBTQ people
Discrimination against intersex people
Discrimination against lesbians
Discrimination against non-binary gender people
Drag panic - a moral panic that drag is harmful to minors
Ego-dystonic sexual orientation – mental disorder of having a sexual orientation or an attraction that is at odds with one's idealized self-image
Ex-gay movement – people who once identified as homosexual or bisexual, but who no longer assert that identity
Heteronormativity – lifestyle norms that holds that people fall into distinct and complementary genders with natural roles in life
Heterosexism – attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of heterosexuality or heterosexual people
- Homophobia – antipathy toward homosexual people
- Lesbophobia – antipathy toward lesbians
- Biphobia – antipathy toward bisexual people
- Panphobia – Dislike or prejudice against pansexuality or pansexual people.
- Acephobia – antipathy toward asexual people
- Arophobia - antipathy toward aromantic people.
Intersex medical intervention human rights issues
Queer erasure – tendency to intentionally or unintentionally remove LGBTQ groups or people from record, or downplay their significance
- Conversion therapy – pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Censorship of LGBTQ issues
- Anti-LGBTQ curriculum laws in the U.S. - laws limiting the inclusion of LGBTQ subjects in public schools.
- Book bans due to LGBTQ content in the U.S.
- Intersex erasure
- Lesbian erasure
- Bisexual erasure
- Straightwashing – portraying LGB or otherwise queer characters in fiction as heterosexual
- Capital punishment for homosexuality
- Gay gang murders – a series of suspected anti-LGBTQ hate crimes perpetrated by large gangs of youths in Sydney, between 1970 and 2010
- Anti-gay purges in Chechnya – forced disappearances, secret abductions, imprisonment, torture and extrajudicial killing by authorities targeting persons based on their perceived sexual orientation
LGBTQ rights opposition – opposition to legal rights for LGBTQ people
- LGBTQ-free zone
- 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
  - Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration
- 21st-century anti-trans movement in the United Kingdom
LGBTQ stereotypes
Violence against LGBTQ people – violence motivated by sexuality or gender identity
- Corrective rape - rape motivated against the victim's perceived sexual orientation or gender non-conformity; it is often intended make the victim heterosexual
- Gay bashing – verbal or physical abuse against a person who is perceived by the aggressor to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual
- Gay panic defense – a legal defence for assault or homicide alleging a sexual advance by the victim against the assailant
- List of people killed for being transgender
- Trans bashing – the act of victimizing a person physically, sexually, or verbally because they are transgender or transsexual

References

↑ Julia Goicichea (August 16, 2017). "Why New York City Is a Major Destination for LGBT Travelers". The Culture Trip. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
↑ Eli Rosenberg (June 24, 2016). "Stonewall Inn Named National Monument, a First for the Gay Rights Movement". The New York Times. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
↑ "Workforce Diversity The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562". National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
↑ "Definition of LGBT". Collins Dictionary. Retrieved September 4, 2024.

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[GayGreenwichVillage1-1] Julia Goicichea (August 16, 2017). "Why New York City Is a Major Destination for LGBT Travelers". The Culture Trip. Retrieved February 2, 2019.

[GayGreenwichVillage2-2] Eli Rosenberg (June 24, 2016). "Stonewall Inn Named National Monument, a First for the Gay Rights Movement". The New York Times. Retrieved June 25, 2016.

[GayGreenwichVillage3-3] "Workforce Diversity The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562". National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved April 21, 2016.

[4] "Definition of LGBT". Collins Dictionary. Retrieved September 4, 2024.

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Outline of LGBTQ topics

Contents

Sexuality

Sexual orientation types

Topics

By region

By culture

Identities

Sexual identity topics

Gender identity topics

Sex and physiology

Romance

Expression

Practices

Society

Homosexuality

Lesbianism

Adoption, parenting, and same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage (SSM) by region

SSM in Canada

SSM in Mexico

SSM in the UK

SSM in the US

Same-sex partnerships, and immigration

People topics

Themes

Language

Culture

By country

By city

By US region

LGBTQ media

Print

Moving image

History

By country

In the US

Timelines

Religion

Rights

By major region

By area

Ideology

Bibliography

Lists

Lists of LGBTQ fictional characters

Anti-LGBTQ topics

Other topics

See also

References