QUEER
DICTIONARY
A comprehensive list of queer terminology
CONTENTS OF THIS PRESENTATION
SEXUAL
ORIENTATIONS
01
Brief explanations of sexual orientations
ABROSEXUAL
Someone whose sexuality is fluid or changeable.
Example: One day they may identify as asexual, the next as gay, and the next as pansexual. Abrosexual people can fluctuate between all sexualities, or just a few. The timing between fluctuations can also vary.
ACEFLUX
Someone whose Sexual Orientation fluctuates but generally stays on the Asexual Spectrum. They may feel strongly Asexual one day, and less so on another day.
ACEJUMP
Someone who is normally allosexual, but occasionally experiences rare, sudden, and intense spikes of total or near total asexuality for a short amount of time, before returning just as suddenly to one's normal amounts of allosexuality.
ACESPIKE
Someone who usually feels little to no sexual attraction, but occasionally has rare and sudden spikes of sexual attraction.
ACHILLEAN
Men or men-aligned people who are sexually attracted to other men or men-aligned people. Also known as men loving men (MLM).
AEGOSEXUAL
Someone who enjoys the concept of sex and may have sexual fantasies or enjoy sexual media but feels little to no sexual attraction in real life and may not desire a relationship.
Also known as Anegosexual or Autochorissexual.
ALLOSEXUAL
Someone who experiences sexual attraction and does not identify on the Asexual spectrum.
AMBIAMOROUS
Someone who is open to both monoamorous and polyamorous relationships with little to no preference for either.
AMID
Someone who isn’t strictly Aromantic or Asexual, but is on the spectrum of both Asexuality and Aromanticism.
ANDROFLEXIBLE
Someone who is mostly sexually attracted to men but very occasionally feels sexual attraction towards other genders, or someone who always feels sexual attraction to masculinity but occasionally also towards other gender alignments.
ANDROSEXUAL
(ANDROPHILLIC)
Someone who is primarily sexually attracted to masculinity. Mostly used by people who identify outside of the gender binary as unlike terms like gay or lesbian, they refer only to the presentation of the person someone is attracted to and not the person themselves.
APOTHISEXUAL
(SEX REPULSED)
Someone who is repulsed by the idea of engaging in sexual activity, or just the idea of sex in general.
ARCFLUX
Someone whose attitude towards sex fluctuates, even off of the Asexula Spectrum. Also known as sex-oscillating or sex-ambivalent.
AROACE
Short for Aromantic Asexual, AroAce means someone who experiences little or no romantic and sexual attraction.
AROACESPIKE
Someone who usually feels little to no romantic and sexual attraction, but occasionally has rare and sudden spikes of romantic and or sexual attraction.
ASEXUAL
Someone who does not experience sexual attraction. They may experience romantic and/or aesthetic attraction, but not sexual attraction.
ATHENIAN
(MINERVAN)
Someone who does not experience at least one type of attraction. Including, but not limited to, Asexuality, Asensuality, and Aromanticism.
AUTIASEXUAL
(AUTIACE)
Someone who feels that their autism has an affect on their sexual orientation or lack of sexual attraction. The identity is not to say that someone’s sexuality is autism, but that someone's identity is deeply affected and interconnected with their autism.
BELLUSSEXUAL
Someone who has interest in certain sexual actions, the aesthetic of sexual relationships, and or aspects of sexual relationships, but does not feel sexual attraction and does not want a sexual relationship.
BICURIOUS
Someone who is curious about or open to engage in relationships with people of genders different from those to which one is usually attracted. This person is learning about their sexuality and may or may not be Bisexual.
BISEXUAL
Someone who experiences sexual attraction to more than one gender and is inclusive of all genders. Bi people can be attracted to people across the gender spectrum.
Bisexuality is an umbrella term in the community including other multisexualities such as pansexual, omnisexual, etc.
BORIC
(BINARIC)
Anyone who is sexually attracted to binary individuals or who experiences non-straight sexual attraction to binary individuals. Someone who is sexually attracted to men and or women but is not straight. Boric people can also be sexuallly attracted to non-binary people, as the label is not mutually exclusive
CAEDSEXUAL
(CAEDOSEXUAL)
Someone who used to be Allosexual, but is no longer due to a traumatic event. They may remain Caedsexual for the rest of their life, or eventually shift back towards their original or a new sexuality.
CETEROSEXUAL
(SKOLIOSEXUAL)
Someone who is sexually attracted to non-binary and genderqueer people or androgynous people of various or all assigned genders at birth.
COEOSEXUAL
Someone who will only experience sexual attraction to someone if they developed that feeling upon meeting them the first time. Coesexual individuals can still become attracted to those they know, but it is more common for them to develop sexual feelings to those they don't know or have just met.
CUPIOSEXUAL
Someone who experiences little to no sexual attraction, but desires a sexual relationship with another person, or to engage in sexual behavior.
DEMISEXUAL
Someone who only experiences sexual attraction to someone once they have formed a romantic or platonic relationship with them.
DREAMSEXUAL
Someone who only feels sexual attraction during dreams, but rarely or never when awake. Also known as Sognaresexual, Yumesexual, or Somniosexual.
ENBIAN
A non-binary person who is sexually attracted to other non-binary people.
FICTOSEXUAL
Someone who experiences exclusive, near exclusive, or primary sexual attraction toward fictional characters. They may be attracted to one character, genders separate from what they normally are, or are only attracted to others in a fictional sense.
FINSEXUAL
The exclusive sexual attraction to those who are Feminine in Nature (FIN). This means Finsexual people are attracted to women, feminine aligned and/or feminine presenting non-binary people, and potentially feminine men.
FRAYSEXUAL
(IGNOTASEXUAL)
Someone who is only sexually attracted to people who they have not formed a strong emotional bond with yet. As the bond is formed, the attraction fades.
GRAYSEXUAL
Someone who experiences limited sexual attraction. They experience sexual attraction very rarely or with very low intensity. Also known as Gray-Ace or Grayasexual.
GRAYAROACE
Someone who is both Grayromantic and Graysexual, such that they experience romantic and sexual attraction rarely or only under specific circumstances. Also known as Grayrose.
GYNEFLEXIBLE
Someone who is mostly sexually attracted to femininity but very occasionally feels sexual attraction towards people of other presentations and genders.
