LGBT+ TIME

So, you think you may be something beside cis and/or hetrosexual. Or maybe you're trying to educate yourself. Either way you've come to the right place.

Sexualities

Before anything starts we just want to make COMPLETELY clear that there are not just two sexualities. Sexuality is a very wide spectrum.

HETROSEXUAL: To feel sexual attraction only towards the opposite gender. Generally accepted as males only feeling attraction towards females and vice versa.

Homosexual: To be sexually attracted only to the same gender. Generally accepted as males attracted to males and females to females.

Bisexual: To be sexually attracted to two or more genders.

Polysexual: Attracted to most but not all genders.

Pansexual: To be sexually attracted to people of all genders.

Asexual: To not feel sexual attraction.

DemiSexual: To only be sexually attracted to people you form a strong emotional bond with.

ANDROSEXUAL: To be sexually attracted to the apperance of masculinity, not necessarily males.

GYNESEXUAL: To be sexually attracted to the apperance of femininity, not necessarily females.

SKOLIOSEXUAL: To be sexually attracted to genderqueer and transgender people.

AUTOSEXUAL: A person who is sexually attracted to themselves.

POMOSEXUAL: A person who doesn't identify with conventional sexualities.

MONOSEXUAL: A person who is only sexually attracted to one gender.

POLYAMOROUS: A person that is open to/has a relationship with more than one person at any one time consenually.

MONOAMOROUS: A person that is open to/has a relationship with only one person at any one time.

Please visit asexuality for more information on asexuality or itspronouncedmetrosexual for more information on genders and sexualities we have not mentioned

Types of attraction:

SEXUAL: Sexual attraction is desiring sexual contact with the person(s).

Romantic: Romantic attraction is desiring a romantic relationship with the person(s).

Platonic: Platonic attraction is desiring a (stronger) friendship with the person(s).

Sensual: Sensual attraction is desiring physical contact with the person(s).

Aesthetic: Aestetic attraction is appreciating the features of the person(s).

Termanology.

Cis: A person who is cissex, meaning they identify as the same gender as the body they were born into.

Trans*: A person who is transgender, meaning they identify as a different gender than the body they were born into.

Gender Expression: How a person expresses themselves; eg. feminine, masculine, androgynous (presenting as genderless)

gENDERS

Female

Male

NonBinary- An umbrella term for anyone that doesn't identify as male or female.

Agender

Bigender

Demigender

Trigender

Pangender

Genderfluid

For more genders please visit

NonBinary.Org

THE ABC'S OF LGBT

This playlist is called the ABC's of LGBT by Ashley Mardell, a queer, gender confused YouTuber who uses they/them pronouns. They ask other Youtubers to collab with them to ensure what they're saying isn't just their own opinion. They have also written a book on this subject and made it free to download.

LGBT SHORT FILMS

This is a YouTube playlist of various short films about the LGBT community.

Helpful links

The Trans* pride flag