What is LGBT and how does it stand for?
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Whether we like it or not, society is forced to acknowledge the fact that in addition to heterosexuals, there are people with very unconventional sexual orientations. Moreover, they have created their own communities, have special symbols, their own views on life and proudly call themselves LGBT representatives. This acronym is a concern — we address it in this document.
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What does LGBT stand for?
4 capital letters that are suitable to represent all representatives of sexual minorities. The decoding of each of these letters shows the following
L — Lesbian, i. e. a woman who is sexually interested in a member of the same sex.
G-gay, i. e. a person who has a sexual preference for men.
B — Bisexuals, bisexual people who are attracted to people of both the opposite and non-opposite sex.
T-people with transgender and transsexual orientation, i. e. all people who disagree with their gender.
Often these letters Q are accompanied by another one. This means all representatives of kilculture and all sexual minorities who have not fully decided on their identity. For these reasons, it may also appear next to the LGBT acronym. A “+” sign will appear.
What does LGBT mean?
The term was borrowed from the British and became widely popular in the mid-1990s. A few years later, LGBT activists began adding it to common abbreviations and other letters.
For example, the letter “a” means belonging to the community of asexual people or the community of prisoners as such. And the letter “i” stands for people in the sexual interface. The letter “S” denotes people who prefer to experiment, and the letter “N” indicates that this LGBT representative is HIV-positive. Another simplified version can be found to cover LGBTETC, which represents all sexual minorities. Since transgender people are fundamentally different from gays and lesbians, many to this day consider the acronym LGBT to be completely incorrect.
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The topic of gender and sexual minorities has always been touched upon in one form or another. And not only in music and cinema, but also in literature. Some of the most.
As befits a community, the LGBT community boasts its own distinctive symbols. Namely:
Let”s examine the meaning of the LGBT flag in more detail.
LGBT flag
Many wonder why the rainbow is the inspiration for the LGBT flag. To answer this question, we”ll delve a little into history. According to one version (and it should be noted that there are several), actress Judy Garland played a key role in the creation of the LGBT flag. She was one of the first active participants in the struggle for the rights of sexual minorities.
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The flag was designed by Gilbert Baker, an avid gay activist. At the request of his close friend, the later murdered Harvey Milk, he created a flag for people of non-traditional sexual orientation.
According to another version, Baker “spied” the idea for his flag from the then-popular hippie movement, one of whose prominent proponents was Allen Ginsberg. Yes, he was also gay. Baker simply added a few more stripes to the flag.
As a result, LGBT representatives received their own flag, each of whose eight stripes has a special meaning. Later, two colors of the original flag (pink and turquoise) were removed. In 1985, the final version of the flag, featuring six colors, was adopted.
- Red symbolizes life energy and fire. Orange is the color of health.
- Yellow is the bright sun.
- Green is nature.
- Blue is inseparable from art and peace.
- Purple is the color of willpower.
- LGBT in Russia
LGBT in Russia
According to our legislation, they lack the ability and right to officially legalize their relationship or openly disseminate their views. However much they might want to, such couples cannot adopt a child.
LGBT+ community websites are regularly subject to all sorts of blocking. Therefore, the only thing left for homosexuals in the country is to look with envy at the next “Rainbow Pride” or the appearance of a Western European “brotherhood.”
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