GYNESEXUAL
Someone who is primarily sexually attracted to femininity. Mostly used by people who identify outside of the gender binary as unlike terms like gay or lesbian, they refer only to the presentation of the person someone is attracted to and not the person themselves. Also known as Gynephillic or Gynosexual.
HETEROFLEXIBLE
Someone who identifies as mostly Heterosexual but sometimes experiences sexual attraction to their own gender.
HETEROSEXUAL
Someone who experiences sexual attraction strictly to people of genders other than their own.
HOMOFLEXIBLE
Someone who identifies as mostly Homosexual but sometimes experiences sexual attraction to other genders.
HOMOSEXUAL
Someone who is attracted to the same gender as themselves. The rainbow flag is also used to represent the LGBTQIA+ community as a whole.
LESBIAN
Non-men who only experience sexual attraction to other people who are not men. This includes women and feminine-aligned nonbinary people who do not identify as male.
LITHOSEXUAL
(AKOISEXUAL)
Someone who may experience sexual attraction but does not want it reciprocated.
LUNARIC
Someone who is exclusively sexually attracted to women and female-aligned non-binary people.
MARSIC
A non-binary person who is exclusively sexually attracted to men and male-aligned non-binary people.
MINSEXUAL
The exclusive sexual attraction to those who are Masculine in Nature (MIN). This means Minsexual people are attracted to men, masculine aligned and/or masculine presenting non-binary people, and potentially masculine women.
MULTISEXUAL
(PLURISEXUAL)
Someone who experiences sexual attraction to more than one gender.
NEBULASEXUAL
Someone who one cannot tell if they experience sexual attraction due to neurodivergence and or intrusive thoughts. They might want sex or a sexual relationship, but they do not know if they experience attraction.
NEPTUNIC
Someone who experiences sexual attraction to women, feminine non-binary people, and neutral non-binary people. It can also be described as sexual attraction to all except men and/or masculine-aligned non-binary people.
NINSEXUAL
The exclusive sexual attraction to those who are Nonbinary in Nature (NIN). This includes people who are non-binary, neutrois, androgyne, agender, and anyone whose gender or presentation is androgynous.
OMNISEXUAL
Someone who is sexually attracted to all or any genders, while still having a preference.
ORCHIDSEXUAL
Someone who may feel sexual attraction but does not want a sexual relationship. They may find other people sexually attractive, but lack the desire to have sex or dislike having sexual experiences.
PANSEXUAL
Someone who is sexually attracted to all genders. Many Pansexual people also describe themselves as being attracted to others based on their personality, not gender.
POLYAMOROUS
Someone who is, or desires to be in, a consensual relationship with multiple partners. Polyamory is the opposite of monogamy.
POLYSEXUAL
Someone who is sexually attracted to multiple genders, but not all genders.
POMOSEXUAL
Someone whose sexuality can not be explained through current terms or who does not bother with trying to find a term to describe it.
QUEER
Someone whose sexuality and/or gender is not heterosexual, cisgender and/or allosexual.
Queer has been used as a term of abuse against the LGBTQIA+ community, but is now often used by members of the LGBTQIA+ who have reclaimed it.
QUEERIAN
A queer person who is sexually attracted to other queer people.
QUOISEXUAL
Someone who does not understand sexual attraction, cannot tell it apart from other types of attraction, is unsure whether they experience it or not, or rejects the concept of sexual attraction as applicable to them.
RECIPROSEXUAL
(LYKIOSEXUAL)
Someone who only feels sexual attraction if they know the other person feels it towards them. They might not always reciprocate others’ attraction.
SAPPHIC
Women or women-aligned people who are attracted to other women or women-aligned people. Also known as women loving women (WLW).
SATURNIC
Someone who experiences sexual attraction to androgynous-aligned non-binary people. Mostly used by non-binary people to describe their attraction without relying on the gender binary.
UNLABELED
Someone who is part of the LGBTQIA+ community, but is unsure of, does not yet know, what label they identify with, or someone who does not want to identify with a specific label.
URANIC
Someone who experiences sexual attraction to men, masculine non-binary people, and neutral non-binary people. Can also be described as attraction to all except women and/or feminine-aligned non-binary people.
VINCIAN
(CINTHEAN)
Non-women who only experience sexual attraction to other people who are not men. This term is used to describe men or masculine-aligned nonbinary people who do not identify as female. Often used as the masculine equivalent of lesbian.
ROMANTIC ORIENTATIONS
02
Brief explanations of romantic orientations
ABROROMANTIC
Someone whose romantic attraction is fluid and changing. Abroromantic people can fluctuate between all romantic orientations, or just a few. The timing between fluctuations can also vary.
ACHILLEAN
Men or men-aligned people who are romantically attracted to other men or men-aligned people. Also known as men loving men (MLM).
AEGOROMANTIC
Someone who enjoys the concept of romance and may have romantic fantasies or enjoy romantic media but feel little to no romantic attraction in real life and may not desire a relationship.
Also known as anegoromantic or autochorisromantic.
ALLOROMANTIC
Someone who experiences romantic attraction and does not identify on the Aromantic Spectrum.
AMID
Someone who isn’t strictly Aromantic or Asexual, but is on the spectrum of both Asexuality and Aromanticism.
ANDROFLEXIBLE
Someone who is mostly romantically attracted to men but very occasionally feels romantic attraction towards other genders, or someone who always feels romantic attraction to masculinity but occasionally also towards other gender alignments.
ANDROROMANTIC
Someone who is primarily romantically attracted to masculinity. Mostly used by people who identify outside of the gender binary as the term refers only to the presentation of the person someone is attracted to and not the person themselves.
APOTHIROMANTIC
(ROMANCE REPULSED)
Someone who is repulsed by the idea of engaging in romance, or just the idea of romance in general.
AROACE
Short for Aromantic Asexual, AroAce means someone who experiences little or no romantic and sexual attraction.
AROACESPIKE
Someone who usually feels little to no romantic and sexual attraction, but occasionally has rare and sudden spikes of romantic and or sexual attraction.
AROFLUX
Someone whose romantic orientation fluctuates but generally stays on the Aromantic Spectrum. They may feel strongly Aromantic one day, and less so on another day.
AROJUMP
Someone who is normally Alloromatic but can occasionally experience rare, sudden, and intense spikes of total or near total Aromanticism for a short amount of time.
AROMANTIC
Someone who does not experience romantic attraction. They may experience sexual and/or aesthetic attraction, but not romantic attraction.
AROSPIKE
Someone who usually feels little to no romantic attraction, but occasionally has rare and sudden spikes of romantic attraction.
