LGBT facts for kids
LGBT is an acronym connected with human sexuality.
It is a word which has been used since the 1990s, and was a change from the previous acronym LGB or the group of words gay community, because many people in the LGBT community did not think that the group of words accurately described everyone it was referring to.
It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual or non-cisgender, instead of exclusively to people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
To recognize this inclusion, a popular variant, LGBTQ, adds the letter Q for those who identify as queer or are questioning their sexual or gender identity.
Those who add intersex people to LGBT groups may use the extended initialism LGBTI. These two initialisms are sometimes combined to form the terms LGBTIQ or LGBT+ to encompass spectrums of sexuality and gender. Other common variants also exist, such as LGBTQIA+, with the A standing for "asexual".
The acronyms have become more normal to use now and have been taken up by most gender identity-related community centres in America, the English-speaking countries and in other countries where the acronym means something in their languages, such as France and Argentina.
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Images for kids
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The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement and an icon of LGBT culture, is adorned with rainbow pride flags.
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LGBT publications, pride parades, and related events, such as this stage at Bologna Pride 2008 in Italy, increasingly drop the LGBT initialism instead of regularly adding new letters, and dealing with issues of placement of those letters within the new title.
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2010 pride parade in Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, which uses the LGBTIQ initialism
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People gathering at the Senate Square, Helsinki, right before the 2011 Helsinki Pride parade started
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Original Rainbow Pride Flag in San Francisco, designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978
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See also
In Spanish: LGBT para niños
