Romantic Orientation- Who you are romantically attracted to meaning wanting to be in a romantic relationship with and is unrelated to sexual attraction.
Sexual Orientation- Who you are sexually attracted to meaning who you get turned on by or who you would want to engage in sexual behaviors with.
Pronouns
~He/him/His (Masculine Pronouns). She/Her/Hers (Feminine Pronouns). They/Them/Theirs (Neutral Pronouns). Ze/Zir/Zirs (Neutral Pronouns). Ze/Hir/Hirs (Neutral pronouns)~
Sexuality
Heterosexual: Considered 'The Norm', when one gender is attracted to the opposite.
Homosexual/Gay: When men are attracted to other men.
Lesbian: When a woman, is attracted to other women.
Bisexual: When a person is attracted to both genders, being male or female. This however, should not be considered as 'half straight-half gay', as their personal spectrum varies. One may lean for girls more than boys, or vice versa.
Bicurious: When a person is attracted to the opposite sex but is open to experimenting with the same sex. (Can be vice versa).
Polysexual: When someone is attracted to many sexualities/genders but not all.
Monosexual: Being only attracted to one gender.
Pansexual: Attracted to all genders/sexualities.
Skoliosexual: Attraction to Non-binary and transgender/sexual people.
Transvestite: Attraction to people who dress as the opposite gender, or the person themselves dress as the opposite gender; Drag Queens and Kings.
Allosexual/Zedsexual: When your not asexual but experience attraction to at least one gender.
Questioning: When someone is questioning their gender, identity or sexuality.
Asexual: When you experience no attraction to anyone.
Grey Asexual/Aromantic: Very rarely finds attraction in people.
Androsexual: Attracted to masculine representation.
Gynosexual: Attracted to feminine representation.
Pomosexual: Rejects labels and defines themselves however they want too.
Autosexual: Attracted to themself, and them only.
Omnisexual; When your attraction to people will change instantly in how the person feels.
Sapiosexual: Attracted to smart and intelligent people, disregard of gender.
Queer: The umbrella term: anyone who identifies as an LGBT+ member but does not want to label oneself 100%
Demisexual: When you fell attracted to people you build strong connections too.
Erasure: Ignoring the existence of genders, sexualities, identities of the whole spectrum.
Monoamorous: When you only have one relationship at a time.
Polyamorous: When your open to having multiple relationships at once.
Perioriented: When your sexual and romantic attraction targets the same gender/part of the spectrum.
Varioriented: When your sexual and romantic attraction targets different genders or different parts of the spectrum.
Gender & Sex
Cishet: When someone identifies with the gender their born with, and is heterosexual. (Often used as a slur)
Sex: Assigned gender, or the gender of your sexual reproduction organs.
Gender: The spectrum of identity. Male-female and way more than just those two.
Transgender: When you identify as the opposite gender.
Transexual: When you have Gender Reassignment Surgery to physically change to the opposite gender/sex.
MTF or FTM: When a man becomes a woman, or a woman becomes a man.
Binary: Male and Female; both ends of the gender spectrum.
Non-Binary/Genderqueer: Another umbrella term; gender is placed on the spectrum but not specific, neither male or female.
Gender-fluid: Changing between genders or fluctuating gender identity.
Agender/Genderless/Gendervoid/Neutrois: Has no gender.
Bigender: When someone identifies as two genders, (E.g: Male & Female, Male & Genderfluid, Non-Binary and Agender)
Polygender/Multigender: Identifies as multiple genders.
Gender Apathetic: When you don't have a gender and do not care less on how people perceive your gender.
Intergender: Somewhere between the Binary (gender) spectrum.
Demigender: (Demiboy/Demigirl); When you fit certain parts or different genders. (E.g; Male sexual organs but feminine and homosexual)
Greygender: Someone with a weak identification of themselves.
Aporagender: Someone has strong identification of themselves.
Maverique: A non-binary gender that exists on the orthodox social bound of gender.
Novigender: A gender that's not simple to explain, no single word or phrase.
Transitioning: The journey from becoming the other gender. (Transsexuals)
Intersex/Hermaphrodite: When someone is born with genitals, gonads and/or chromosomes that do not match up to male or female.
Dyadic: Genitals, gonads and chromosomes that match up to a gender.
Social/Body Dysphoria: Discomfort in oneself; either with different groups or gender.
Ally: A cishet person who supports the rights, freedom of LGBTQI+ people and the community.
Other Terms
Closeted: When someone realises their sexuality or gender but has not shared this with friends, family or society.
Coming Out: The process where you share and explain your sexuality and gender.
Out: When society knows your LGBT+ and your proud!!!
Always be proud of yourself!!