ATHENIAN
(MINERVAN)
Someone who does not experience at least one type of attraction. Including, but not limited to, Asexuality, Asensuality, and Aromanticism.
AUTIAROMANTIC
(AUTIARO)
Someone who feels that their autism has an affect on their romantic orientation or lack of romantic attraction. The identity is not to say that someone’s romantic identity is autism, but that someone's identity is deeply affected and interconnected with their autism.
BELLUSROMANTIC
Someone who has interest in certain romantic actions, the aesthetic of romantic relationships, and or aspects of romantic relationships, but does not feel romantic attraction and does not want a romantic relationship.
BIROMANTIC
Someone who experiences romantic attraction to more than one gender and is inclusive of all genders. Bi people can be attracted to people across the gender spectrum.
Biromantic is an umbrella term in the community including other multi-identities such as panromantic, omniromantic, etc.
BORIC
(BINARIC)
Anyone who is romantically attracted to binary individuals or who experiences non-straight romantic attraction to binary individuals. Someone who is romantically attracted to men and or women but is not straight. Boric people can also be romantically attracted to non-binary people, as the label is not mutually exclusive
CAEDROMANTIC
(CAEDOROMANTIC)
Someone who used to be Alloromantic, but is no longer due to a traumatic event. They may remain Caedromantic for the rest of their life, or eventually shift back towards their original or a new romantic identity.
CETEROROMANTIC
(SKOLIOROMANTIC)
Someone who is romantically attracted to non-binary and genderqueer people or androgynous people of various or all assigned genders at birth.
COEROMANTIC
Someone who will only experience romantic attraction to someone if they developed that feeling upon meeting them the first time. Coeromantic individuals can still become attracted to those they know, but it is more common for them to develop romantic feelings to those they don't know or have just met.
CUPIOROMANTIC
Someone who experiences little to no romantic attraction, but desires a romantic relationship with another person, or to engage in romantic behavior.
DEMIROMANTIC
Someone who does not experience romantic attraction until they have formed a strong connection with a partner.
ENBIAN
A non-binary person who is romantically attracted to other non-binary people.
FICTOROMANTIC
Someone who experiences exclusive, near exclusive, or primary romantic attraction toward fictional characters. They may be attracted to one character, genders separate from what they normally are, or are only attracted to others in a fictional sense.
FINROMANTIC
The exclusive romantic attraction to those who are Feminine in Nature (FIN). This means Finromantic people are attracted to women, feminine aligned and/or feminine presenting non-binary people, and potentially feminine men.
FRAYROMANTIC
(IGNOTAROMANTIC)
Someone who is only romantically attracted to people who they have not formed a strong emotional bond with yet. As the bond is formed, the attraction fades.
GRAYROMANTIC
Someone who experiences limited romantic attraction. They experience romantic attraction very rarely or with very low intensity. Also known as Gray-Aro or Grayaromantic.
GRAYAROACE
Someone who is both Grayromantic and Graysexual, such that they experience romantic and sexual attraction rarely or only under specific circumstances. Also known as Grayrose.
GYNEFLEXIBLE
Someone who is mostly romantically attracted to femininity but very occasionally feels romantic attraction towards people of other presentations and genders.
GYNEROMANTIC
Someone who is primarily romantically attracted to femininity. Mostly used by people who identify outside of the gender binary as unlike terms like gay or lesbian, they refer only to the presentation of the person someone is attracted to and not the person themselves. Also known as Femromantic or Gynoromantic.
HETEROFLEXIBLE
Someone who identifies as mostly Heteromantic but sometimes experiences romantic attraction to their own gender.
HETEROMANTIC
Someone who only experiences romantic attraction to people who are not of their own gender.
HOMOFLEXIBLE
Someone who identifies as mostly Homoromantic but sometimes experiences romantic attraction to other genders.
HOMOROMANTIC
Someone who only experiences romantic attraction to people of their own gender.
LITHROMANTIC
(AKOIROMANTIC)
Someone who may experience romantic attraction but does not want it reciprocated.
LUNARIC
Someone who is exclusively romantically attracted to women and female-aligned non-binary people.
MARSIC
A non-binary person who is exclusively romantically attracted to men and male-aligned non-binary people.
MINROMANTIC
The exclusive romantic attraction to those who are Masculine in Nature (MIN). This means Minromantic people are attracted to men, masculine aligned and/or masculine presenting non-binary people, and potentially masculine women.
MULTIROMANRIC
(PLURIROMANTIC)
Someone who experiences romantic attraction to more than one gender.
NEBULAROMANTIC
Someone who one cannot tell if they experience romantic attraction due to neurodivergence and or intrusive thoughts. They might want a romantic relationship, but they do not know if they experience attraction.
NEPTUNIC
Someone who experiences romantic attraction to women, feminine non-binary people, and neutral non-binary people. It can also be described as romantic attraction to all except men and/or masculine-aligned non-binary people.
NINROMANTIC
The exclusive romantic attraction to those who are Nonbinary in Nature (NIN). This includes people who are non-binary, neutrois, androgyne, agender, and anyone whose gender or presentation is androgynous.
OMNIROMANTIC
Someone who is romantically attracted to all or any genders, while still having a preference.
ORCHIDROMANTIC
Someone who may feel romantic attraction but does not want a romantic relationship. They may find other people romantically attractive, but lack the desire to have a romantic relationship or dislike having romantic experiences.
PANROMANTIC
Someone who is romantically attracted to all genders. Many Panromantic people also describe themselves as being attracted to others based on their personality, not gender.
POLYROMANTIC
Someone who is romantically attracted to multiple genders, but not all genders.
POMOROMANTIC
Someone whose romantic identity can not be explained through current terms or who does not bother with trying to find a term to describe it.
QUEERIAN
A queer person who is romantically attracted to other queer people.
QUOIROMANTIC
Someone who does not understand romantic attraction, cannot tell it apart from other types of attraction, is unsure whether they experience it or not, or rejects the concept of romantic attraction as applicable to them.
RECIPROMANTIC
(LYKIOROMANTIC)
Someone who only feels romantic attraction if they know the other person feels it towards them. They might not always reciprocate others’ attraction.
SATURNIC
Someone who experiences romantic attraction to androgynous-aligned non-binary people. Mostly used by non-binary people to describe their attraction without relying on the gender binary.
