Typically a non-LGBTQ person who supports and stands up for the rights of LGBTQ people.

Refers to people whose sex assigned at birth corresponds to their gender identity.

Refers to people whose gender identity is different from cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth.

Person's behavior, mannerisms, interests, and appearance that are associated with gender in a particular cultural context, specifically with the categories of femininity or masculinity.

Irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals.

Having emotional, romantic, or sexual attractions to both men and women.

Not limited in sexual attraction with regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity.

Sexual attraction to someone who is the same sex.

Various conditions that lead to development of physical sex characteristics (i.e. chromosomal makeup, external genitalia, internal reproductive organs)

A phrase used to refer to several aspects of lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons’ experiences; self-awareness of same sex-attractions; the telling of one or a few people about these attractions; widespread disclosure of same-sex attractions; and identification with the lesbian, gay, and bisexual community.

Refers to the socially constructed roles, behavior, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for boys and men or girls and women.

A term some people use who identify their gender as falling outside the binary constructs of “male” and “female.”

Refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female, or something else.

A term used to describe your pattern of emotional, romantic or sexual attraction. May include attraction to the same gender (homosexuality), a gender different than your own (heterosexuality), both men and women (bisexuality), all genders (pansexual), or neither (asexuality).