Who Do You Love?: Understanding Sexual Orientation
Who Are You?: Understanding Gender
Express Yourself!
No Binaries for Me!
Tricky Terms
100
A woman who self-identifies as having an emotional, sexual, and/or relational attraction to other women.
What is a lesbian?
100
A person’s internal sense of their gender (i.e., do I feel male, female, masculine, feminine, both, neither, etc.?)
What is gender identity?
100
The ways a person presents their gender, through their actions, dress, and demeanor.
What is gender expression?
100
A term used by some individuals who identify as neither entirely male nor entirely female.
What is genderqueer? (Also accepted: non-binary, agender, etc.)
100
The fear and hate of the homosexuality and/or of homosexuals (or lesbian, gay, bisexual, etc. people)
What is homophobia?
200
A man who self-identifies as having an emotional, relational, and/or sexual attraction to other men. May be used as an umbrella term (re: "____ rights movement") and sometimes refers to women.
What is gay?
200
How one identifies in terms of who they are attracted to emotionally, sexually, and/or relationally.
What is sexual orientation?
200
To recognize one's sexual orientation, gender identity, or sex identity, and to be open about it with oneself or others.
What is coming out?
200
The idea that there are only two genders--male and female--and that a person must fit into one of those two genders.
What is the gender binary?
200
A person who generally does not feel sexual attraction or desire to any group or people.
What is asexual?
300
Traditional definition: A person who self-identifies as having an emotional, sexual, relational attraction to men and women Updated definition: A person who self-identifies as having an emotional, sexual, relational attraction to only two genders.
What is bisexual?
300
A person whose gender identity and/or expression is different from that typically associated with their assigned sex at birth.
What is transgender?
300
A term for people who dress in clothing traditionally or stereotypically worn by another gender but who generally have no intent to live full-time as a different gender.
What is cross-dresser?
300
Gender neutral pronouns used to identify someone who does not fit into a gender box of male or female.
What is ze/hir? (also accepted: they/them/theirs, etc.)
300
The assumption--in individuals, systems, or institutions--that everyone is heterosexual and that heterosexuality is normal and superior to homosexuality and bisexuality.
What is heteronormativity?
400
A term used to refer to someone who is "not heterosexual"; sometimes used as a slur, this term was reclaimed by the LGBT community in the 1980s/90s
What is queer?
400
A term used to describe an individual whose gender identity aligns with the gender they were assigned at birth.
What is cisgender?
400
Generally used to refer to men who dress as women for the purpose of entertaining others at bars, clubs, or other events.
What is drag queen?
400
A term used to to describe someone who self-identifies as having emotional, sexual, relational attractions to others regardless of gender.
What is pansexual? (also accepted: bisexual)
400
Arrangement of society used to benefit one group at the expense of another through the use of language, media education, economics, and religion.
What is institutional oppression?
500
Individual who may be experiencing lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender feelings or urges but has not yet identified with their sexual orientation or gender identity.
What is questioning?
500
This person is born with sex chromosomes, external genitalia, or an internal reproductive system that is not considered "standard" for either male or female.
What is intersex?
500
Used to refer to women who dress as men for the purpose of entertaining others at bars, clubs, or other events.
What is drag king?
500
Designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, this was created to be a symbol of the diversity in the LGBTQIA community.
What is the rainbow flag?
500
Negative feelings arising from some aspect of gender experience; term used to diagnose transgender individuals who are seeking medical treatment.