URANIC
Someone who experiences romantic attraction to men, masculine non-binary people, and neutral non-binary people. Can also be described as attraction to all except women and/or feminine-aligned non-binary people.
VINCIAN
(CINTHEAN)
Non-women who only experience romantic attraction to other people who are not men. This term is used to describe men or masculine-aligned nonbinary people who do not identify as female.
GENDER ORIENTATIONS
03
Brief explanations of genders
ABINARY
(APHORIAN)
All gender identities that are completely unrelated to masculinity, femininity and everything between the two.
ABOY
(AMASCULINE)
A person who is agender or non-binary, but has no problem with being perceived as masculine. An Aboy is not male, but is okay with people seeing them or addressing them as such.
ABROGENDER
A person whose gender is continuously changing or fluctuating and can not be correctly labeled with just one term. Someone who is Abrogender may feel as though they are always discovering new feelings about their gender.
ABSGENDER
Someone who is between, beyond or removed from cisgender/transgender dichotomy, and identifies with a gender that is neither Cisgender nor Transgender.
ACHILLEANGENDER
(ACHILLEGENDER)
A person who feels like their Achillean orientation is connected to their gender identity. They may feel disconnected from heteronormative masculinity due to its connection to male heterosexuality and its association with women.
ADHD GENDER
(ADHDIC)
Someone who feels like their gender is strongly impacted by and/or connected to their ADHD. This gender is exclusive to people who have ADHD.
AESTHETIGENDER
A type of xenogender identities which can be described by reference to a certain aesthetic, a sensual experience, or appearance.
AGENDER
Someone who identifies as not having a gender identity.
Some agender people may identify as non-binary, whereas others may identify as gender lacking, gender neutral, or as not having a gender at all.
AGENDERFLUID
A person who is fluid between identities on the Agender Spectrum. Someone who is Agenderfluid can fluctuate between other genders but returns to Agender. Some may explain it as agender being their 'base gender', or that their gender is fluid but always partly agender.
AGENDERFLUX
(LIBRAFLUX)
Someone who is Agender but has a partial connection to a different fluctuating gender. Their Agender identity is constant and outweighs the fluid part.
AGIRL
(AFEMININE)
A person who is agender or non-binary, but has no problem with being perceived as feminine. An Agirl is not female, but is okay with people seeing them or addressing them as such.
AMBONIC
Someone who is both a man, a woman, and neither
AMICAGENDER
Someone whose gender changes depending on who they are with at the time, similar to people who use mirror pronouns.
ANARCHOGENDER
Someone whose gender is characterized by a rejection of the gender binary and its social hierarchy, or someone who feels that their anarchist beliefs affects their perception of gender. It could also mean that one's gender is anarchy.
ANDRODGYNE
Someone who identifies as simultaneously male and female or in between male and female. Androgyne is an identity under the non-binary umbrella.
ANDRODGYNOS
A Jewish gender identity that is typically used to refer to intersex people with both masculine and feminine anatomical traits. It is most commonly used by non-binary and intersex Jewish people.
ANONBINARY
Someone who is neither binary nor Nonbinary. Anonbinary can include identities that aren't defined by how they relate to the gender binary.
ANTIBINARY
Someone who rejects western concepts of gender and the gender binary. This term can only be used by people affected by European imperialism, such as Indigenous, Brown, Asian, and Black people
APAGENDER
(GENDER APATHETIC)
Someone who doesn't identify as any particular gender and does not care as being seen and or known as a certain gender. They may have a gender and just don't particularly identify with it or care for it.
APOGENDER
Someone who feels not only genderless but also entirely removed from the concept of gender.
APORAGENDER
Someone who is neither masculine, feminine or in between the two, but has a gender.
ARTEMIAN
Someone whose gender is feminine-aligned. This includes those who are partially fingendered, who are connected to femininity, or whose gender experiences are similar to that of fingendered people.
ATRINARY
Someone whose gender is unrelated to masculinity, femininity, neutrality, androgyny, or anything between the four.
AURORIAN
A Nonbinary person whose gender identity is fluid or fluctuating.
AUTIGENDER
Someone who feels that their autism has an affect on their gender orientation. The identity is not to say that someone’s gender is autism, but that someone's identity is deeply affected and interconnected with their autism.
AY’LONIT
A Jewish gender identity that is typically used to refer to AFAB people who exhibit masculine traits. Although it was historically used to refer to intersex women who were infertile, it is now most commonly used by Transgender, Nonbinary and Intersex Jewish people.
AZURGIRL
(MINGIRL)
A Jewish gender identity that is typically used to refer to AFAB people who exhibit masculine traits. Although it was historically used to refer to intersex women w
BIGENDER
Someone who identifies as two distinct genders.They may identify as both genders at once, or they may switch between the two.
BOYFLUX
Someone who mostly identifies as male but also experiences fluctuation in their gender identity. For example, sometimes they may feel strongly masculine and other times less so. Other terms for Boyflux include Guyflux and Manflux.
CISGENDER
Cisgender is a term for people whose gender identity fits with the sex they were assigned at birth. Cisgender can therefore be used to describe people who are not transgender.
DEMIANDROGYNE
Someone whose gender identity partially connects to being androgynous. A demi-androgynous person may also identify as non-binary, genderqueer or transgender.
DEMIBOY
Someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man or boy.They may also identify as non-binary, genderqueer or transgender.
Other terms for Demiboy include Demiman or Demimale.
DEMIGENDER
Someone who experiences only a partial connection to a specific gender identity. Many Demigender people also consider themselves to be Nonbinary.
DEMIGIRL
Someone who partially identifies as a woman or girl, but not wholly. They may also identify as non-binary, genderqueer or transgender.
Other terms for Demigirl include Demiwoman or Demifemale.
GENDERQUEER
Someone who identifies outside of the binary genders of male and female. Genderqueer is also an umbrella term for people whose gender expression and/or identity does not align with the gender binary.
GENDERFLUID
Someone whose gender is not fixed but can move fluidly along the spectrum from masculinity to femininity. Their gender may fluctuate throughout the day, over weeks or months, or depending on their environment.
GENDERFLUX
Someone whose gender varies in intensity over time. Genderflux can be seen as a form of gender fluidity and Genderflux people may also identify as transgender, genderqueer, or non-binary.
GIRLFLUX
Someone who mostly identifies as female but whose gender intensity fluctuates. Sometimes they may feel strongly feminine and other times less so. Another term for Girlflux is Womanflux.
