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Non-heterosexual is more fully inclusive of people who not only identify as other than heterosexual but also as other than gay, lesbian and bisexual. [16] Some common examples include same gender loving , men who have sex with men (MSM) , women who have sex with women (WSW), bi-curious and questioning .
Gender roles in non-heterosexual communities are a topic of much debate; some people believe traditional, heterosexual gender roles are often erroneously enforced on non-heterosexual relationships by means of heteronormative culture and attitudes towards these non-conformative relationships.
Pro-gay implies no concern for straight people; Activist is hyperbole or carries negative connotations; Implies homosexuality alone when what is being described in non-heterosexuality and therefore excludes bisexuals; Used as pejorative, and in propaganda by people opposed to equal rights for non-heterosexuals; Civil rights proponent(s) Pro
[9] Not all gender-variant people identify as transgender, and not all transgender people identify as gender-variant – many identify simply as men or women. [5] Gender identity is one's internal sense of their own gender ; while most people have a gender identity of a boy or a man, or a girl or a woman, gender identity for other people is a ...
I have been so culturally queer my whole life,” said sexually straight Darren Criss, the 37-year-old former star of Glee.The cisgender actor and musician was speaking at the Chicago Comic and ...
In a telephone survey of 4,193 male residents of New York City, 91.3% of men identified as straight, 3.7% as gay, and 1.2% as bisexual. 1.7% said they were in doubt or were not sure and 2.1% declined to answer. 12.4% of men who responded to the sexual orientation question, reported sex exclusively with men in the 12 months prior to the survey ...
During arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in this week's major transgender rights case, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor told the lawyer defending Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical care ...
[21] [22] [23] Transgender is also an umbrella term because, it includes trans men and trans women who may be binary or non-binary, and also includes genderqueer people (whose identities are not exclusively masculine or feminine, but may, for example, be bigender, pangender, genderfluid, etc.).