Title: <scp>LGBT</scp>/queer sexuality, history of, North America
Abstract:This entry reviews the LGBT/queer initialism: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. A chronology of the expansion of this initialism in the United States to include more sexual and gendered ...This entry reviews the LGBT/queer initialism: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. A chronology of the expansion of this initialism in the United States to include more sexual and gendered identities is presented. The varied uses of the initialism for political and social organizing are discussed, such as: LGBT/queer, LGBTQ, LGBT, GLBT, GLB, LGBTQIA, LGBTQ2, LGBTQII, and LGBTTTI. The use of these identity terms in Mexico and Canada is reviewed along with relevant history contextualizing these categories.Read More
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-04-16
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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