GRAYGENDER
Someone who is ambivalent about their gender and who usually identifies outside of the gender binary. Graygender people are not entirely without a gender identity, they may just not be invested in the concept of gender and therefore feel less of an inclination to express it.
INTERSEX
Someone who is born with a variation of sex characteristics which do not fit the typical male and female. These variations can be: chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones or genitals.
Some people may be identified as intersex from birth, others may find out later in life, and some . . people may never learn that they are intersex.
METAGENDER
Someone who does not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth but who also does not identify as Transgender. It was initially used as a technical term for something being outside of or transcending the gender binary.
NEOGENDER
Any gender that was defined or coined after the year 2000. The prefix neo means new in latin and is used to reflect the recent developments into the concept of gender.
NEUTROIS
Someone who identifies with having a neutral or null gender. Neutrois is an umbrella term, with each person experiencing Neutrois differently.
NONBINARY
Someone who does not identify with the binary genders of male and female.
Non binary is also an umbrella term for anyone who does not fit within the gender binary. Other terms such as Agender and Genderqueer may come under th. Nonbinary umbrella, but are also terms in their own right.
PANGENDER
Someone who identifies with all genders. A Pangender person may identify with other nonbinary or binary identities and their identity may fluctuate between other labels.
POLYGENDER
Someone who identifies with multiple or all genders. Polygender is also an umbrella term that includes labels such as Bigender, Pangender, etc.
TRANSGENDER
Transgender refers to someone whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth.
Some trans people transition and change their name, are prescribed hormones, and have surgery, while some may only do some a few things, or . other trans people may not transition . at all. A trans person's identity is not . determined by how, or if, they transition.
TRIGENDER
Someone who experiences three distinct gender identities, either simultaneously, or moving fluidly between them. The three genders can be both binary or non binary and Trigender people can also identify as Transgender, Nonbinary, or Multigender.
THIRD GENDER
Someone who does not identify with the western concept of binary gender and instead identifies with a gender identify from a different culture or society.
TWO SPIRIT
Someone of indigenous North American descent that does not identify with the gender binary, but instead with a third gender. Two spirited people possess both a masculine and a feminine spirit and exhibit the roles of both genders in their society.
XENOGENDERS
A Xenogender is any gender that lies outside of the binary perception of gender. Instead of being connected to the masculine and feminine aspects of society, a Xenogender is depicted in reference to a thing, object, or feeling.
QUEER
TERMINOLOGY
04
Acronyms, words, and phrases that you might need to know
ACRONYMS
MLM
Men who Love Men
WLW
Women who Love Women
MSM
Men who have Sex with Men
WSW
Women who have Sex with Women
ACRONYMS
MTF
Male To Female
AMAB people who transition to Female
FTM
Female To Male
AFAB people who transition to Male
AESTHETIC ATTRACTION
A type of attraction involving an appreciation for someone who is aesthetically pleasing that is unrelated to romantic or sexual attraction. A person can be aesthetically attracted to someone’s look or style while not being romantically or sexually attracted to them.
AGAB
(ASSIGNED GENDER AT BIRTH)
AFAB
Someone who was assigned Female at Birth
AMAB
Someone who was assigned Male at Birth
ALLOSEXISM
The idea that everyone experiences and or should experience sexual attraction leading to discrimination of people on the asexual spectrum.
ALLY
A person who is not part of the LGBTQIA+ community, but who supports and honors sexual and gender diversity and challenges bigoted remarks and behaviors.
ALTEROUS ATTRACTION
A type of attraction involving a desire for emotional intimacy with another person that is not necessarily romantic or platonic, but something in-between
AMATONORMATIVITY
The idea that every person desires a monogamous sexual and romantic partnership. This idea can be harmful and possibly discriminatory as it excludes polyamorous, asexual and aromantic people, among others.
ANDROGYNOUS
Having physical elements of both femininity and masculinity, whether expressed through sex, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation. Androgyne is another term for an androgynous individual.
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION
LAWS
Federal, state, and local laws that prohibit the government and/or private organizations from discriminating against someone based on certain personal characteristics, such as race, religion, age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, and or gender identity or expression.
APHOBIA
Negative attitudes and prejudice against Asexuality and Aromanticism that is often rooted in ignorance, outdated medical knowledge, and heteronormativity. Aphobia may include viewing Asexuality or Aromanticism as a mental disorder and Asexual or Aromantic people as cold and/or incapable of love, as well as excluding them from the queer community.
ASAB
(ASSIGNED SEX AT BIRTH)
AFAB
Someone who was assigned Female at Birth
AMAB
Someone who was assigned Male at Birth
AIAB/AXAB
Someone who was assigned Intersex at Birth
A-SPECTRUM
An umbrella term that refers to the Aromantic Spectrum and the Asexual Spectrum.
Someone who says they are A-Spec could identify along either the Asexual or Aromantic Spectrum, or both.
APLATONIC
Someone who does not experience platonic attraction. Aplatonic people may lack a desire to form friendships with specific people, or difficulty forming friendships in general as a result of neurodivergence or trauma.
AAA (TRIPLE A)
Someone who is Aromantic, Asexual, and Agender. It can be used for any individual who identifies with all three spectrums.
BIPHOBIA
The discrimination against or harassment of a Bisexual person based on their sexuality.
BINDING
The process of tightly wrapping one’s chest in order to minimize the appearance of having breasts, often by using a binder.
One must bind themselves carefully, with appropriate materials, and for reasonable periods of time in order to avoid discomfort and potential negative health impacts. Unsafe binding can lead to negative health outcomes, such as broken ribs and trouble breathing.
BIOESSENTIALISM
Reliance or weaponization of biology in an attempt to disprove trans people’s genders. Common bioessentialist arguments reduce people to their chromosomes (though there are more than 30 chromosome combinations that people have); their genitalia (though there are many natural variations; or their binary gender (though gender and sex are not binary).
BIPOC
Acronym for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. It acknowledges the specific histories of Black and African American, Latino/a/x, Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), and Native and Indigenous people within the United States without collapsing them into a homogenous category of people of color.
BOTTOM SURGERY
Surgery performed on an individual’s reproductive system as a part of gender-affirming surgery. Not all trans people undergo medical interventions as part of their transition. As with any other aspect of transition, trans people retain the right not to discuss their surgical history, and surgery does not define gender.
BUTCH
A person who is masculine of center in dress, attitude, and/or presentation. It is often, but not exclusively, used in a lesbian context.
CHOSEN FAMILY
Also known as found family, people who support an LGBTQIA+ person, who are not biologically related, and who often fill the role of the biological family if an LGBTQ+ person’s family is not supportive of them.
CISHET
A person who is Cisgender and Heterosexual
Example: a cis and straight man is cishet, but a trans and straight man or a cis and gay man is not
CISNORMATIVITY
The assumption that everyone is Cisgender and that being Cisgender is superior to all other genders. This includes the often implicitly held idea that being Cisgender is the norm and that other genders are “different” or “abnormal.”
CIS-SEXISM
Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination on the basis of sex, specifically towards transgender and gender non-conforming people.
CLOSETED
Someone who is aware of their queer identity but not yet ready to share it with some or all people. A person can remain closeted for an indefinite amount of time. People remain closeted for many reasons including being in a state of questioning or their coming out being a threat to their health or safety. A person can be closeted about some parts of their identity while out about others.
COMING OUT
The process of disclosing one’s sexual orientation or gender identity to other people.
COMPULSORY HETEROSEXUALITY
The pattern of queer people, especially women, being socially conditioned by our heteronormative society to engage in straight behaviours. Comphet causes queer people to assign feelings of desire toward whomever they feel they should – in most young women’s case, a celebrity or other man that is unlikely to reciprocate their feelings.
CRASH LANDING
Rejection or disqualification from a clinical sex change program due to “gender role inappropriateness” or being “somatically inappropriate”
CROSS-DRESSER
An individual who dresses in clothing that is culturally associated with members of the “other” sex. Most cross-dressers are heterosexual and conduct their cross-dressing on a part-time basis. Cross-dressers cross-dress for a variety of reasons, including pleasure, a relief from stress and a desire to express “opposite” sex feelings to the larger society. Cross-dressing might also be termed gender non-conforming behavior.
CYBER BULLYING
Harassment or intimidation conducted through electronic communications methods such as social media platforms, direct messages, and text messages.
DEADNAME
The name a Transgender person was given at their birth. Also known as a birth name. Using a Trans person’s deadname after they have informed you of their chosen name is called deadnaming and can be very hurtful and offensive. Deadnaming a person is only acceptable if it is to protect their safety or if you have been given express permission by the Trans person.
DISCRIMINATION
The different and unfair treatment of certain groups of people based on specific characteristics, such as race, religion, age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
DETRANSITIONER
A person who at one point in their life identified as Transgender and took actions to socially or medically transition, but made the decision to undo their transition and re-come out as their AGAB.
Most people who choose to detransition do so due to social pressure and backlash, with only 5% of detransitioners naming their reason for detransitioning as no longer identifying as Transgender
DRAG
The theatrical performance of one or multiple genders (often including makeup, costume, dance, lip-syncing, and temporary body modifications). Performers who present in a feminine manner are called Drag Queens, while performers who present in a masculine manner are called Drag Kings. These performances often push traditional boundaries of gender presentation, calling into question societally defined gender roles.
ESTROGEN
A steroid hormone associated with the female reproductive organs and is responsible for developing female sexual characteristics. Those taking estrogen (feminizing hormones) may see some breast growth and decreased libido.
FEMME
A Lesbian that dresses or acts in a stereotypically feminine way. A Femme Lesbian does not have to identify as female.
GENDER
A set of social, physical, psychological and emotional traits, often influenced by societal expectations, that classify an individual as feminine, masculine, androgynous or other.
GENDER AFFIRMING
An action or procedure that helps or enables a Transgender person to feel more comfortable with their gender identity.
Examples: Gender Reassignment Surgery, Binding, Packing, Correct pronoun usage
GENDER BINARY
A system in which gender is constructed into two strict categories of male or female. Gender identity is expected to align with the sex assigned at birth and gender expressions and roles fit traditional expectations.
GENDER DYSPHORIA
Clinically significant distress caused when a person's assigned birth gender is not the same as the one with which they identify. Gender Dysphoria is a medical requirement to undertake Gender Affirming Surgery in some places.
GENDER ENVY
A term primarily used by transgender people to describe an individual they aspire to be like. It often refers to having envy for an individual’s expression of gender (for example, wanting the physical features, voice, mannerisms, style, etc., of a specific gender). Gender Envy is sometimes experienced by people expressing themselves outside society’s gender stereotypes.
GENDER EUPHORIA
A term coined by trans community members to refer to the happiness and joy of openly and proudly living in your preferred gender role, an antidote to the pathologizing and bleak connotations of “gender dysphoria.
GENDER EXPANSIVE
Those who do not follow gender stereotypes, or who expand ideas of gender expression or gender identity. Gender expansive does not mean Nonbinary and Cisgender people can be gender expansive as well. It is important to respect and use the terms people use for themselves, regardless of any prior associations or ideas about those terms.
GENDER EXPRESSION
The outward manifestation of internal gender identity, through clothing, hairstyle, mannerisms and other characteristics.
GENDER IDENTITY
An individual’s inner sense of their own gender. Gender identity is not necessarily the same as sex assigned or presumed at birth. Everyone has a gender identity, even cisgender people.
GENDER NEUTRAL
Not gendered. Can refer to language (including pronouns and salutations/titles--see Gender-neutral salutations or titles), spaces (like bathrooms), or other aspects of society (like colors or occupations).
GENDER NON-CONFORMITY
Behaving in a way that does not match social stereotypes about female or male gender, usually through dress or physical appearance.
GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERY
An operation or procedure which physically transforms the genitals using plastic surgery. Also known as Sex Reassignment Surgery or a Sex Change Operation.
MTF is called a vaginoplasty while FTM is termed either a genitoplasty or a phalloplasty.
GENDER ROLES
The social expectation of how an individual should look or behave, often based upon their sex assigned at birth.
GENDERED LANGUAGE
Commonly understood as language that has a bias towards a particular sex or social gender. This can lead to women being excluded or rendered invisible.
Example: The way titles are used. “Mr.” can refer to any man, regardless of marriage status, whereas “Miss” and “Mrs.” define women by whether they are married, which until quite recently meant defining them by their relationships with men.
HARASSMENT
Actions or words that harm or distress a person, and do not otherwise serve a legitimate purpose. Harassment often interferes with the ability to take full advantage of educational opportunities.
HATE CRIME
A crime that is motivated by personal characteristics such as race, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Under federal law and some state and local laws, hate crimes may be investigated by additional law enforcement personnel and can carry additional penalties.
HETERONORMATIVITY
The assumption that everyone is Heterosexual and that heterosexuality is superior to all other sexualities. This includes the often implicitly held idea that heterosexuality is the norm and that other sexualities are “different” or “abnormal.”
HETERO-SEXISM
The assumption that sexuality between people of different sexes is normal, standard, superior or universal and other sexual orientations are substandard, inferior, abnormal, marginal or invalid.
HOMOPHOBIA
A fear of or hostility toward queer people, often expressed as discrimination, harassment and violence.
HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY
A type of gender-affirming treatment that allows trans and gender-expansive people to medically transition or feel more at home in their bodies. Many intersex people take HRT to balance the naturally occurring levels of estrogen and testosterone in their bodies. Benefits of such therapy can include improved mental and physical wellness, and reduced anxiety and dysphoria, for those who experience it.
HORMONE BLOCKERS
Also referred to as Puberty Blockers, this is a form of gender-affirming medical care which allows young trans and gender-expansive people to prevent the potentially negative outcomes of going through a puberty that does not match their gender identity.
INTERSECTIONALITY
The overlap of social categorizations or identities such as race and ethnicity, sexuality, gender, disability, geography, and class which exist in an individual or group of people that can contribute to discrimination or disadvantage.
INTERNALIZED
HOMOPHOBIA
When a person, whether consciously or unconsciously accepts homophobic biases and applies these biases to themselves. It can happen to anyone, regardless of sexual orientation, though most studies of internalized homophobia have looked at people who identify as LGBTQIA+. This occurs as a result of the assumption that all people are or should be heterosexual.
LESBIPHOBIA
The intersection of misogyny and homophobia experienced exclusively by Lesbians. The fear or hatred of Lesbians based on their sexuality, often expressed as discrimination, harassment and violence. Lesbiphobia also includes the explotation and fetishization of Lesbians through the porn industry.
LGBTQIA+
The slowly expanding acronym for the queer community
L: Lesbian
G: Gay
B: Bisexual, Bigender
T: Transgender
Q: Queer
I: Intersex
A: Agender, Asexual, Aromantic
Plus: All other Queer people who are not named
with a letter
LIVED EXPERIENCE
To value the personal experiences of individuals as much as quantitative data. For example, believing narratives of discrimination against LGBTQ+ people persisting even if they counter larger narratives of acceptance.
MASC
Having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with men or conventionally regarded as male.
MIRROR PRONOUNS
A person who uses mirror pronouns wants to be referred to with the same pronouns as the person talking.
MISGENDER
(MISPRONOUN)
To refer to an individual using a word, especially a pronoun or form of address, which does not correctly reflect their gender. This may be unintentional and without ill intent or can be a maliciously employed expression of bias. Regardless of intent, misgendering has a harmful impact.
NEOPRONOUNS
Neopronouns are pronouns created to be specifically gender neutral, such as xe/xem, ze/zir, and it/its.
Example: Xe are my friend! I love Xem!
NEUROQUEER
Someone whose gender identity, sexuality, or romantic orientation is heavily influenced by neurodivergence and how they express and experience it.
NOUNPRONOUNS
Nounpronouns are neopronouns that use a noun as a replacement for a traditional pronoun, such as sun/suns, doll/dolls, or bun/buns.
It is a myth that Nounpronouns were created on tumblr to mock Trans people, but they are currently most widely used in online spaces, as many Nounpronoun users fear backlash from asking for them to be used in public.
Example: Sun looks very nice today. Suns hair is particularly shiny.
OPPRESSION
The systematic exploitation of one social group by another for its own benefit. It involves institutional control, ideological domination, and the promulgation of the dominant group’s culture on the oppressed. Oppression = Prejudice + Power (the “isms”).
ORIENTATION
A person's attraction to other people. This attraction may be sexual (sexual orientation) and/or romantic (romantic orientation). These terms refers to a person's sense of identity based on their attractions, or lack thereof.
OUT
Someone who openly expresses, or does not hide, their sexual orientation or gender identity.
OUTING
Informing people who do not know about a person’s sexuality or gender identity without the express permission of the person being discussed. Outing can be accidental or purposeful, but is always something to be aware of as it can endanger the safety of a closeted person.
PASSING
An individual’s ability to be regarded by others in accordance with one’s preferred gender role in a socio-cultural context. Passing generally refers to the effort made by members of subordinated groups to be accepted as members of dominant groups
PLATONIC PARTNERSHIP
Relationships where there is a high level of mutual commitment which can include shared life decisions, shared living arrangements, and co-parenting of children, but do not include sexual or romantic feelings. These partnerships can include more than two people. Like Allosexual and Alloromantic people, ace and aro spectrum people may be monogamous or polyamorous.
PREJUDICE
A set of negative beliefs or feelings that are generalized to apply to a whole group of people and any member of that group. Anyone can be prejudiced toward another individual or group.
PRIDE
The idea, and events celebrating the idea, that people should be proud of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
PRONOUNS
The words used to refer to a person other than their name. Common pronouns are they/them, he/him, and she/her. Pronouns are sometimes called Personal Gender Pronouns, or PGPs. For those who use pronouns--and not all people do--they are not preferred, they are essential.
QUEERBAITING
A marketing technique in which media creators or executives allude to the presence of LGBTQ+ characters or relationships within their content, but fail to include actual representation so as not to lose non-LGBTQIA+ viewers.
QUEERPLATONIC
Characterized by a desire to have a queerplatonic relationship with an individual in particular. These relationships include more, or deeper, commitment than simple friendship but are not romantic or sexual in nature for those involved.
QUESTIONING
A term that describes someone who is unsure of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. This person may be queer and unsure of what label fits them, or simply diving into self-discovery. Someone who is questioning does not have to find out they are queer.
SEX
Separate from gender, this term refers to the cluster of biological, chromosomal, and anatomical features associated with maleness and femaleness in the human body.
SEXUALITY
(SEXUAL ORIENTATION)
An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people. An individual’s sexual orientation is independent of their gender identity.
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION
THEORY
The idea that many of the institutions, expectations, and identities that we consider natural have been created and shaped by societies and people who came before us. Things that are socially constructed still have very real influences and consequences, even if they are not based on an inherent truth. Social constructs can be reconstructed in order to better fit the society and culture they govern.
SPECTRUM
A scale with one or multiple axis that is used to describe a transition between different properties.
STEALTH
Also termed “woodworking,” this term refers to (usually) post-operative Transgender people who are able to pass as Cisgender to most people
STEREOTYPE
An assumed label, usually used negatively towards a person or a group of people, race, religion, or orientation. For example, gender roles are stereotypes, where the man is perceived as the “breadwinner” and the woman is perceived as the “housewife.”
STUD
A Black or Latinx Lesbian who dresses or acts in a stereotypically masculine way but does not identify as male. (Butch)
T4T
Trans 4 Trans. A Transgender person who is only interested in emotional, romantic, intimate, and/or sexual partnerships with other trans people. It centers the beauty of being trans by celebrating the diversity of trans experience. T4T relationships allow trans people space from having to explain their genders or experiences to cisgender partners.
TERF
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist. The term TERF originated online in 2008 from blogger Viv Smythe; however exclusion of trans people--especially trans women--from feminist organizing spaces has been gaining traction since the 1970s. TERFs primarily believe that trans women are not “real women,” and are trying to invade women’s spaces. TERFs work aggressively to deny the existence and identity of transgender people. They often refer to themselves as gender-critical feminists.
TESTOSTERONE
The primary male hormone responsible for regulating sex differentiation, producing male sex characteristics, spermatogenesis, and fertility.Those taking testosterone (masculinizing hormones) may grow more facial/body hair and notice their voices deepening.
TOP SURGERY
Surgery performed on an individual’s chest/breasts as a part of gender-affirming surgery. For AFAB people, this can be a chest reduction or a full removal. For AMAB people, this can be an increase in chest size using saline or silicone.
TRANSITION
A shift over time from occupying the social role of one gender to that of another and to the medical procedures that sometimes accompany that shift. Transition may or may not include medical or legal aspects such as taking hormones, having surgeries, or changing identity documents to reflect one’s gender identity.
TRANSMEDICALISM
Also known as truscum, transmedicalists are people, both trans and cisgender, who believe gender dysphoria and the desire to medically transition are criteria to being legitimately trans.
TRANSMISOGYNY
Misogyny directed against trans and gender-expansive women that often manifests itself in the form of prejudice and bias.
TRANSPHOBIA
The fear or hatred of transgender people based on their gender, often expressed as discrimination, harassment and violence.
QUEER HISTORY
05
Important dates, events, and phrases from queer history
BLACK CAT TAVERN
PROTESTS
On New Year’s Eve 1967, undercover cops tore apart couples celebrating at midnight and began beating them. The brutality spread to a neighboring bar where police attacked the bar’s owner and two bartenders. 14 people were arrested and 2 men were forced to register as sex offenders for kissing. On February 11, 1967, 200+ demonstrators formed a picket line outside of The Black Cat Tavern to peacefully protest against police abuse. Though many police were dispatched to the protest, it remained charged, but peaceful.
BLACK NITE BRAWL
On August 5, 1961, four sailors entered Black Nite, a gay bar in Milwaukee, on a dare. They started a fight with the bouncer, only to be chased out of the bar by drag queen Josie Carter, who knocked one of the men unconscious with a bottle. The men returned with reinforcements and began to tear the bar apart, but were met with stiff resistance by bar patrons. The sailors were arrested but the charges were later dropped due to “lack of evidence.” The bar suffered significant damage from the brawl and was eventually demolished for the extension of St. Paul Avenue.
COMPTON CAFETERIA RIOT
In the summer of 1966, a Gene Compton’s cafeteria worker called the San Francisco Police Department. When a police officer tried to arrest a trans woman, she threw a cup of coffee in his face. The LGBTQ community came together the following morning for what is now known as the Compton’s Cafeteria Riots and picketed Gene’s. It resulted in the creation of the Transsexual Counseling Unit in 1968.
COOPER’S DO-NUTS RIOT
At the Cooper’s Do-Nuts Riot of 1959, Drag queens clashed with LAPD and threw donuts at officers who were harassing and arresting anyone whose gender identity didn’t match their gender presentation. It was one of the first LGBTQ uprisings in the United States.
DEWEY’S RESTAURANT SIT-IN
On April 25, 1965, Dewey’s restaurant in Philadelphia denied service to 150 people who appeared to be queer. 3 teenagers refused to leave and were later arrested, along with Clark Polak, leader of the homophile organization Janus Society, after he offered to help the group obtain a lawyer. Janus Society members protested outside of the restaurant for the next five days; on May 2, three more people staged a second sit-in at Dewey’s. This time, the protesters weren’t arrested and instead left the restaurant voluntarily a few hours later. Dewey’s agreed to stop denying service to LGBTQIA+ people.
THE DYKE MARCH
The Dyke March first started in 1993 when over 20,000 lesbian activists from the Lesbian Avengers, ACT Up, and Puss N’ Boots, marched in Washington, DC without a permit and held a huge vulva like a puppet to protest anti-LGBTQ laws. Since then, the Dyke March has never held a permit.
JULIUS SIP-IN
In 1966, when bars in New York didn’t allow for LGBTQ people to get served in bars, a group of gay men from the Mattachine Society challenged authority by organizing a sip-in at Julius at the West Village Tavern. Four activists told the bartender that they were gay and the bar denied them service. The case went to court and it was declared that NY State Liquor Authority could not deny service to gay people.
PATCH BAR ‘FLOWER
POWER’ PROTEST
On August 17, 1968, undercover cops left the bar and returned with several uniformed officers for backup. They began to screen the crowd, looking for IDs that didn’t “match” the holder’s outward appearance. Police arrested 2 patrons for lewd conduct, enraging the DJ, Glaze, who knew the men were innocent. He led a crowd to buy massive quantities of flowers from a nearby shop owned by one of the bar’s customers. The crowd then went to the police station and camped in the waiting room, remaining until bail was posted for the arrested men.
STONEWALL RIOT
In June of 1969, when police dragged employees and patrons out of the bar, a series of riots and confrontations against the cops took place outside the bar for six days and involved thousands of people. One year after the riots, thousands of people marched from Stonewall Inn to Central Park, resulting in the first gay pride parade in NYC. In 2016, the Obama administration named the bar a national monument
WHITE NIGHT RIOTS
When Harvey Milk, California’s first openly gay elected official, was assassinated in 1979, thousands of protestors rioted in San Francisco’s Castro District due to the lenient sentencing of Dan White for Milk’s murder. The White Night Riots were the most violent rebellions since the Stonewall riots ten years prior.